2021 World Council

Organized in the framework of COP 26 Local and Regional Governments Day.

🎯 Description: The Policy Council on Safer, Resilient and Sustainable Cities, Capable of Facing Crises promotes exchanges on the responses to periods of instability, highlighting the role local and regional governments can play in carrying out an ecological transition towards global resilience. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Policy Council considers an extended concept of resilience, which also takes into account the social and community needs, as well as public service provision, economic development and care.

The meeting will take place virtually during the Local and Regional Government's day of the UNFCCC COP26, stressing the links between climate and health, and will address the urgent transformations required to ensure a safe, inclusive and resilient world for current and future generations.

Link to register for the session (required to participate).

💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish.

‍🎤 Some of the voices you will hear: 

• Fatima El Mansouri, Minister of Housing, Territorial Planning, Urban Planning and City Policy of Morocco, Mayor of Marrakech, Morocco
• Fernando Gray, Mayor of Esteban Echeverria, Argentina, Vice-President of Mercociudades
• Sami Kanaan, Member of the Executive Council of the City of Geneva, Switzerland, Chair of the UCLG Permanent Working Group on Territorial Prevention and Management of Crises, Co-Chair of the Policy Council
• Véronique Lamontagne, Director of the International Relations Office, General Direction, Montréal, Canada
• Corinne Lepage, President of the Association of Friends of the Universal Declaration of Humankind Rights 
• Sally Loudon, Chief Executive, Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA)
• Ali Manasra, Mayor of Bani Naim Al-Khalil, Palestine
• Greg Munro, Director of Cities Alliance
• Arnaud Ngatcha, Deputy Mayor of Paris, France
• Aisen Nikolaev, Head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) 
• Martina Otto, Head of Cities Unit, UNEP
• Andrew Potts, Coordinator of the Climate Heritage Network
• Ana Román, Director General of the Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities (UCCI)
• Yaroslav Shaposhnikov, Head of Vorkuta 
• Francisco Toajas, Mayor of Las Cabezas de San Juan, Spain, Co-Chair of the UCLG Committee on Local Economic and Social
• Chingyu Yao, Director-General of Secretariat, New Taipei City Government

📌 Key Documents:

▶️ Concept note | Agenda

🔗 Related resources of interest:

▶️ COP 26 Multilevel Action Pavilion LGMA

▶️ Resilience Learning Module I: Fundamentals of Resilient Governance & Development

▶️ Resilience Learning Module II: Strategies & Actions

▶️ Peer Learning Note: Climate resilience and urban development

▶️ Peer Learning Note: Urban resilience and sustainability

📺 UCLG TV:

▶️ Special Policy Council Channel with the latest events, campaigns and key interviews.