13 December, 2021 - The GPM endorses the African and European Statement on Covid-19 Vaccine Equity, calling equal access to vaccines for everyone, having a coordinated and global response to ensure vaccines reach people faster. Urgent action needs to be taken to improve the access to vaccines for all, and more specifically to accelerate the [...]
14 December 2021 - Mayor Bryan Barnett, mayor of the city of Rochester Hills, Michigan/USA, has been appointed Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the Global Parliament of Mayors. Mayor Barnett, currently serving his 15th year as mayor of Rochester Hills and former President of the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM), joined the [...]
30 November, 2021 – The Global Parliament of Mayors is extremely proud to be partnering with the governments of the United States, Germany, The Netherlands, and the German Marshall Fund, as well as the Woodrow Wilson Center to organize the side event “Mayors Delivering Democracy Daily” of the Summit for Democracy. The event, held on December [...]
29 November, 2021 – Lord Mayor of Banjul Rohey Malick Lowe (Banjul, The Gambia) has been appointed Vice Chair of the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM). In her position as Vice Chair, Mayor Lowe is now a member of the GPM’s Daily Board, joining Mayor Peter Kurz (Mannheim, Germany), who serves as Chair of the [...]
18 November 2021 – Approximately 200 million people are expected to leave their homes due to climate change by 2050, with most of those displaced people moving to cities. Forced migration is the human face of the global climate crisis and cities are sanctuaries for many migrants. Cities in the Global North and South must [...]
9 November, 2021 - On 31 October, World Cities Day, the Diplomatic Courier published a short article on the GPM, the Annual Summit 2021 in Palermo, and the position papers produced for the event. Throughout the article, the DC has highlighted the key points from each thematic brief and debate from the Palermo Summit. City [...]
4 November 2021 - Mayor Peter Kurz, Chair of the GPM, hosted the panel "The Local Green Deal: Achieving Climate Neutrality by 2030 with Mannheim's Innovative Governance Approach" during the Multilevel Action Pavilion, the home of cities and regions at COP26 in Glasgow. The Green Deal is an initiative by the European Commission from 2019. [...]
4 November, 2021- "Climate change is real, it is here, now. It is not something from the future" - GPM Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr is part of COP 26, pushing for urgent climate action and the involvement of mayors and local leaders for addressing the consequences of climate change. She has highlighted how in Freetown, Sierra [...]
3 November, 2021 - Nonprofit and nonpartisan organization Welcoming America, and the Global Mayors Task Force on Climate and Migration from C40 Cities and the Mayors Migration Council have signed the CALL TO ACTION: Climate change, cities and forced migration: Advancing knowledge, action and collaboration from the Global Parliament of Mayors. The call to action [...]
22 October, 2021 - The GPM has appointed Grace Mary Mugasa, Uganda’s Minister of State for Public Services, as Honorary Member of the GPM. The Honorary Membership is awarded to mayors that have shown consistent and outstanding support to the GPM and distinguish themselves by meritorious service to the furtherance of the GPM through significant [...]
