{"id":2702,"date":"2017-11-14T05:11:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T05:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icleiseas.org\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2017-11-16T04:02:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T04:02:05","slug":"forging-ahead-towards-an-inclusive-safe-resilient-and-sustainable-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/2017\/11\/14\/forging-ahead-towards-an-inclusive-safe-resilient-and-sustainable-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Forging ahead towards an inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable future"},"content":{"rendered":"
From ICLEI’s Coverage on COP 23 in Bonn, Germany<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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The Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action High-Level Segment on Climate and Sustainable Development Goal 11. The day was filled with climate leaders looking to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable – a critical part of achieving global goals on climate and sustainability.<\/div>\n
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Christiana Figueres, Vice Chair of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, Convener of Mission 2020 and former UNFCCC Executive Secretary,\u00a0acknowledged the significance of the Paris Agreement but called for continued vigilance and urgent action to raise ambition. The commitments made in Paris are not nearly enough to reach the goal of keeping global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius. The Paris Agreement is structured to include a global stocktake every five years and the stock-take processes will begin next year at the 2018 Facilitative Dialogue.<\/p>\n

Climate leaders are pushing for greater ambition and creating the frameworks to make that ambition possible. Governor Jerry Brown of California spoke at several events throughout the day, spreading his message, sending a call to action to crowds of leaders, experts and organizers. He highlighted climate achievements in the State of California, but acknowledged that progress has been slow.<\/p>\n

Now California is leading the way, but the rest of the world cannot take so long to implement change. \u201cWe do not have another 40 years,\u201d he said. We have to act now.<\/p>\n

Park Won Soon, Mayor of Seoul and President of ICLEI,\u00a0joined the discussion at the opening session. He shared the\u00a0new solar project in Seoul, City of Sunlight, and attributed the success that Seoul has seen in tackling climate change to the strength of his citizens. \u201cCitizens are the answer, said Mayor Park. “You are the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh of Malm\u00f6, Sweden,\u00a0emphasized the importance of integrating local and global goals. \u201cLocal governments and local action are central to the delivery of global goals,” said Mayor Jammeh.<\/p>\n

“What happens in the rest of the world has a direct impact on our city and our citizens and everything we do in Malm\u00f6 also affects the world around us.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is clear that local and regional governments are critical in this movement \u2013 it is clear through the commitments they are making, the actions they are taking and the coalitions they are forming together and with their partners.<\/p>\n

They are setting the standard, advancing sustainable urban development\u00a0and encouraging their national governments to raise climate\u00a0ambitions, putting urban development at the center, while working alongside them in close partnership.<\/p>\n

Momentum is building. This show of strength by local and regional governments is exemplified in the Bonn-Fiji Agreement, adopted by local and regional governments on 12 November 2017 at the Climate Summit of Local and Regional Leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From ICLEI’s Coverage on COP 23 in Bonn, Germany The Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action High-Level Segment on Climate and Sustainable Development Goal 11. The day was filled with climate leaders looking to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable – a critical part of achieving global goals on climate and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}