Becoming global climate governors: How cities are moving from climate ambition to coordinated action and delivery
- Autores: Hannah Abdullah
- Localización: Notes internacionals CIDOB, ISSN-e 2013-4428, Nº. 273, 2022, págs. 1-7
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Global policy increasingly acknowledges city-level action as vital to keeping the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C goal within reach. While responsible for around two-thirds of global emissions, cities are also leaders in policy innovation to tackle the climate emergency.
This local innovation has been accompanied by a surge in transnational collaboration around urban climate governance, making it one of the most prominent areas of city diplomacy.
However, for cities to gain their rightful place in the international climate regime, city-level climate diplomacy must be further professionalised and oriented towards clear and measurable goals.
Cities must also deepen and expand collaboration with each other, the private sector, civil society organisations, national governments and the international organisations that set the global climate agenda.
More intense multi-stakeholder and multilevel collaboration will be particularly needed to better engage smaller and Global South cities; to upscale high-impact urban climate solutions; to unlock public and private finance;
to improve cities’ climate accountability; and to leverage the city as an actor and scale for achieving climate justice.
