Colombia, Peru, and Chile have hosted meetings with the GCoM to coordinate national actions among their partners. Earlier this month (February 2), the first meeting of Colombia’s National Advisory Committee took place at the European Union (EU) Delegation headquarters in Bogotá. The Committee had been formed previously. Representatives from the GCoM Latin America Secretariat, ICLEI,…
The Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency will host an online seminar titled “Think Globally, Act Locally – Energy Efficiency Actions in Argentina and Rosario” on March 8th. The seminar will focus on energy efficiency issues at various levels of government, with a particular emphasis on the city of Rosario: The Argentine Network of Municipalities Facing…
The Latin American Secretariat of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy invites organizations interested in becoming National Facilitators to submit their Expressions of Interest. National Facilitators in each country work to support the GCoM signatory municipalities in achieving their greenhouse gas reduction goals and mitigating climate vulnerabilities. The alliance aims to have…
Representatives from the governments of more than one hundred localities in Argentina met on February 8 in Rosario for the Assembly of Mayors of the Argentine Network of Municipalities Facing Climate Change (RAMCC). The meeting marks the beginning of the Network’s activities for 2018, establishing actions to be carried out and reviewing what happened in…
The Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) has opened a public call to identify potential consultants interested in conducting climate diagnostic studies in cities of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. The CAF Directorate of Environment and Climate Change will carry out these analysis studies throughout 2018 and is seeking to identify potential participants…
The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy in Latin America (GCoM-LAC) was launched in Chile during the third Forum of Mayors on Climate Change Chile 2017, organized by the Chilean Network of Municipalities on Climate Change and Adapt-Chile. The event occurred on November 30 in Santiago, where the National Steering Committee of the…
On Tuesday, November 28, the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy in Latin America (GCoM-LAC) held the “Climate Coffee” event as part of the 72nd General Meeting of the National Front of Mayors (FNP) and the 12th Meeting of the Forum of Environment Secretaries of Brazilian Capitals (CB27). The meeting discussed the participation…
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…