Announcements
Announcements
Learning Agenda, Resiliencia - 29/10/2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted, disaster risk is complex, systemic, and dynamic; just like the urban areas and communities that are exposed to it. Our members, local and regional governments around the world, need support and capacity to articulate what constitutes and shapes disaster risk and resilience, and to provide solutions that will not only reduce risk, but also build resilience to ensure equitable and sustainable development in their communities.
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Localizing SDGs - 28/10/2020
The world organization United Cities and Local Governments and the Barcelona Provincial Council have organized in October a series of 6 debates, held in the context of the online course "Localizing ODS: tools for local transformation", offered to more than 100 public officials from local and regional governments, regional sections and national associations members of UCLG, who have presented their local realities and the challenges for enabling a favorable local environment for the localization of SDGs.
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Housing - 28/10/2020
On October 9th, the «Housing rights: Looking back, looking forward » event was co-hosted by the Development Planning Unit (DPU), the Habitat International Coalition (HIC), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG). In the framework of the Cities Are Listening process, the event contributed to the joint work for the right to adequate housing advanced in the UCLG World Congress’ Town Hall process last year.
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Learning - 28/10/2020
This October UCLG has launched its online Learning Platform #LearningWithUclg, an open space for the UCLG Learning community to participate and offer their own online courses, that can be integrated and chosen by all registered members.
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citiesarelistening - 26/10/2020
The mandate that our centenary movement has is clear: it is time to move from social distance to a world driven by communities. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to deepen the democratic process and transformation of cities and territories. We have to promote transformative actions to take responsibility for future generations and to leave no one and no place behind.
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Urban 20 - 05/10/2020
A record 39 mayors and city leaders today endorsed the official 27-point Urban 20 (U20) Communiqué which was officially handed over to the G20 the final day of the U20 Mayors Summit, held virtually from Riyadh. Endorsing cities included Barcelona, Berlin, Buenos Aires, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Montreal, Osaka, Paris, Rome, Seoul and Tokyo.
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