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“A powerful signal,” said ICLEI President Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, Mayor of Malmö, Sweden, regarding the European Commission’s endorsement of CHAMP.

Governor of California Gavin Newsom and Governor of Pará Helder Barbalho weigh in on subnational strength ahead of COP30.

Highlights included Bloomberg’s announcement of a new USD 168 million commitment to strengthen local climate leadership and the European Union’s endorsement of the CHAMP Coalition.

Philip Yang warns that the cost of climate action in cities is high—but the price of inaction is even greater. He argues that the urban and climate agendas must converge and proposes three [...]

Before the world’s heads of state gather at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, in November 2025, a major pre-event will set the stage for what’s to come – one that may well shape the future of global [...]

On World Cities Day, a document released by one of the COP30 Special Envoys, Philip Yang, provides transparency, empowers and enables action by stakeholders to implement mitigation and adaptation [...]

We are in a new era of climate action and ambition. Countries are setting national climate targets – and plans to achieve them – that differ in pace and scale to any that have come before.

In this episode we're talking to Yunus Arıkan, Director of Global Advocacy at ICLEI, to look at how local government is at the centre of global climate action, and why the path to 1.5°C runs [...]

Launched by the NDC Partnership Support Unit and Asian Development Bank, it equips national governments to map existing investment frameworks, identify key barriers to subnational investment, [...]

This session will bring together representatives from the European Union, global institutions, and networks within the Local Governments and Municipal Authorities Constituency (LGMA) to exchange [...]