Post by World Resources Institute

Globally, 1/3 of potential urban emission reductions depends on collaboration 🤝 between local, regional and national governments — making multilevel partnerships critical to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.    This week, the new nine-country Coalition for High-Ambition Multilevel Partnerships (CHAMP) Steering Group met for the first time in-person in Bonn, 🇩🇪, to shape the coalition’s strategic direction and align on priorities for its forthcoming Implementation Roadmap, the guiding blueprint for the next three years of #CHAMPclimate.    Co-Chaired by Brazil 🇧🇷 and Germany 🇩🇪, the Steering Group also includes Colombia 🇨🇴, the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴, Ethiopia 🇪🇹, the European Union 🇪🇺, Kenya 🇰🇪, the Philippines 🇵🇭 and Sweden 🇸🇪. It holds overall strategic responsibility for the coalition, with the 77 CHAMP-endorsing countries (plus the EU) leading delivery on the ground.    Across yesterday’s discussions and today's CHAMP Endorsers Reception, the message was clear: To meaningfully deliver on our climate goals, we must strengthen multilevel climate action and shift CHAMP's focus from ambition ➡️ to delivery.    Read more ➡️ champ-climate.org WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities C40 Cities Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) ICLEI UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) Bloomberg Philanthropies Climate High-Level Champions Ministério das Cidades Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection Under2 Coalition Rogier van den Berg Antonio Da Costa e Silva Jaeckel Ulf Mauricio Galván Gómez Gabriela C. Márquez González Abas Mohammed Brian Mounde Noralene Uy, PhD Olle Dierks Samed Agirbas Pandora Batra Michael Doust