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The conference will boost scientific research on the role of cities in combatting climate change to support the implementation of the Paris Agreement, the New Urban Agenda and the SDGs. At its session in Bangkok on 20 October 2016, the…
The pioneering new platform “Localizing the SDGs” will allow local governments to share knowledge on how to localize the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Local and regional governments now have a place to go to learn from one another…
Local and regional government networks of the Global Taskforce and their members will showcase the work that cities and regions are doing to tackle climate change, and continue their global advocacy for improved local climate financing. The 22nd…
On 16th October 2016, on the eve of the Third UN Conference of Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), over a thousand representatives of local and regional governments gathered in Quito for the World Assembly of Local and…
From Bogotá to Quito: local and regional governments celebrate the New Urban Agenda and call on UN Member States to #Listen2Cities at Habitat IIIOn Friday, 14 of October 2016, over 800 hundred locally elected leaders gathered for the World Assembly…
Local and regional governments are set to make a splash at Habitat III with the World Assembly of Local and Regional Governments, the Local and Regional Government Lounge, and a range of innovative side-events at this major global conference…