As recalled at #COP17, #LRGs are 🔑 to achieve land restoration, biodiversity conservation, climate resilience & water security. Not only as implementers, but as co-creators. 🌏This is why climate is one of the 8 pillars of UCLG’s Local Social Covenant: t.ly/M_xBJ

#Listen2Cities #HLPF2026! The LRGs Day showed that the road to 2030 & beyond depends on local action. Stronger local governments, universal local public services & renewed multilevel governance are essential to turn global commitments into real change for people & communities.

🟡#Listen2Cities at #HLPF2026! Closing the LRGs Day @UCLG_Saiz highlights "To deliver the #SDGs, we need renewed, networked and inclusive multilateralism. This calls for a stronger subnational reporting linked to national processes."

🟡 #LRGs Day 🌏From the #Countdown2030 to the post #2030Agenda: how can local action drive transformation? Discussing a renewed multilateralism, stronger local governance and the partnerships needed to accelerate progress towards the #SDGs #Listen2Cities at #HLPF2026!

🟡 Local & Regional Governments Day Facilitated by members of the GTF, panel 2 showcases how #LRGs are delivering quality public services, tackling inequalities and building stronger communities through collaboration, innovation and local leadership #Listen2Cities at #HLPF2026!

🟡#Listen2Cities at #HLPF2026! 10 years of subnational reporting!🎉 The 10th edition of Towards the Localization of the #SDGs is out! The report shows how #LRGs, through public services provision, are advancing on the achievement of the #203OAgenda 🔗global-taskforce.org/news/10…

🟡#Listen2Cities at #HLPF2026! President of the @NkttRegion and @uclg_org Copresident @ABDELMALICKf opens the #LRGs Day. A space for political dialogue, collective strategy where LRGs will reaffirm multilevel cooperation as an essential condition for sustainable development.

🔵#Listen2Cities #HLPF2026 🗣️@NavidHanif_UN, ASG for Economic Development, @UNDESA 👏The future of sustainable development will be shaped across governments. #LRGs are essential partners beyond 2030. UN DESA remains committed to building the partnerships to deliver the SDGs.

🔵#Listen2Cities #HLPF2026 🗣️@AnacludiaRossb1, ED @UNHABITAT “Localizing the SDGs is the only way to close the implementation gap. Through @Local2030 Coalition, we are working together to support cities and local governments with the tools, partnerships, & platforms they need."

🔵#HLPF2026 🗣️@Paloma__PG, Representative of @gobqro at @gobcdmx 💬People must be placed at the 💙 of public policy. We need collaboration across sectors, & participation from our communities. This is how we achieved a plan to bring people out of poverty & ensured food security.

🔵#Listen2Cities #HLPF2026 Oumar Sylla, Director of the Regional Office for Africa, @UNHABITAT : 💬With 3 billion people living in inadequate housing and the need for 96,000 new homes every day, #LRGs must be at the center of urban development & deliver on the New Urban Agenda.

🔵 #Listen2Cities #HLPF2026 Giorgio Maione, Regional Minister for Environment and Climate, Lombardy. Subnational governments are driving the green transition by: ✅ Advancing ambitious climate policies ✅ Attracting investment ✅ Strengthening territorial resilience

🔵 #HLPF2026 Yuri Colorado, Mayor of Muisne, lays out the experience of the city: 🚰 In a canton where 99% of basic public services didn’t exist, international cooperation was key to deliver: from expanding access to safe drinking water to tackling child malnutrition.

#HLPF2026 #Listen2Cities Antoine Le Solleuz, Deputy Mayor of Nancy, @CitesUniesFR 📌We need real commitments to meet the goals by 2030. We call on the @UN to recognize #LRG networks as partners, especially in areas such as the climate crises, to strengthen multilateralism.