Looking ahead to COP30, what cities and regions do in advance of this global climate summit may matter more than the conference itself. On the road to Belém, local and regional governments have a unique opportunity to engage with their national governments, shift the trajectory of the climate emergency, and push for inclusive, multilevel climate action.
Throughout 2024, Daring Cities spotlighted the Town Hall COPs initiative as an innovative mechanism linking local climate emergency action to national and global efforts. How do the Town Hall COPs fit into the current global climate arena? We brought this discussion to COP29.
Hundreds of cities’ representatives and their partners have come together at the Daring Cities 2024 to exchange solutions and discuss their strategies to tackle the climate emergency. How does this translate into practice? The event showcased many real-life cases that offer inspiration for other local and regional governments to dare to take bold, transformative steps forward
“The climate crisis is global. But the work to address it is global, national, regional and local” – Axel Schmidt Grael, Mayor of Niterói, Brazil and Chair of the ICLEI Climate Action Support Portfolio, during the CHAMP endorser roundtable on 4 June, under the umbrella of Daring Cities Bonn Dialogues 2024.
Throughout this year, hundreds of cities, towns, and regions have gathered at Daring Cities 2023 to discuss their approaches in…
Daring Cities 2023 started with a bang with a hybrid two-day event alongside the UNFCCC Bonn Climate Talks (SB58) in…
Looking back on Daring Cities 2022, the virtual forum jointly hosted by ICLEI and the City of Bonn, one of…
Daring Cities 2022 highlighted the pivotal role of cities in responding to the climate emergency through innovative finance, people-centered approaches, and resilience initiatives, emphasizing the need for formalizing climate action processes, improving funding access, and including traditionally underrepresented groups.
“Two huge things need to happen” to have any hope of lifting the world’s most vulnerable out of poverty, while…
Yet another reason to get excited about the ICLEI’s Daring Cities 2022, which takes place all next week, is the…
Since its inception in 2020, the focus of Daring Cities has been to catalyze and accelerate local climate emergency action….