At the High-level Opening of the Multilevel Action Pavilion on 11 November, Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, Mayor of Malmö, Sweden, presented the six asks of the LGMA COP31 Position, endorsed by 80 networks of subnational governments. LGMA Focal Point Ariel Dekovic then handed the Position to Ingrid Lundberg, representing Australia’s COP31 Presidency of Negotiations.
Leaders from Boulder, USA; Catalonia, Spain; Eskişehir and Muğla, Türkiye; and Yeosu, Republic of Korea, together with the European Committee of the Regions, set out what the asks mean on the ground. Partners from CHAMP, UN-Habitat, the Global Covenant of Mayors, Bloomberg Philanthropies and GIZ connected them to the wider COP31 agenda.
