From Bonn to Belém: How national commitments and cities together can deliver a climate-ready future

From Bonn to Belém: How national commitments and cities together can deliver a climate-ready future

Under the umbrella of Daring Cities 2025 Bonn Dialogues, this event highlighted the importance of partnerships to deliver not just ambitious plans, but real climate action for a thriving future.

From fragmentation to structure: CHAMP helps scaling climate action across all levels

From fragmentation to structure: CHAMP helps scaling climate action across all levels

The 2nd CHAMP UNFCCC Focal Point Dialogue provided a platform for national government endorsers and their strategic partners to assess progress and guide CHAMP’s implementation toward COP30.

Cities, climate, and convergence: What the first Annual Review on the Rio Conventions tells us

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.

All levels, one goal: Scaling ambition ahead of COP30

All levels, one goal: Scaling ambition ahead of COP30

Every year, the Bonn Climate Talks – formally the sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies (SBs) – serve as the mid-year checkpoint on the road to the annual COP. With over 6,000 national delegates and civil society representatives expected, the SB62 (16-26 June 2025) is far from routine.

From Daring Cities to Town Hall COPs, how ICLEI is taking on local-to-global 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.

Cities can bring CHAMP to life

Cities can bring CHAMP to life

During the ICLEI World Congress 2024 closing plenary on 21 June, Katja Dörner, Mayor of Bonn, Germany, and chair of the Climate Action Governance Portfolio for the ICLEI Global Executive Committee, called on urban leaders to proactively engage with their national governments and local government associations to enhance NDCs by 2025 and support CHAMP. National associations of local governments – under the leadership of ICLEI governance Members – in Germany, Brazil, and the U.S. have pledged to CHAMP, pioneering a global movement to push for stronger local involvement in national climate plans.