UrbanShift: Transforming cities for people and planet through multi-level governance

Date: Tueday, 09 Nov 2021Time: 13:30-14:45 EDT / 15:30-16:45 BRT / 18:30-19:45 GMT / 20:30-21:45 CAT

Broadcast live on UNFCCC You Tube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSaL4I5nM60

For registered COP participant, you can also view the event via the official COP26 platform

Organised by the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), the Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) and the Centro de Gestão e Estudos Estratégicos (CGEE), with support from the UrbanShift Programme and its partners (the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), C40 Cities, ICLEI and WRI), this event will showcase the importance of multi-level governance in enabling ambitious actions to shift towards net zero-carbon, resource-efficient, nature positive and socially equitable cities.

The Paris Agreement recognizes that local and regional governments have an important role to play in global climate action. National governments will not be able to achieve ambitious climate goals without a contribution from cities in the country. In parallel, cities can only effectively address climate change and transform if the state puts in place the enabling frameworks and incentives. This interdependence requires that the subnational levels are well integrated in national climate policies, but also that they get the chance to contribute to policy development, including of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and co-design the process of multi-level governance.

The event will showcase examples of multi-level governance in practice, discussing how local and national governments, as well as the international community, can come together to achieve their climate goals.

Agenda:

• Opening Rogier van den Berg, Acting Global Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, representing the UrbanShift Global Platform
• Setting the scene: the importance of multi-level governance for ambitious climate action Martina Otto, Head, Cities Unit, UNEP
• Panel 1: Multi-level governance in practice: how national governments and international actors are supporting local climate action? Marcelo Morales, Secretary for Research and Scientific Formation, Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI); Faustin Munyazikwiye, Deputy DG of REMA and UNFCCC National Focal Point, Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) and Matthew Brian Reddy, Senior Private Sector Specialist, Global Environment Facility (GEF) Secretariat
• Panel 2: How local governments and civil society are taking action and contribute to national and international climate goals ? João Campos, Mayor of Recife, Brazil; Ladislas NGENDAHIMANA, Secretary General, Rwanda Association of Local Government Authorities (RALGA); Aaditya Thackeray, Minister of Tourism and Environment, Government of Maharashtra, India; José Sarney Filho, Environment Secretary, Federal District Government, Brasil and Marco Lobo, Centro de Gestão e Estudos Estratégicos (CGEE)
• Wrap up Rogier van den Berg, Acting Global Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, representing the UrbanShift Global Platform