Urban-20 Mayors Summit 24/05/2019 – Posted in: Daily News – Tags: , ,

U20 MAYORS SUMMIT

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Topic covers: U20 Summit, Aim, Themes,

 

News Flash

The Tokyo Government hosted the 2019 Urban 20 (U20) Tokyo Mayors Summit.

After a successful first U20 Summit in Buenos Aires, U20 cities continue to engage with G20 and call on their national governments to work together to address the most pressing challenges our world is facing.

“Urban 20 seeks to collaborate and enrich the agenda of the G20 with an urban perspective, for that we will work together with the big cities of the world”

 

Issues taken

The Summit will address issues like climate action, circular economy, social inclusion, sustainable economic growth, and gender equality, as well as their linkages with the 2030 Agenda.

 

Highlights

  • On this two days event, more than 29 cities discussed their policy priorities on climate action, social inclusion and integration, sustainable economic growth and their linkages with the Sustainable Development Goals.
  • In a form of a Communiqué, U20 cities will convey their joint recommendations to the Government of Japan as G20 Chair, to be presented to the G20 the Leaders Summit in Osaka on 28-29 June 2019.
  • Leveraging the potential of cities as hubs of diversity and innovation is key to “realize and promote a free and open, inclusive and sustainable, human-centred future society” – as stated by the 2019 G20 Presidency.

 

Urban 20 or U20

Urban 20 (U20) is an initiative developed in 2017 under the leadership of the Mayor of Buenos Aires and Mayor of Paris, and convened by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) in collaboration with United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG).

Urban 20 is composed of 25 global cities: Beijing, Berlin, City of Buenos Aires, Chicago, Durban, Hamburg, Jakarta, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Melbourne, Mexico City, Milan, Montreal, Moscow, New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Sydney, Tokyo, and Tshwane.

 

The initiative aims

  • To highlight the expertise of cities in a range of global development issues.
  • Contributing with solutions to the G20.
  • Formulating clear recommendations to national governments.

 

Source: Urban 20

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