New York, June 25, 2017 - Michael R. Bloomberg will throw his financial might into helping beleaguered American mayors, creating a $200 million philanthropic program aimed at backing inventive policies at the city level and giving mayors a stronger hand in national politics. Mr. Bloomberg intends to announce the initiative on Monday in a speech [...]
Aarhus, June, 2017 - 12 Mayors representing Business Region Aarhus in Denmark have joined the Global Parliament of Mayors. The signing ceremony took place at the People's Political Festival (Folkemoedet); an annual political event which runs over four days in June. This year, the festival gathered around 100,000 people, individuals as well as interest groups, [...]
Mannheim, June 3, 2017 - The recent decision of U.S. President Trump to withdraw from the Paris Agreement (COP21) underlines the imperative for cities around the world to assume the lead on climate change. The Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM) joins literally thousands of cities, countries, businesses and civil society organizations committed to meeting and [...]
NY - June 6, 2017 - The world is facing unprecedented levels of population displacement. At least 65 million people are on the move, including 21.3 million refugees and 31 million internally displaced persons since the beginning of 2016. That means that one in every 100 people globally is displaced from their home. The last time humanity came even [...]
Chicago, June 3, 2017 - The world is facing unprecedented and catastrophic levels of population displacement. At least 65 million people are on the move, including 21 million refugees and 41 million internally displaced persons. That means that 1 in every 100 people globally is displaced from their home. There is not just one global [...]
Atlanta, May 2017 – Atlanta’s Mayor Kasim Reed: “We are proud to join the Global Parliament of Mayors, an international network for sharing best practices, resources, and our cumulative talent. Around the world, cities are ascendant. Most of the world’s population and GDP are concentrated in cities, and this will only get stronger. This is [...]
‘How to fix climate change: put cities, not countries, in charge: It can’t be left to dysfunctional nation states to tackle – but as Oslo and Seoul have shown, metropolitan centres can rise to the challenge of global warming. Climate change is the most urgent challenge facing humankind. Other issues make headlines: terrorism kills; inequality [...]
From Sunday September 24 to Tuesday September 26, the 2nd Annual Convening of the GPM will be hosted by the City of Stavanger, Norway. The Annual Convening aims to bring together the GPM mayors from all over the world, with experts and (UN) organizations, to share their experiences in addressing global critical issues in cities [...]
New York, April 25 - Dr Barber, Founder of the Global Parliament of Mayors died on April 24th. In his last weeks, he wrote: “ Thank you, dear friends, for your leadership in the Global Parliament of Mayors which I believe stands ready to become a governance organization of great significance that will provide alternatives to [...]
Kandahar, April 2017 - Kandahar's Mayor Roshaan Wolusmal: "For the first time in human history, most of us live in cities. Researchers' predictions indicate that urbanization speed will further increase in almost all parts of the world. As cities grow, perhaps our most serious concern should be how they expand and how we can fulfill the basic requirements of [...]
