Supported by the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy and ICLEI, representatives from Latin American cities attended COP23 in Bonn, Germany, in November. COP23, the 23rd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is a global event focused on implementing the Convention and addressing climate change.…
Six cities and an inter-municipal consortium from Brazil, four Argentine cities, and two regions from Mexico and Colombia have been selected so far to be part of the International Urban Cooperation Program (IUC), an initiative funded by the European Union that works to promote the implementation of the New Urban Agenda through sustainable, ecological, and…
The mayor of Salvador, Antônio Carlos Magalhães Neto, in a meeting with the European Union Ambassador to Brazil, João Cravinho, signed the Commitment Letter of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy in its Latin American branch this Thursday, October 19, in Salvador. This made Bahia’s capital the first city to renew its…