SDGs

Lessons learned on city-to-city partnerships

The Flemish municipalities of Brasschaat, Edegem and Herent went through a process, from 2019 to the...
Read more

Historical step: the Advisory Group of the UN Secretary-General on Local and Regional Governments takes off

On 6 October, 2023, the long-awaited Advisory Group of the United Nations Secretary-General on Local...
Read more

Mayors mobilise in New York to accelerate the implementation of the Global Goals

Over the weekend, a dozen of European mayors and local and regional leaders are taking part to the S...
Read more

Strategic Partnership between Dutch MFA and VNG International for Sustainable Development through improved Local Governance in Uganda

Read more

Discover our new study on progress made by local governments in promoting the Global Goals

The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) and PLATFORMA are releasing today (12 July...
Read more

UCLG & NALAS cooperate to support the Voluntary Subnational Review on SDGs in Romania

UCLG World Secretariat and NALAS supported ACOR (NALAS member) in Romania and the Romanian Associati...
Read more

A Majorcan library pioneer in creating an SDG laboratory based on Fons Mallorquí’s exhibition

From 17 April to 19 May, the Es Rafal library in Sa Pobla (Spain), became a space to discover what t...
Read more

Municipalities in the Netherlands join forces for SDG action

On 1st June 2023, representatives of municipalities from all over the Netherlands gathered for the G...
Read more

Mallorca: four new Global Citizenship Education projects have started

The General Assembly of partner entities of Fons Mallorquí, held last March, approved four Global C...
Read more

Flemish cities & municipalities are showing the way

Flemish cities and municipalities are pioneers in translating the SDGs locally. In doing so, they no...
Read more

Municipalities push for regional cooperation by signing the SDG declaration

The province of Gelderland and the municipality of Winterswijk in the Netherlands organised a SDG Da...
Read more

Redoubling efforts to achieve more international commitment to the SDGs

“The 2030 Agenda needs less abstraction and more concreteness” said the Secretary General for Ex...
Read more

Join us at UN CSW67 Parallel event on gender justice

Four local government representative networks are joining forces at the 67th edition of the UN Commi...
Read more

Week of the Sustainable Municipality | VVSG wants to inspire local government associations!

The ‘Week of the Sustainable Municipality’ is an annual public campaign aimed firstly at...
Read more

The Pact of the Future: for people, planet and government

The Pact for the Future of Humanity has been adopted by the UCLG World Council during its gathering ...
Read more

Valuing decentralised cooperation within the Pact for the Future

The value of decentralised cooperation is acknowledged in the Pact for the Future adopted at the lat...
Read more

Hannah-Lea Braun: New generations of local and regional leaders are at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals

CEMR and PLATFORMA were present at last month’s High Level Political Forum (HLPF), a key even...
Read more

PLATFORMAwards | 2 more weeks to apply!

The deadline to apply to the third edition of the PLATFORMAwards has been postponed to 31 July! This...
Read more

The Dutch Voluntary Subnational Review are now available

The Netherlands Association of Municipalities (VNG), the Interprovincial Consultation (IPO) and the ...
Read more

HLPF | Our annual report on the SDGs goes digital

Available for the first time in an online format, PLATFORMA and CEMR have just published their fifth...
Read more