Considering the difficulties faced by municipal governments against the crisis caused by the covid-19 and the urgency to strengthen the climate agenda, the members of the National Coordination of the Covenant in Brazil, represented on the opportunity by the Network of Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI South America), by the Brazilian Association of Municipalities (ABM)…
A new regional strategy for the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) was discussed by the Regional Consultative Committee of Central America at a meeting on August 3rd. Maria Eugênia Salaverría, the representative for the Covenant in Central America, highlighted the relevance of the strategic action plan presented at the meeting and…
Experience Interchanging Permanent Forum continues in the GCoM-LAC The National Coordinators and Presidents of the National Consultative Committees of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy in Latin America and the Caribbean (GCoM-LAC) remain in permanent contact in the virtual forum of the program. The forum was created to provide regular interchanging meetings…
The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) fully recognizes the socio-economic, political and geographical impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic is causing on communities around the world. As cities and local governments develop sustainable recovery plans, the GCoM is committed to making the reporting process more flexible during 2020. The CDP-ICLEI Unified Reporting…
The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy in Latin America and the Caribbean presents their new virtual library, with the objective of hosting hundreds of documents of interest to cities that wish to be involved in the fight against climate changes. The virtual library seeks to be a reference space where the information…
With the aim to ratify the commitment of the Ecuadorian municipal union in the fight against climate change, the Association of Municipalities of Ecuador (AME), together with the Ministry of Environment and Water; the municipality of Quito and WWF Ecuador presented the event “Promotion of the GCoM initiative to municipalities in Ecuador and socializing the…
With the aim that the managers of the cities that are part of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy can report their work for the climate in their territories, the tutorial videos on the CDP & ICLEI unified platform are now available on the Covenant page. The series of video tutorials aim…
The International Program for Urban Cooperation in Latin America (IUC-LAC) of the European Union supported Green Funding training, which is part of the course virtual Design and presentation of investment projects organized by the Argentine Network of Municipalities against Climate Change (RAMCC) and in collaboration with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The virtual course on Inversion…
The Argentine Network of Municipalities Facing Climate Change (RAMCC) and the organization YVYJARYI – Citizenship against climate change in the Republic of Paraguay have been exchanging since May with the objective of working at the bases to the development of Climate Action Plans in local paraguayan governments. The action it is co-organized by the Friedrich…
The Permanent Forum of National Coordinators and Presidents of the National Consultative Committees of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy in Latin America and the Caribbean was created to provide these actors with a permanent virtual space for exchange and institutional strengthening to foster the program. “The space was created because we…