On 7 November, during a bilateral meeting at the COP30 World Leaders Summit in Belém, UN Secretary-General António Guterres received the Local Leaders Forum Joint Outcome Statement, conveying a shared message from local leaders worldwide: Achieving the Paris Agreement goals depends on robust multilevel collaboration and improved access to finance for local climate action.
On behalf of thousands of cities, towns, and regions, the handover was led by a delegation of leaders, including ICLEI President Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, Mayor of Malmö, who represented the LGMA Constituency, the voice of cities and other subnationals in the UNFCCC process.
Together with Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, C40 Cities’ Vice Chair and Global Ambassador for the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM); Igor Normando, Mayor of Belém; and Helder Barbalho, Governor of Pará -host city and state of COP30-, these leaders represented a unified voice for collective global climate action.
The Statement—resulting from last week’s COP30 Local Leaders Forum co-hosted by the COP30 Presidency and Bloomberg Philanthropies in Rio de Janeiro—outlines three clear offers to national governments at COP30: Partnering in implementation, unlocking finance, and making COP a process of implementation and accountability.
Also in attendance were Anacláudia Rossbach, Executive Director of UN-Habitat, and Fatimatou Abdel Malick, President of the Regional Council of Nouakchott, Mauritania, and Co-President of UCLG Africa, reinforcing the shared commitment to empower cities and regions as key actors in meeting global climate goals.
Read the Joint Outcome Statement here.
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