About the Local Governments and Municipal Authorities Constituency

The voice of cities and regions in the climate negotiation process.

About the LGMA

At the Earth Summit in 1992, nine stakeholder groups, including local authorities, were designated as essential partners in society for the implementation of the global sustainability agenda. The Local Governments and Municipal Authorities (LGMA) Constituency has represented networks of local and regional governments at the processes under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since the first Conference of Parties (COP) in 1995.

LGMA Partners and Members

The LGMA works on on behalf of the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments, a joint global policy advocacy initiative of the major international networks of local governments, in the area of climate.

UNFCCC Accredited Organizations include:

Other participating networks include:

Advocacy Outcomes

Cities and regions have become important global players in the climate negotiations process.

Paris Agreement recognizes the role cities

The Paris Agreement, in its preamble, recognizes the importance of the engagement of all levels of government. The fact that 185 Parties out of the 197 Parties to the UNFCCC have ratified the Paris Agreement establishes a strong indication of the momentum towards strengthening multilevel governance on climate action.

Talanoa Dialogues at COP23

Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogues are developed as a bottom-up, pro-active and immediate response to the COP23 decision in 2017 to convene year-long, inclusive Talanoa Dialogues.

Katowice enshrines Talanoa Dialogues

COP24 in Katowice invited Parties to consider the outcome, inputs and outputs of the Talanoa Dialogue in preparing their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and in their efforts to enhance pre-2020 implementation and ambition.

COP25: Desired Outcomes

For this Chilean COP held in Madrid, the focus will be on building up the ambition for revised NDCs in 2020. Local governments will be showing their aligned actions and commitments to advance towards this important deadline.

LGMA Focal Point

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability acts as the LGMA Focal Point. ICLEI is a global network of cities, regions and towns committed to sustainability.