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Gender justice is justice for all: UN event highlights the importance of local and regional action and cooperation

At the 67th edition of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), four local government represe...

Gender Equality

Gender Equality

Join us at UN CSW67 Parallel event on gender justice

13 February 2023

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

Valérie Dumontet to represent Cités Unies France in New York

President of Cités Unies France SDG group and Vice-president of the Aude department, Valérie Dumon...

Local and regional governments are taking part in HLPF 2021!

The meeting of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) is held from Tuesday...

Discover the RFSC: a tool to plan, deliver and monitor local sustainable development

How can we turn our cities into more liveable environments? How can our territories make progress to...

Local government takes a seat at the UN table

13 October 2020

75 years already! That’s how long it’s been since the creation of the United Nations, an organis...

Watch out – Upcoming activities around the UN & the SDGs

24 September 2020

While 2020 has been so far a challenging year for all of us, it also marks the 75th anniversary of t...

HLPF 2020: everything virtual but real talks with local and regional governments

The 2020 High Level Political Forum (HLPF) of the United Nations on Sustainable Development was offi...

Urban Development

Urban Development

World Urban Forum: Here’s where Europe’s local and regional governments will play an active role

7 February 2020

Today, 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and this proportion is expected to incr...

Local and regional elected leaders attended Sustainable Development and Climate Action summits in New York

A joint PLATFORMA-CEMR delegation was in New York last week to attend the UN summits and high-level ...

Nine local and regional elected officials will represent PLATFORMA at UN SDG & Climate Summits

20 September 2019

A PLATFORMA-CEMR joint delegation of local and regional elected officials is attending the United Na...

Dive into the perfect summer: our top six reports to read at the beach!

Your suitcase is almost full and you don’t yet know what book to read this summer on the beach? Yo...

A global push to localise SDGs: Local leaders meet UN Secretary General

PLATFORMA and CEMR’s joint delegation of local and regional elected officials was everywhere in ...

Urban Development

Urban Development

World’s first ever UN Habitat Assembly promises local-friendly future

We all live somewhere. And we all want the place we live in to provide a good quality of life. At th...

Deutscher Städtetag and partners are finalists in the SDG Action Awards of the United Nations

On 2nd of May in Bonn (Germany), the German Association of Cities (Deutscher Städtetag), the Bertel...

The Commission announced the winners of the 1st European Sustainability Award

On Monday (8 April 2019), the European Commission announced the 7 winners of the 1st European Sustai...

PLATFORMA is represented at the Cities Summit in Nairobi

The fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-4) will take place from 11-15 March 2019, in...

Venice 2030: the conclusions of the multi-stakeholder dialogue are online

28 January 2019

The conclusion of the November ‘Venice City Solutions 2030-Financing the SDGs at the local l...

Just out: New study on how to assess the UN Global Goals on the ground

Towns and regions still lack financial resources to monitor the implementation of the Sustainable De...

Urban Development

Urban Development

Local and regional leaders met UN Secretary General

8 September 2017

“Expectations are high on the objectives set by the UN towards local and regional governments;...

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