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Ambassador Ivo Daalder, President Chicago Council on Global Affairs, named GPM Advisory Committee Chair
12 May 2021 – Ivo Daalder will take on the role of Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM). He succeeds Professor Sheila Foster (Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA) and [...]
Keynote Speech Antonio Vitorinio, IOM DG
20 April 2021 - Over 143 million people will be displaced by 2050 in Africa, Latin America and South Asia if we do not take steps to address climate change [...]
Coalition of City Leaders push for Climate Action
21 April 2021 – More than twenty Mayors and city leaders representing 19 countries from around the world convened online yesterday to discuss the urgent issue of climate-forced displacement. They debated how to move forward [...]
Mayoral high-level meeting on Global Climate Challenges on 20 April, 16.00 – 18.00 hrs CEST
19 April 2021 - You can find information about the programme on this website: https://globalparliamentofmayors.org/unitingmayors/ to register please click here. Mayors around the world are invited to participate in the high-level meeting: “Uniting Mayors: Local Solutions to [...]
Pre-registration for the GPM Annual Summit 2021 in Palermo is open!
14 April 2021 - The GPM Annual Summit 2021 will take place on 21-23 October 2021 and be hosted by Mayor Leoluca Orlando of Palermo, Italy. For the first time ever, the GPM Summit will [...]
The Mayors Podcast with Mayor Stephen Benjamin
7 April 2021 - Mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, Stephen Benjamin joined the Mayors podcast hosted by Richard Florida and Padden Guy Murphy. Mayor Benjamin has dedicated his life to public service in South Carolina. [...]
GPM Mayor Leoluca Orlando Received Freedom From Fear Award
1 April 2021 - The GPM is very proud to announce that GPM Mayor Leoluca Orlando of Palermo, Italy, has been awarded the Freedom from Fear Award, an annual award presented to acknowledge achievements of [...]
GPM supports PioC Statement on International Women’s Day 2021
8 March 2021 - The Global Parliament of Mayors has signed onto a Joint Statement to call for women’s leadership & political participation to build peaceful, just & inclusive cities. The statement has been initiated [...]
GPM Summit 2021 Postponed to 21-23 October 2021
3 March 2021 – Because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Executive Committee has announced that the GPM Annual Summit is postponed to 21-23 October 2021 in Palermo, Italy. For the first time the GPM [...]
The start of the project “Uniting Mayors: Local Solutions to Global Climate Challenges”
2 March 2021 - On February 25, mayors from around the world came together to discuss the interconnected issues of climate change and forced migration. The virtual session marked the start of the project “Uniting [...]