Strengthening Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Urban Development

Fragmented responsibilities and high coordination costs often stop cities from acting together on climate change. This brief explains how metropolitan governance helps solve these collective action problems. They occur both between levels of government and among neighboring municipalities, departments, and sectors. The brief presents tools such as stakeholder dialogues based on the Talanoa approach and metropolitan governance observatories, and stresses gender-equal representation. It also includes monitoring indicators and a case study of two National-Local Dialogues in Brazil (2023 and 2025).