With a delegation of over 35 elected officials, including the presence of the political leadership of the Global Taskforce such as Mayor of Hoboken and member of the ICLEI Board of Directors Ravinder Bhalla, a delegation of Kenyan county governors on behalf of ORU FOGAR and Regions4, a strong presence of CLGF members, and local and regional governments from the United States such as the Governor of Hawai’i Josh Green.
The 2023 Urban 20 (U20) Summit will be taking place in Ahmedabad from 7-8 July 2023. The U20 seeks to coordinate a joint position among the mayors of both G20 and non-G20 major cities, to inform and nurture the discussions of national leaders at the G20.
The Platform on High-Impact for Localization Policies was launched in the framework of the UCLG Retreat 2023 on February 22. This is a tool to collect localization initiatives and projects to be showcased at the United Nations SDG Summit in September 2023.
Since 2017, the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments has facilitated a report to the High-Level Political Forum of the United Nations (HLPF) on the role of local and regional governments (LRGs) in the localization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The next report will be presented in July 2023.
In the framework of the 2022 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF), the constituency of local and regional governments reached a milestone: the celebration of the fifth Local and Regional Governments Forum, which cements the space for our constituency in the global review and follow-up of the New Urban Agenda.
The 2022 ECOSOC Partnership Forum will be held on 2 February 2022 on the “Building back better from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”.