Delivered by Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, Mayor of Malmö, Sweden | ICLEI President
11 NOV, 16h30
COP30 Urbanisation and Climate Ministerial Closing Plenary
Excellencies, fellow climate leaders, colleagues
It’s my honor to speak to you as Mayor of Malmö in Sweden and as ICLEI President, on behalf of the LGMA Constituency to the UNFCCC.
I have been very inspired by the Roundtables of the High Level Ministerial Dialogue today.
And, I applaud the commitments made to accelerate multi-level governance in national climate actions plans and the NDC’s to implement the Paris goals.
Since the Paris Agreement, cities and regions have led by example.
Thousands have set ambitious climate targets and take bold actions.
The local and subnational leaders of the LGMA reconfirm our strong commitment to work domestically with all those Parties, who endorsed CHAMP, and we will seek the appropriate avenues to integrate and align our local actions into the new national climate plans under the UNFCCC.
We congratulate Brazil and Germany for taking up the co-chairing of the CHAMP Initiative and to push our joint collaboration further.
We will also work with our fellow, local and regional leaders and their national governments, who are not part of Champ, but who embed multi-level collaboration and urbanization in their NDC’s.
To the Ministers of Climate, Urbanization and Housing, who gather at today’s Ministerial, I have a clear message:
Cities and regions under the LGMA are ready to work with you to turn the results of today’s discussions into the negotiated COP30 outcomes.
For this, we ask you to embed multi-level collaboration and urbanization in the UNFCCC processes, as follows:
- We need a new, appropriate, standing mechanisms in the UNFCCC process for enhanced multilevel climate action. This legacy should be complemented with the IPCC “Special Report on Cities”, in 2027 and turn into an integrated, holistic work program under the UFCCC, along the Global Stocktake in 2028.
- We need adaptation indicators that reflect local and territorial priorities and capture progress to the Global Goal on Adaptation.
- We ask for formal recognition of local and subnational actors as partners that are indispensable to national governments to implement just transition policies and plans.
- We ask to localize climate finance in the global financial architecture, and ensure that resources are appropriately channeled to local and regional governments in the global south and north.
- We are on stand-by to usher us into a new era of multilevel cooperation in the global climate and sustainability agenda, including the UN80 reforms.
These positions are endorsed by more than 50 networks of the LGMAConstituency, representing thousands of local and regional governments worldwide.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
We are innovative, determined, and already driving the change on the ground.
We are here as protectors of our shared future.
Our hope drives us to act with courage and unity.
Thank you.
