The Global Parliament of Mayors is a governance body of, by and for mayors from all continents with a vision to the world in which mayors, their cities and networks are equal partners in building global governance for an inclusive and sustainable world
GPM endorses the Mannheim Message 2020, responding to the European Green Deal
7 October 2020 - The Daily Board agrees to endorse the Mannheim-message of ICLEI Europe on Local Green Deals for a carbon neutral, sustainable and inclusive Europe. With the Mannheim Message2020 published on 21 September [...]
Is the Global Parliament of Mayors a game changer?
2 October 2020 - If they work together, mayors can not only effect change at the local level but also far beyond the city limits. The Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM) thus seeks [...]
GPM Open Letter included in UN report
Cities as UN partners for the future of multilateralism 22 September 2020 - At yesterday’s UN high level meeting of Heads of State and Government to commemorate the UN 75th anniversary Secretary-General Guterres presented the [...]
Press Release: Representatives of hundreds of cities call for halving violence by 2030
21 September 2020 - Today Mayor Marvin Rees (Bristol, UK), member of the Executive Committee of the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM) will deliver an international resolution to accelerate efforts to halve violence by 2030 [...]
Producing Resources For Cities To Manage Covid-19
11 September 2020 - While COVID-19 has spread rapidly in urban and rural areas alike, scholars in the Center for Global Health Science & Security (CGHSS) at Georgetown University Medical Center have been working on [...]
Resolution on Reducing Violence in Cities
28 October 2020 - To align to the UN General Assembly’s focus on reducing urban violence and to deliver the Sustainable Development Goal 16 – “to reduce violence everywhere” [...]
GPM Joins the 40 Days Safer Cities Challenge
Between June and September 2020, more than 60 city councils signed off on the resolution on violence reduction together with 6 city networks representing over 400 metropolitan areas. The GPM is proud to join the 40 [...]
Press Release UN75: UN and Cities of The World
10 September 2020 – The Mayors that gather in the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM) urge the United Nations to recognize the important role of cities for a multilateral and rules-based international political system and [...]
Why maps matter in our response to COVID-19
20 August 2020 - The most useful maps and data visualizations of the COVID-19 pandemic have helped us understand, respond to and recover from the crisis; several maps seek to estimate the potential spread of [...]
The GPM congratulates Mayor Grace Mary Mugasa of Hoima
17 August 2020 - The GPM congratulates Mayor Grace Mary Mugasa of Hoima (Uganda) on the recent launch of the city status of Hoima as one of the 15 new cities in Uganda. Obtaining the [...]