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Newsletter – n°37 – October 2015

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1000 mayors for climate

Only a few weeks left before the opening of the Paris climate conference (COP21). Now is the time to recall that cities contribute to 75 percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, and that they will grow by 1.4 billion people in the next 20 years. With these challenges in mind, cities and local governments will play a critical role in the upcoming climate negotiations...

News from partners

AFCCRE’s European university with a shade of decentralised cooperation

Decentralised cooperation featured high on the occasion of AFCCRE’s second European university on 28 and 29 October in Marseille. The host city’s deputy mayor in charge of international relations and co-chair of UCLG’s Mediterranean Commission Jean Roatta described Marseille’s long standing commitment to decentralised cooperation...

Mali: when towns work towards peace

Local governance, decentralisation and peace process in Mali were at the heart of the round table “Peace in Mali”, organised on 21^st October in Paris. The round table gave Mali’s local authorities the opportunity to express their opinion on decentralisation and on the necessary conditions for an effective local development...

Initiative worth following

A new Covenant of Mayors ahead of COP21

Hundreds of representatives of towns and cities flocked to the European Parliament on 15 October for the launching the New Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy. The ceremony took place less than two months ahead of the COP21 international summit in Paris...

Raising the profile of development cooperation in Europe

How to raise European citizens’ awareness of development issues? This was the main topic of the EU Development Education and Awareness Raising (DEAR) programme fair on 23 and 24 October in Brussels...

Calendar

Upcoming

14 - 22 November (France): International solidarity week, consult the event webpage (French only)

24 November (Prague, Czech Republic): Conference on the role of local authorities in development cooperation, organised by SMOCR

29 November – 3 December (Johannesburg, South Africa): 7^th Africities Summit, consult the event webpage

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New York – Paris: mayors to heal our climate

Our world of towns and regions has been taking the pulse of and recommending treatment for our climate these last weeks. Last September’s New York summit on the next Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) saw the world state that local governments hold the key to a better, fairer, greener world; and from end of November till early December Paris will host the world summit on climate change, the ubiquitous COP21.

The Paris - New York connection is strong: the host city’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, and New York’s former mayor, Michael Bloomberg, are pushing for local governments to become the solution to climate change. 1,000 mayors representing our planet’s biggest cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Delhi, Dakar, London, Paris, Rio, New York…) will gather in the French capital city to state that by 2050 two humans in three will be living in towns or cities, that climate change occurs mainly in cities and that therefore solutions will be devised and implemented at local level. This will be PLATFORMA’s message in Paris.