Becoming global climate governors [Recurso electrónico] : how cities are moving from climate ambition to coordinated action and delivery Hannah Abdullah

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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 multi-
level 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.