COP28 has begun. Cities, regions and other subnationals are about to show the world how we are leading on the climate fight. And we are ready to fight together.
Thank you for taking this COP28 journey with the Local Governments and Municipal Authorities Constituency (LGMA). We're excited bring you an inside view on cities and regions taking action at COP28. The LGMA COP28 Daily Update is your resource for exclusive coverage of the city and region climate agenda, live session webcasts from the Multilevel Action & Urbanization Pavilion, announcements and interviews of local and subnational actors on climate action. Welcome!
The Multilevel Action & Urbanization Pavilion is your home for cities and regions in the blue zone.
Offering more than 70 sessions over the full two weeks of COP, we invite you to explore the Pavilion agenda to help plan your visit or your livestream experience!
Every single session in the Multilevel Action & Urbanization Pavilion will be broadcast via a livestream. Bookmark our YouTube livestream today so you don't miss a session!
We are thrilled to welcome these distinguished speakers (in alphabetical order): Al Gore, Nobel Laureate and former US Vice President; Frank Cownie, Mayor of Des Moines, USA and President of ICLEI; Gino Van Begin, ICLEI Secretary General; Jader Filho, Minister of Cities, Brazil; Jemima Gordon-Duff, Deputy Director of International Climate Change, Government of Scotland; Katrin Jammeh, Mayor of Malmö, Sweden and ICLEI First Vice President; Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director, UN-Habitat; Nina Hachigan, US Special Representative for City and State Diplomacy; Renato Casagrande, Governor, State of Espirito Santo, Brazil and Chair of Brasil Verde Consortium and Yuriko Koike, Governor, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Japan.
The Multilevel Action & Urbanization Pavilion is co-convened by ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, in its role as the focal point of the LGMA Constituency, and UN-Habitat (The United Nations Human Settlements Programme), and co-hosted by the Scottish Government and Bloomberg Philanthropies in partnership with the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) and C40 Cities, and is supported by other partners.
What's on tap tomorrow
Tomorrow our daily updates will begin in earnest, and you'll hear the latest from the LGMA Press Conference, first interventions and the cities and regions stories of COP28. See you there!
DON'T FORGET
Register for the Ministerial Meeting on Urbanization and Climate Change
The second Ministerial Meeting on Urbanization & Climate Change will convene on 6 December at COP28. Ministers of Housing, Urban Development, Environment and/or Finance, local and regional leaders, financial institutions, and relevant non-government stakeholders will discuss accelerated local climate finance. Engagement of subnational leaders is facilitated through LGMA constituency.
