Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy
General
Name of initiative | Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate Energy |
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LPAA initiative | No |
NAZCA Initiative | Yes |
Website address | https://www.globalcovenantofmayors.org/ |
Related initiatives | |
Starting year | 2017 |
End year | |
Secretariat | Global Secretariat: info@globalcovenantofmayors.org
boulevard Charlemagne 1, Bruxelles 1041, Belgium |
Organisational structure | The Board, constituted of appointed mayors or local government officials, provides strategic direction for the initiative. European Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič and former New York Mayor and UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change Michael Bloomberg co-chair the Board. Former UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Christiana Figueres, serves as Vice-Chair. Current UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Patricia Espinosa, joins the Board as an Advisor and Observer.
The Founders Council is made up of C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), UN Habitat, European Commission, European Union Committee of the Regions, Joint Research Centre, Climate Alliance, Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), Eurocities, Energy Cities and European Federation of Agencies and Regions for Energy and the Environment (FEDARENE). The Founders Council, with its subsidiary technical working groups, ensures that the Global Covenant of Mayors continues to serve, and be supported by cities and local authorities they represent worldwide. Regional Covenants are the Global Covenant’s local networks of signatories, supporters and other stakeholders in a region or in a country. They deploy technical assistance and engage with local governments, coordinate with all relevant local partners and city networks, mobilize new signatories, and create locally specific and regionally responsive technical support structures. The Secretariat serves and strengthens the Global Covenant of Mayors to: • Unite and connect a global coalition of cities and local governments • Reinforce and amplify the impact of location action • Leverage and link data to drive local climate initiatives • Accelerate and increase investment in cities and local government The Secretariat promotes coherence, identifies synergies in engagement and facilitates the exchange of best practice between Regional Covenants and organizations supporting climate action in cities. |
Geographical coverage | Global |
Name of lead organisation | Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy |
Type of lead organisation | Network/Consortium/Partnership |
Location/Nationality of lead organisation | Belgium |
Description
Description | The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy is an international alliance of cities and local governments with a shared long-term vision of promoting and supporting voluntary action to combat climate change and move to a low emission, resilient society. |
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Objectives | |
Activities | The Global Covenant of Mayors serves cities and local governments by mobilizing and supporting ambitious, measurable, planned climate and energy action in their communities by working with city/regional networks, national governments and
other partners to achieve our vision. |
One or two success stories achieved |
Monitoring and Impacts
Function of initiative | Implementation, Capacity building | ||||
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Activity of initiative | Goal setting (ex-ante), Training and education | ||||
Indicators |
Goal setting (ex-ante) — Total Mitigation
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Goals | |||||
Comments on indicators and goals | The goal in 2030 is taken from the report: "Individual actors, collective initiatives and their impact on global greenhouse gas emissions", New Climate, PBL, and Yale 2018. | ||||
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Participants
Participants | Number | Names | ||||||||
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Members | 9149 | |||||||||
Companies | 0 | |||||||||
Business organisations | 0 | |||||||||
Research and educational organisations | 0 | |||||||||
Non-governmental organisations | 0 | |||||||||
National states | 0 | |||||||||
Governmental actors | 0 | |||||||||
Regional / state / county actors | 0 | |||||||||
City / municipal actors | 9149 | |||||||||
Intergovernmental organisations | 0 | |||||||||
Financial Institutions | 0 | |||||||||
Faith based organisations | 0 | |||||||||
Other members | 0 | |||||||||
Supporting partners | 0 | |||||||||
Number of members in the years |
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Have only national states as participators | No |
Theme
Transport | Agriculture | Forestry | Business | Financial institutions | Buildings | Industry | Waste | Cities and subnational governments | Short Term Pollutants | International maritime transport | Energy Supply | Fluorinated gases | Energy efficiency | Renewable energy | Supply chain emission reductions | Adaptation | Other | Resilience | Innovation | Energy Access and Efficiency | Private Finance |
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No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Not only have national states as participators