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 research report ‘Cities At The Intersection: Culture, Climate and Migration’ conducted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Indian Institute for Human Settlement and part of the GPM project “Uniting Mayors: Local Solutions to Global Climate Challenges” is available on this website. The report is built around four [...]
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 [...]
13 October 2022 - The Global Parliament of Mayors congratulates GPM Mayor Óscar Escobar from Palmira, Colombia, for winning the UCLG Peace Prize 2022! The city of Palmira was crowned winner of the UCLG Peace Prize 2022 during the 7th World Congress and Summit of Local and Regional Leaders in Daejeon, South Korea for the [...]
10 October 2022 - The Global Parliament of Mayors is excited to share that GPM Mayor Óscar Escobar from Palmira, Colombia, has been nominated and is one of the finalists of the UCLG Peace Prize 2022! Alongside four cities, Palmira has been recognized for its efforts in tackling urban violence. Moving away from the habitual [...]
7 October 2022 – The General Meeting of the GPM has appointed Roshaan Wolusmal, former mayor of Kandahar and former Minister of State of Urban Development and Housing in Afghanistan, 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 [...]
7 October 2022 – The GPM has appointed Leoluca Orlando, former mayor of Palermo, Italy, 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 and ongoing participation [...]
7 October 2022– The Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM) General Meeting has elected Mayor Manuel de Araujo, mayor of the city of Quelimane, Mozambique, to the Executive Committee. Mayor de Araujo is mandated for the next three year. He will be joining the mayors from Banjul (the Gambia), Braga (Portugal), Ghent (Belgium), Katowice (Poland), Mannheim [...]
