- For cities in the Eastern neighborhood of the European Union, please contact:  info-east@eumayors.eu  

- For cities in the Mediterranean region, please contact: info-south@eumayors.eu - For cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, please contact: covenantofmayors_ssa@yahoo.com - For cities in all other regions: Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy info@globalcovenantofmayors.org

The initiative now gathers 9,000+ local and regional authorities across 57 countries drawing on the strengths of a worldwide multi-stakeholder movement and the technical and methodological support offered by dedicated offices.

- Covenant of Mayors Board The European Covenant of Mayors Board gives local and regional leaders the opportunity to play a greater role in shaping and further guiding the initiative. Board members will also campaign for enabling frameworks for local climate and energy action from the national and European level, raising awareness about local needs among European and national decision makers.

This Board of Mayors aims to discuss the strategic orientations of the initiative, to ensure it best fits cities’ needs and is further tailored to their expectations and to foster the dialogue between the European Covenant Community and the EU institutions. The Board is composed of 7 mayors or local elected representatives.

- Covenant of Mayors Office Funded by the European Commission, the Covenant of Mayors Office provides support to the Covenant community in the following areas: Capacity Building, Communication & Awareness Raising, Reporting, Monitoring & Evaluation. The Office serves also as Help-desk for the community. The Covenant of Mayors Office is manged by a consortium of city networks including: Energy Cities, Climate Alliance, EUROCITIES, ICLEI Europe, FEDARENE and CEMR - Council of European Municipalities and Regions.

'For 2020 and beyond?' Long term goals of the Covenant of Mayors are to: Increase the number of cities making public commitments to reduce emissions, improve resilience, and enhance access to clean and affordable energy. Signatories commit to achieving or surpassing the EU and national targets regarding climate change mitigation and adaptation and energy access to all. Support multi-level governance approaches that result in more efficient achievement of results, in particular fostering the co-operation among the various government layers in each country as well as global and regional city networks and other city service providers active in this space. Advance all committed cities through all steps to compliance – for mitigation, adaptation and access to sustainable and affordable energy (target  inventory  plan  implementation). Link reported data on city climate commitments and impact to financial investments in new, low carbon, climate resilient infrastructure in cities and local governments.

Compact of Mayors commitments have also surpassed 500 with cities of all sizes from 6 continents in 94 countries. To date a total of 594 cities have made public commitments to the Compact and are making progress in achieving their annual milestones. Signatories to the EU Covenant of Mayors signatories now stand at over 7000; almost 5500 Action Plans (with an horizon 2020) are already being implemented. Since COP21 (latest update September 2016): • 300 new cities have signed up to the new commitments of the EU Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (horizon 2030, integrating mitigation, adaptation and access to sustainable and affordable energy). • The new Covenant for Mayors for Climate & Energy Reporting Framework and Guidelines has been launched in July 2016. The Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa was launched at COP21 in Paris. The first cities to benefit from financial and technical support will be announced at COP22. A Covenant of Mayors Office – SSA (CoMO-SSA) has been put in place for supporting towns and cities to join the initiative in Accra, Ghana. The Covenant of Mayors East (CoMO-East has been in place since 2011, the initiative has been very successful in mobilising and supporting cities to undertake climate action, with almost 200 cities having signed up in the Eastern Partnership countries. A new CoMO-East Secretariat, with local branches in each country, is in place since May 2016. We will be working until the end of the year to bring these under the umbrella of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy.

At EU level, the Covenant of Mayors is included in various National Action Plans in Italy, Germany, Croatia, Cyprus, Malta, Poland and other Member States. In addition, activities of the Covenant of Mayors are already explicitly mentioned in some non-EU (I)NDCs, for instance the submitted INDCs of Georgia and Armenia, as the most intensive pre-2020 mitigation action in those countries. The Global Covenant of Mayors will capitalize on these experiences. Cities and local governments wanting to join the Global Covenant of Mayors should do so through a Regional Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy or by directly by contacting the Secretariat of the Global Covenant of Mayors as long as no regional Covenant exists. Cities joining the Global Covenant commit to achieving or surpassing the relevant national commitment(s) regarding climate change mitigation and adaptation and energy access to all. We aim to build on the critical involvement of partner institutions to bring in the engagement of other national and/or local governments in other regions – through regional covenants as appropriate. These would be coordinated with the Global Covenant of Mayors Secretariat, for those issues providing added value to signatories – but would respond to local conditions and priorities of relevant NDCs.