28 May 2020 - Had there been no COVID-19 pandemic, the Partners Consultative Meeting of the Global Network on Safer Cities (GNSC) would have been as important but very different. We would have celebrated our 25 years of work actualised in the development and adoption of United Nations System-wide Guidelines on Safer Cities and Human [...]
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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 [...]
