During UCLG Executive Bureau meetings it was focused mainly on the issues of climate change. 

The participants of this online event, among whom have been mayors and ministers, have tried to strike a balance between central and local governments’ activities to combat climate change.

President of UCLG Mohamed Boudra, Executive Director of UN-Habitat Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Minister for the Environment, Land and Sea Protection of Italy Sergio Costa, Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya Bakar, Mayor of Durban (South Africa) Mxolisi Kaunda, Mayor of Soria (Spain) Carlos Martines Minguez and others have shared their vision of the issue of ecological recovery in the context of the COVID-19 crisis.

In his statement, Mayor of Kazan, President of UCLG-Eurasia Ilsur Metshin has referred to the year of 2015 when the Paris Agreement on Climate Change supported by many national and local governments was signed. “Today, I am more than ever convinced that the Paris Agreement can and should be a tool capable to consolidate efforts to combat the causes of climate change and stop the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. We share with the entire world community the goals and responsibility for climate protection,” Ilsur Metshin said.

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