#Listen2Cities at #COP31 As Special Envoy of the COP31 Presidency for Local and Regional Governments and UCLG President, Uğur İbrahim Altay provides a bridge for dialogue between the Presidency and the organised constituency of cities and regions, through the Global Taskforce and LGMA. 🗣️ “Today, our ultimate goal is to move beyond words and focus on action, moving beyond short-term efforts towards lasting cooperation. I invite all my colleagues to join forces for cities that protect land and water.” As facilitator of the Global Taskforce, UCLG strongly supports the decades-long advocacy of the LGMA Constituency has done on its behalf, for a stronger role for local and regional governments in the UNFCCC process. We look to #COP31 as a moment that translates that collective advocacy into concrete commitments, stronger multilevel cooperation and lasting opportunities for local and regional governments to shape climate action.

🟣 Vice President of the @montpellier_ Metropole @ClareLouHart is representing UCLG at the @UN_Women’s Global Virtual Symposium on #SafeCities: "Through the Feminist Municipal Movement, we turn our individual experiences as women mayors and governors into collective power and our solidarity into a global political voice. Lasting change for #GenderEquality in our cities requires our institutions to actively support the transformations brought by feminist leadership, for democracy, solidarity and proximity." #15yrsSafeCities4women

✨#UCLGMeets Under the theme “Jointly Strengthening Friendship Cities Cooperation for Common Urban Development", UCLG takes part in the China International Friendship Cities Conference 🗣️@UCLG_Saiz "Let us recognise the international role of local and regional governments. City-to-city cooperation is an important expression of multilateralism in practice. Local governments bring proximity, democratic legitimacy and practical experience to international challenges. Their contribution should be recognised and supported within the wider system of international cooperation" 🤝 A shared commitment to strengthening city-to-city cooperation, building on the connections and exchanges fostered across regions, including through @uclgaspac

🌐 Universal services. Equal rights. Caring communities. The ambition is clear. #LRGs need the powers, resources and capacities to make it happen. At the #VeniceWinterSchool2026, we champion a new generation of universal local public services. #Listen2Cities

📈 Good news from the 2026 VNR cycle: 70% of countries meaningfully involved local & regional governments (decade average: 44%). But only 15% include them in national SDG coordination mechanisms. 🗒️ Reporting together is not yet deciding together. #VNR #VLR

🏠 At the 87th session of the @UNECE Housing Committee, Toulouse Deputy Mayor @LahianiDjillali spoke for local & regional governments: housing is a human right and a public good, not a commodity. 🏙️ Housing commitments will be judged in cities. #HousingJustice

📑 At the 87th session of the @UNECE Committee on Urban Development, we presented @uclg_org’s #HLPF report Towards the Localization of the SDGs: ✅ 10 editions ✅ 4,650 practices from 1,600+ local & regional governments 🌐 Localization happens through public services.

✨#Listen2Cities At the Sixth meeting of the UN Forum of Mayors in Geneva @UNECE, @uclg_org called for a rights-based, comprehensive approach to housing justice, connecting the right to housing with public goods, inclusion and the tools cities need to deliver. Through the Housing Justice Academy, UCLG is opening this conversation with cities and local leaders to share solutions and turn them into policy.

#Listen2Cities At the 6th UN Forum Of Mayors, President @u_ibrahim_altay held a bilateral meeting with @UNECE Executive Secretary @Tatiana_Molcean to: ✅ Strengthen cooperation on connecting the global and local agendas ✅ Enhance synergies at COP31 ✅ Ensure a greater role for local and regional overnments in the post-2030 agenda.

#Listen2Cities At the 6th UN Forum Of Mayors @UNECE, @uclg_org President and Mayor of @Konyabuyuksehir @u_ibrahim_altay highlighted the strengthened relationship between UCLG and UNECE. A relationship that exemplifies what today’s multilateralism needs to be: one that needs to rise to the challenges of our times. As Special Envoy for Local and Regional Governments at @turkiyecop31, President Altay further called to understand housing as a human right and a public good, and to incorporate the climate perspective into housing plans.

🌐🏆 The 7th Award UCLG - Mexico City - Culture 21 2025-2026 goes for: 🏙️ 🌆 THE CITIES OF RAMALLAH, for the initiative 'Living Heritage for a Resilient Future', aiming at safeguarding and activate cultural heritage as a living urban resource through a gender perspective that ensures continuity of collective memory and heritage across generations. SÃO PAULO, for the 'VAI Program (Valorization of Cultural Initiatives)', an initiative that recognizes young people as creators and producers of actions relevant to society, as an fundamental public tool for social inclusion, care and equality. 👩‍💼👨‍💼 AS WELL AS International experts Nancy Duxbury (@nancydux) and Amareswar Galla (@Amareswargalla) for their outstanding work and contribution to better understand and build from the relation between culture, local policies, gender equality and care. 🔗 All infos at agenda21culture.net/award/wi…

🌐🏆 Ceremonia de Premiación UCLG - CDMX - C21 María del Rocío Lombera González, Coordinadora General de @InternacCDMX del @GobCDMX: "La cultura es el alma de nuestras ciudades, Genera interconexiones, conocimientos, vida, memoria, y paz."

🔵 Worldwide, cities and territories lead local action to transform narratives and social norms throught inclusive cultural policies. 🟣 Worldwide, cultural factors can become enablers to #WomensRights and feminist leadership towards more equality and democracy. ⚧ Today we keep learning with local and international peers about #CulturalRights, Care and #GenderEquality at Utopía Centli in Topilejo! A peer-learning exchange organised by @gobCDMX and @agenda21culture and supported by the #WYDEWomensLeadership initiative. 🌐 Stay tuned!

📌 At the @TBB Union of Municipalities of Türkiye’s Local Social Policies Workshop, UCLG Head of Research @anna_c_intnal highlighted how #LocalGovs are moving beyond the role of social policy implementers to actively shape local welfare. 🟣 Integrated local public services, care as a cross-cutting approach, and effective multilevel governance that gives LRGs a genuine seat at the decision-making table are 🔑 for effective and inclusive local social policy.