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We are pleased to invite you to attend virtually the "2nd Forum of Local Environmental Authorities" that the city of Santiago is presiding over and which is organized together with the Secretariat of the CC35 with the technical support of ECLAC under the title "New Green Agreement in the Capitals after the coronavirus" and which will be held from Santiago, Chile, on 17 August 2020 from 10:00 a.m. This Forum will have the France 24 channel as its exclusive media, whose coverage will be presented in a complete program later in Spanish, English and French.

 

This initiative made its first meeting with great success in Ecuador in habitat III + 2 and had as an answer the "Declaration of Quito". 2020 aims to raise the influence of the highest environmental authorities of the 35 capital cities of the countries that make up the entire hemisphere, through local diplomacy and adding as a special guests to Los Angeles (USA), San Juan (Puerto Rico), Glasgow (Scotland), Recife (Brazil) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

 

COVID-19 has an overwhelming impact on the region's local economies but has also shown how this economic model is responsible for both the increase in emissions that affect the health of people and their ecosystems, and the pressure on the basic services that are provided by limited natural resources (water, energy, etc.).

 

The training and technical assistance to our role as authorities will be supported in this meeting by several of the most recognized institutions of the planet in terms of environmental agenda as WWF, The Energy Coalition, ICLEI, R20, UCLA, IUCN and ICOMOS where programs and initiatives of great relevance will be announced to add our cities in order to be implemented in the current negotiations, if they are of interest for each city.

 

The meeting aims to discuss and send urgent ideas to explore proven, innovative and scalable solutions from us as the highest environmental authorities, for a post-pandemic green reconstruction from the capital cities of the Americas, where the need to strengthen our roles within the structures we occupy is evident.

 

A local climate legislative framework and a new architecture for city financing will be two backbones of the discussion.

 

Time is running out and we have a decade left to meet the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 agenda and only months to do so before the Paris Agreement and face the most profound global challenges of our generation, to protect the more than 50 million citizens who have placed their trust in our governance.

 

That is why this meeting is part of the recently created Santiago-Glasgow route that contains 6 fundamental axes to accelerate the commitment to a carbon neutral 2050 of the sub-national governments towards the COP26 that will take place in Scotland and has the support of strategic allies of the CC35 such as ICLEI, C40, UCLG and other members of the LGMA (LocalGovernments and Municipalities Authorities).

 

We will have as an added on the website value a brief presentation of innovative private sector solutions that can accelerate the green infrastructure we need to meet the 1.5OC global temperature rise targets or the provision of primary services.

 

As part of the institutional planning we announce that Guatemala City will physically hold the presidency of 2021 if the security conditions are in place for the "3rd Forum of Local Environmental Authorities".

 

The Declaration and agreed action plan that emerges from the capitals we represent will be sent to the COP25 and COP26 High-Level Champions, Gonzalo Muñoz and Nigel Topping and the commitments monitored between the 2020 and 2021 Forums presided over by the municipal governments of Santiago and Guatemala.

 

The text of the Closing Statement  will be circulated to you between July 1 and August 15, 2020 along with the official invitations.

 

We hope that you will be available to join all the environmental chiefs of the capitals and jointly send a strong message from our cities.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

They lead the Santiago-Glasgow route

Allied Cities

Strategic partners

Consultations with the CC35 Secretariat at secretariado@cc35.city