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Following an interesting session of the Open Working Group in January, the 8th and last session of the Open Working Group - OWG#8- will take place on 3-7 February. The session will deal with 3 areas:  

Taking advantage of the presence of many of the networks in Brussels for the Cities of Tomorrow Conference, the Global Taskforce will hold a meeting in Brussels on18 and 19 February at CEMR offices (

The seventh session of the UN General Assembly's Open Working Group (OWG) came to an end after five days of discussion among member states, UN representatives and partners.

It would comply with paragraph 247 of the Rio Declaration, which underlines that goals should « adress and be focused on priority areas for the achievement of sustainable development » and « global in nature, and universally applicable to al

Participants at ‘Sustainable Cities Days' have called for a stand-alone goal on sustainable urbanization that is transformative, progressively measurable and builds on past successes.

The members of the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Leaders gathered in New York on 13 December at the invitation of UN Habitat, the Group of Friends of sustainable cities and UCLG.