27 May 2020 - GPM Chair Peter Kurz, Mayor of Mannheim, together with the Executive Director of UN-Habitat, the UN Human Settlements Programme, Maimunah Mohd Sharif, opened a two-day online conference on worldwide urban safety and security. The webinar was organised jointly by UN-Habitat and the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM), of which the Mayor [...]
20 May 2020 - This week, the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, in collaboration with the Global Parliament of Mayors, Eurocities, UK100, Alliance des Collectivites Pour la Qualite de l'Air, and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, issued this open letter to global financial leaders. As Covid-19 makes painfully clear, our current social, economic and environmental systems [...]
1 May 2020 - The pandemic will change urban life forever. Foreign Policy asked 11 leading global experts in urban policy, planning, history, and health for their predictions, read the outcome here: special cities edition (foreign policy may 2020)
28 April 2020 - The GPM endorsed the Solidarity Statement 'Advancing Health, Reforcing Peace' by Peace in Our Cities. Mayors stand in solidarity with one another on the frontlines of response to COVID-19. Inspired by the United Nations Secretary-General’s appeal for a global ceasefire and appeal for peace in homes, we: Urge an immediate [...]
24 April 2020 - In every crisis it is the poor, sick, disabled, homeless and displaced who suffer the most. The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Migrants and refugees, people who shed one life in search for another, are among the most at risk. This is because they are often confined to sub-standard and overcrowded homes, [...]
April 22, 2020 - The Global Parliament of Mayors initiated the Corona Crisis: Mayors Act Now Campaign to keep mayors informed and connected during the biggest global challenge of the 21st century, but pandemic preparedness is no new priority for the GPM. In 2018, mayors supported the GPM Bristol Declaration, which was established with the [...]
22 April 2020 - Call from Mayor Leoluca Orlando of Palermo and GPM Executive Committee member: The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has recently declared that “we need a Marshall Plan for Europe”. I am contacting you to ask you to join our initiative and relaunch it together with Mayors from [...]
22 April 2020 - In a joint letter published together with the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, Milan, Giuseppe Sala and Barcelona, Ada Colau; Mayors have asked the European Union to not apply austerity measures as a way out of the economic crisis resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. Colau, Hidalgo, Halsema and Sala [...]
