01 December 2022 - The Global Parliament of Mayors is excited to announce that Mayor Danela Arsovska of Skopje, Macedonia, has joined the organisation. Mayor Arsovska was elected as Mayor of Skopje in 2021. Back in 2014, she was voted in as President of the Macedonian Chambers of Commerce, the union of national chambers of [...]

31 October 2022 - By 2050, nearly 7 out of 10 people globally will live in cities and other urban settings. Although many will benefit from their urban status, rapid and unplanned urbanization can have negative social and environmental health impacts, particularly on the poorest and most vulnerable. While urbanization, overall, is expected to reduce [...]

24 October 2022 - Congratulations to GPM Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE of Freetown on winning the 2022 C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards under the 'Innovative Climate Solutions' category. Freetown won the award for the project FreetownTheTreeTown, an initiative set up with the objective to plant, digitally track, and grow 1 million trees across Freetown by [...]

24 October 2022 - As part of this year’s Urban October, a month that spotlights opportunities and challenges faced by residents in cities and urban areas, the Global Parliament of Mayors is partnering with Peace in Our Cities & UN-Habitat to invite you to a public launch of the Peace in Our Cities Report, Guiding Principles and Inspiring Actions: Operationalizing [...]

19 October 2022 – The GPM is proud to welcome Mayor Shqiprim Arifi of Presevo (Serbia) as newest member of the GPM. Mayor Arifi was elected president of the municipality of Presevo in 2016, was re-elected in 2018 and again in April 2022. Mayor Arifi was born in Mannheim, Germany, where he started his own [...]