📅 5 December 2025 🕝 14:30-15:30 CET
📍 Online

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#Cities #Regions #Citiverse #Digitalization #ITU #AI #VirtualWorlds

On 5 December, join the UNEA-7 Cities & Regions Summit to discover how LRGs contribute to Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs).

GCH co-director Kamelia Kemileva will also be intervening!

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#Cities #Regions #Sustainability #Cooling #UrbanHeat

🎯 The objectives are:
✳️ Sharing innovative practices and solutions
✳️ Bridging the gap between national and #Local
✳️ Cooling and sustainable buildings as a recurring UNEA topic
✳️ A formal consultation mechanism for LRGs in UNEP processes
✳️ Elevating the role of LRGs in climate adaptation

“ #Cities are heating up at twice the global average rate due to rapid urbanization and the urban heat island effect… [they] are bearing the brunt, as congestion, the built environment and concentrated energy use trap and amplify temperatures”
- UN SG António Guterres' Call to Action #ExtremeHeat

Kamelia Kemileva of @globalcitieshub.org stresses the need for greater inclusion and structured cooperation with local and regional governments on all environmental policy processes, noting they are uniquely positioned due to their closeness to citizens.

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#Cities #Regions #SmartCities #Digitalization

✳️ Do these technologies take decisions for us?
✳️ Do they serve municipalities to improve residents’ lives and how?
✳️ Do they create jobs and how to get qualified for those new jobs?
➡️ No simple answer, but shared conviction that #AI is a tool to create better lives for people.

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#UrbanForests #UrbanResilience #UrbanTrees #Cities #Regions #InternationalGeneva

🚶🚶🚶 Join us for an interactive event to discover the urban forest of Parc Rigot! 🚶🚶🚶

After a light breakfast, we will visiting a Miyawaki forest in Parc Rigot.

📅 5 Nov 🕑 08:00 – 09:00
📍 Villa Rigot
Co-organized with United Nations Economic Commission for Europe & ArboCityNet

How can LRGs plan, fund and sustainably manage urban trees and forests?
Discover practical tools, policies, and funding models.

📅 5 Nov 🕑 11:30 – 12:30
📍 Palais des Nations, Room XII

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🔥 GCH's Anh Thu Duong will moderate the panel "Increasing Climate Resilience through Integrated Urban Heat and Water Resource Management", exploring how urban services can help cities address growing challenges from heat stress & water scarcity.

📅 4 Nov 🕑 14:20-15:40 CET
📍 WMO HQ - Room Obasi

🌊 GCH's Andras Szorenyi will moderate the panel "Coastal Cities as Source and Solution: Shifting the Plastics Pollution Paradigm", exploring how coastal cities can transition from sources of pollution to drivers of safe and effective solutions 🌱

📅 4 Nov 🕑 14:20-15:40 CET
📍 WMO HQ - Room C1

⚡ GCH's Anh Thu Duong will speak at the High-Level Dialogue "Invigorate innovation and leadership towards greener and smarter cities", highlighting the role of LRGs in fighting climate change and other env. challenges, including plastic pollution.

📅 4 Nov 🕑 11:50-12:50 CET
📍 WMO HQ - Room Obasi

The event is organised within our fantastic partnership with @itu.int !

📢 Let’s shape the #urban life of the future: #digital and #dynamic, but also deeply human.

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📢 GCH committed to collaboration with UNECE & UN Regional Economic Commissions to globalize and strengthen FoM. States should support this vital platform - it is #InclusiveMultilateralism.

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#cities #regions