📍@UNEP 12th Annual Subcommittee meeting At the Official Opening, we delivered a statement on behalf of the Local Authorities Major Group, putting forward 10 concrete proposals for stronger local pathways. 🌍 Regional priorities require multilevel governance. And UNEP’s impact must be measured where people live and work. Let’s move from consultation to co-creation, from participation to partnership, and from recognition to institutionalized multilevel governance.

🟢 #Listen2Cities at #COP17 🌐”As mayors we turn international decisions into concrete local action. As President of UCLG, I consider strengthening the power of our networks on the international arena and moving from short term action to long lasting international efforts. 🏙️🌳I invite you to join forces for cities to thrive in harmony with nature.” 💬 @u_ibrahim_altay, President of UCLG and Mayor of @KonyaInt #UNCCDCOP17

🟢 #Listen2Cities at #COP17 “🏛️Participation must go beyond access. #LRGs should not simply be beneficiaries or implementers of an agenda designed elsewhere. They need to be partners in shaping it. 🌐This is also why the @GlobalTaskforce is important: it allows our constituency to bring together experiences and priorities from cities and regions across the world and bring them collectively into global policy processes such as the @UNCCD and the RAA.” @UCLGAfrica President Oumar Ba at today’s flagship event co-hosted by Riyadh Action Agenda at #UNCCDCOP17

🟢#Listen2Cities at #UNCCDCOP17 "Pour des politiques durables sur la désertification, il faut mettre un terme aux politiques en sillo et que les politiques nationales s'appuient sur les collectivités locales pour la définition et la mise en oeuvre." 💬 André Viola @andreviola11, Member of the Aude Departmental Assembly and UCLG Special Envoy on Water @Conseil #COP17Mongolia #COP17

🟢 #Listen2Cities at #COP17 “🌲Land is at the center of our livelihoods, but land is beyond urban–land is also rural. 🌐#UNCCDCOP17 Mayors’ Forum is the center of the discussion because cities collect our people and are where our future grows. This Forum needs to show the world that UNCCD starts politically from the ground up. 🖋️There is understanding of responsibility at the local level, and that what is discussed on paper will also go down to the vulnerable people we are serving on the ground.” 💬 Ms. Yasmine Fouad, @UNCCD Executive Secretary 📷: Kiara Worth/UNFCC/Abos Africa

🟢 #Listen2Cities at #COP17 🌐During the closing session of today’s #UNCCDCOP17 Mayors’ Forum, local leaders from across the globe explored future directions for cooperation. 🏛️By advocating for a stronger role of #LRGs in the international policy process, local and regional governments continue to combat desertification together. #COP17Mongolia

🟢 #Listen2Cities at #COP17 “ 🌿Our everyday life in Mongolia demonstrates that nature and cities can not live separately: all natural events transcend frontiers and cities. 🌐#UNCCDCOP17 Mayors’ Forum is a major opportunity to learn and share the solutions to work together. #LRGs have a great role to play and need to be recognized as such within the @UNCCD and beyond in the UN System.” 💬H.E. Purevdagva Byaruuzana, Mayor of Ulaanbaatar

🟢 #Listen2Cities at #COP17 ✒️ Today at the #UNCCDCOP17 Mayors’ Forum, local and regional leaders from around the world signed the Ulaanbaatar Declaration. ⚖️ Calling for a strengthened role of #LRGs within the @UNCCD process, the Declaration commits to a new era of multilevel environmental governance, which places the realities of communities and territories at the heart of international decision-making. 👉 Read the Declaration: shorturl.at/1dGR4 #COP17Mongolia

🟢 #Listen2Cities at #COP17 “🏜️The solutions to desertification should be urban, rural and territorial. 🌱This #UNCCDCOP17 Mayors’ Forum needs to show the strength of urban and territorial areas to demonstrate that restoring cities and protecting landscapes go hand to hand.” 💬 @AnacludiaRossb1, Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme @UNHABITAT

🟢 #Listen2Cities at #COP17 🚰 Protecting the water cycle is key to resilient urban futures. 🌎 At the #UNCCDCOP17 Mayors’ Forum, parallel session 2 explored how #LRGs are tackling water scarcity, drought and groundwater stress through integrated water management and climate adaptation. #COP17Mongolia

🟢 #Listen2Cities at #COP17 🌐From dialogue to action at the #UNCCDCOP17 Mayors’ Forum. The closing plenary brings local solutions from #LRGs to the forefront, turning the Forum’s discussions into collective outcomes, new partnerships and stronger cooperation for resilient urban futures. #COP17Mongolia

🟢#Listen2Cities 🌐A few hours ago the Mayors’ Forum was inaugurated at #UNCCDCOP17 in Ulaanbaatar! 🌏Mayors and local and regional leaders from around the world come together with partners to bring the voices, experiences and leadership of territories to the global land and drought agenda. #COP17

🟢 #UNCCDCOP17 🌐 Co-moderated together with our key partners @UNHABITAT and @ICLEI, the Mayors’ Forum High-Level Dialogue explored how stronger multilevel governance and partnerships can advance land resilience and reinforce #LRGs as essential partners in the UNCCD process. #Listen2Cities at #COP17Mongolia