Cities are ready to act. What is needed to meet their transformative ambitions?
The obstacle to urban climate action is rarely ambition. It is building the finance systems and project preparation support that turn plans into investable projects.
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Cities, climate, and convergence: What the first Annual Review on the Rio Conventions tells us
Born from the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, these three multilateral environmental agreements have shaped how the international community approaches global environmental challenges.
How Daring Cities 2025 is mobilizing multilevel action
Under the theme “Stronger national climate plans through multilevel action,” the sixth edition of Daring Cities aims to serve as a pivotal platform for local and regional governments to influence global climate negotiations. Explore what Daring Cities 2025 is bringing to the table.
On the road to COP30: Reflecting on how multilevel action can strengthen national climate plans
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.
From Daring Cities to Town Hall COPs, how ICLEI is taking on local-to-global 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.
Daring to lead: Six cities driving climate action
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
Catalyzing multilevel climate action: CHAMP endorsers strategize together at Daring Cities roundtable
“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.
Lessons from five daring cities that are paving the way toward a just and equitable climate emergency response
Throughout this year, hundreds of cities, towns, and regions have gathered at Daring Cities 2023 to discuss their approaches in…
Cities and subnationals make their case for multilevel climate action at the kickoff of Daring Cities 2023
Daring Cities 2023 started with a bang with a hybrid two-day event alongside the UNFCCC Bonn Climate Talks (SB58) in…
Looking back, moving forward: Financial strategies Daring Cities showcased to help cities fight climate change
Looking back on Daring Cities 2022, the virtual forum jointly hosted by ICLEI and the City of Bonn, one of…
Cities responding to the climate emergency through innovative finance, people-centered approaches, and resilience initiatives
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.
Talking transformation: Going from unemployed youth living in slum conditions to catalysts for change
“Two huge things need to happen” to have any hope of lifting the world’s most vulnerable out of poverty, while…