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The Hague winner of World Smart City Award 2021
23 November, 2021 - The GPM congratulates the city of The Hague with the award "World Smart City 2021". The award was presented on the 17th of November during the Smart City Expo World Congress [...]
Ghent awarded the title ‘European Youth Capital 2024’
22 November, 2021 - The GPM wants to extend its congratulations to the city of Ghent, which was just awarded the title of European Youth Capital 2024. On the 18th of November 2021, the European [...]
Call to Action on Climate Migration Unites Hundreds of Cities Around the World
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 [...]
Blog on Youth Voices on Climate Migration
15 November, 2021 - In collaboration with the British Council' the GPM is giving a platform to youth voices to share their perspective on climate related migration. This blog series is part of the joint [...]
Geordin Hill-Lewis, new mayor of Cape Town, South Africa
10 November, 2021 - The GPM wants to extend a warm welcome to Geordin Hill-Lewis, recently appointed as the new mayor of Cape Town, South Africa. Mayor Hill-Lewis promised to focus on the protection of [...]
The Diplomatic Courier on the GPM Palermo Summit 2021
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 GPM welcomes Mayor Asmaa Rhlalou, mayor of Rabat, Morocco
8 November, 2021 - The Global Parliament of Mayors gives a warm welcome to the recently appointed Mayor of Rabat, Morocco, Asmaa Rhalou. Mayor Rhlalou is the first female mayor of Rabat, having received 58 [...]
GPM Chair Mayor Peter Kurz at COP26
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 [...]
Freetown to Treetown – Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr on COP 26
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 [...]
Welcoming America and the Task Force on Climate Migration (C40&MMC) Support GPM Call to Action
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 [...]