Discover how cities can expand their fiscal and institutional capacity to attract and manage climate finance. This session explores the role of digital tools for tracking and reporting, data platforms for transparency, and innovative approaches that allow cities to unlock new sources of investment.
With speakers from the City of Toronto and CReDO, this session examines how cities are creating energy systems that are both innovative and people-centred. It highlights how digital tools, IoT-enabled efficiency platforms, and AI optimisation are driving progress, alongside community-focused initiatives that ensure inclusivity in the transition.
Local and regional governments are calling for deeper national collaboration and clearer funding pathways following on from the COP30 negotiations in Belém.
Amazon, DHL and Scania project will see the truck travel from Cajamar to Taubaté, in São Paulo, Amazon’s main freight corridor in Brazil, for six months.
The ProUrbano programme helps cities across Latin America and the Caribbean better understand and transfer climate risks and finance adaptation measures.
Memorandum with Banco do Nordeste broadens technical assistance, maps environmental project opportunities, and advances low-carbon urban development strategies.
It aims to enhance the health sector’s resilience to climate change via surveillance systems, capacity building, innovation, and evidence-based policymaking.
Cop30 President André Corrêa do Lago highlighted the importance of adaptation and multilevel governance, while a report was launched on the inclusion of cities in new NDCs.
This session will examine how cities are creating energy systems that are both innovative and people-centred. It will highlight how digital tools, IoT-enabled efficiency platforms, and AI optimisation are driving progress, alongside community-focused initiatives that ensure inclusivity in the transition. Speakers from City of Toronto and CReDO.
The Global Mutirão Against Extreme Heat/Beat the Heat seeks to accelerate implementation of sustainable cooling and heat-resilience solutions in cities.
Plan to accelerate multilevel governance launches at Cop30 in Belém and Brazil and Germany are announced as the first co-chairs of the Champ coalition.
The statement is the final outcome from the Local Leaders Forum in Rio and calls on national governments to strengthen partnerships with cities and regions.
The 2025 Global Snapshot contains fresh analysis of the 2,164 projects disclosed through CDP-ICLEI Track, by 507 cities in 62 countries, so far in 2025.
Projects will provide green transport, cut greenhouse gas emissions and introduce nature-based solutions to strengthen climate resilience in four major cities.
First-of-its-kind initiative launched at Cop30 Local Leaders Forum aims to mobilise €450m and deploy more than 1,700 electric buses across Brazil until 2030.
One-stop-shop information portal is intended to provide transparency, empower and enable action by stakeholders to implement mitigation and adaptation measures.
More than 300 city leaders will attend the summit with the goal of moving from the era of climate negotiation to the decade of delivery, with cities taking the lead.
Report spotlights where business and policymakers are making progress on key interventions to cut carbon in buildings, providing a playbook ahead of Cop30 to inform policy.
Initiative aims to increase territorial resilience and adaptive capacity, while reducing territorial inequalities and ensuring the right to the city for all.
Data from C40 Cities reveals that 21 million good green jobs exist in the 81 cities assessed, confirming city-led climate action contributes to economic opportunities.
This is among the findings in Siemens’ study of global executives exploring the state of the infrastructure transition across energy, industry and buildings.
Bloomberg Philanthropies Local Leaders Awards honour ambitious, impactful, and people-centered climate breakthroughs led by cities and local governments.
The Communique is being delivered to the Cop30 Presidency and advocates for a defined role for cities within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Report sets out a portfolio approach to help cities around the world design resilience as an investment strategy that builds credibility and attracts capital.
Maloca is a multiverse platform that seeks to remove barriers of geography and resources and make participation in the climate conference available to anyone.
With speakers from the City of Toronto and CReDO, this session examines how cities are creating energy systems that are both innovative and people-centred. It highlights how digital tools, IoT-enabled efficiency platforms, and AI optimisation are driving progress, alongside community-focused initiatives that ensure inclusivity in the transition.
The world’s largest city climate week, taking place until 28 September, sets the stage for November’s Local Leaders Forum in Rio and Cop30 talks in Bélem.
Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy and the New York Climate Exchange will host the 2025 AI x City Climate Action Forum, which includes a hackathon.
Cities vaunted as leaders of a renewed, people-centred multilateralism as communiqué presses for formalised multi-level collaboration on climate strategies.
To be held in São Paulo ahead of Cop30 in Belém, the forum aims to mobilise capital from public and private sectors in support of the Cop30 Presidency goals.
