Mayors of Various Cities in Liberia Return from 2019 Annual Summit of the Global Parliament of Mayors in South Africa By Prue Clarke Last updated Nov 15, 2019 This year’s conference focused on the most critical challenges that humankind has been faced with over the past decade Monrovia – The President of the Mayors Association of Liberia, Jefferson T. [...]
Nov 13, 2019 COLUMBIA, S.C. (November 12, 2019) – Following a successful stint as President of the United States Conference of Mayors, which concluded in July, Mayor Steve Benjamin has been elected as the Vice President of the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM). The election occurred On November 11, 2019 during the GPM’s Annual Summit [...]
De Lille applauds US mayors who ‘defied’ Trump’s climate change stance November 11, 2019 | by ANA Newswire Public Works Minister Patricia de Lille with eThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda at the Global Parliament of Mayors Annual Summit in Durban on Sunday. Photo: Supplied ;ANA newswire DURBAN, November 10 (ANA) – South Africa’s Public Works Minister Patricia de [...]
iStock Cities are the the 21st century’s dominant form of civilization — and they’re where humanity’s struggle for survival will take place. Robert Muggah and Benjamin Barber spell out the possibilities. Half the planet’s population lives in cities. They are the world’s engines, generating four-fifths of the global GDP. There are over 2,100 cities with populations [...]
The city of Mannheim and GPM Mayor Peter Kurz hosted the GPM Executive Committee Meeting in February 2019, the German newspaper Capital wrote an article about the Global Mayor. Der globale Bürgermeister Metropolen können die Problemlöser unserer Zeit sein. Sie schließen die Lücke, die Nationalstaaten bei der Lösung globaler Herausforderungen hinterlassen. Sibylle Barden-Fürchtenicht über die [...]
Read the full article here: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/meet-mayors-here-few-politicians-2124486 The third annual Global Parliament of Mayors summit will kick off in Bristol on Sunday. Up to 100 representatives from cities including Carolina, America; Cape Town, South Africa and Kingston, Jamaica, will meet to discuss some of the most pressing international questions during the three day event. The politicians [...]
By Marvin Rees: October 1, 2018 The Labour mayor of Bristol on how local issues are global issues. As the leader of a city like Bristol, I come face to face with unique challenges every day. Across the world other international cities will also have their quirks – but we are united through [...]
Global Parliament of Mayors Annual Summit 2018 – Hannah Muirhead At the end of last month, the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM) held its third annual summit in Bristol. 80 mayors from around the world got together to discuss empowering cities as drivers of global change. It was the clear from the start that the pervading [...]
Steven Morris @stevenmorris20 Tue 23 Oct 2018 City leaders call for devolution away from Westminster as Brexit becomes a reality. A radical shift of power from Westminster is needed to help combat the impact of Brexit, a new network of mayors and city leaders has said after what they described as a historic meeting in Bristol. The [...]
Romanian mayors to attend Global Parliament of Mayors in UK Four Romanian mayors have registered to attend this year’s Global Parliament for Mayors Summit in Bristol, UK, which will be organized between October 21 and October 23. They are Bucharest mayor Gabriela Firea, Cluj-Napoca mayor Emil Boc, Constanta mayor Decebal Fagadau, and Timisoara mayor Nicolae Robu, according to a [...]
