Cities Delivering Climate Action That Works for…

Cities around the world are demonstrating what an inclusive and just transition looks like in practice, delivering climate action in urban areas that tackle inequalities and benefit communities with clean energy, safer transport, better housing, good green jobs, and economic opportunities.

In this session, city leaders will share inspiring examples of ambitious local action advancing SDGs. Examples include building the urban climate workforce of the future, ensuring urban data centres are sustainable and benefit local communities, creating new good green jobs, improving working conditions for informal waste workers, and ensuring frontline populations benefit from the phaseout of fossil fuels and rollout of renewable energy.

Moderator

• Molly Taft, Senior climate writer, WIRED

Speakers

• Eric Garcetti, former mayor of Los Angeles and Ambassador for Global Climate Diplomacy 

• Anne Hidalgo, Former Mayor of Paris (2014-2026) and Global Ambassador for the Global Covenant of Mayors 

• Camila Assis, General Coordinator for International Relations at São Paulo's Municipal Secretariat for International Relations (SMRI) 

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Join the United Nations Department of Global Communications live broadcast during UNGA81 from 21-25 September. Discover the transformations, innovations, and global solutions required to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Organized by the UN Department of Global Communications in collaboration with the PVBLIC Foundation, the SDG Media Zone takes the conversation on advancing the 2030 Agenda out of the policy sphere and into the public discourse through impactful in-depth interviews and conversations on global issues that matter to people everywhere.