Agenda - 06-05-2018 8-h - Joining the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy

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The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy Fact Sheet • Name: Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy • Total number of cities committed: 7,100+ • Total number of countries represented: 119 • Total population represented: 600 million, or 8% of the global population • Six months after cities were crucial voices in shaping and advocating for a strong Paris Climate Agreement in December 2015, the world’s cities are today ready to announce that they will work together to take bold climate action as part of a new first-of-its-kind, and now the world’s largest, global coalition of cities leading in the fight against climate change. • The new coalition, The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, formally brings together the Compact of Mayors and the Covenant of Mayors, the world’s two primary initiatives of cities to assist cities and local governments in their transition to a low-carbon economy, and demonstrate their global impact. • Cities are significant in the implementation of the Paris Agreement. They represent major opportunities to reduce climate emissions and enhance climate resilience. Cities innovate faster, and are less hampered by politics than many nation states in their efforts to move towards clean energy and low carbon infrastructure. And cities do even better when they collaborate. • The creation of a single, global merged initiative to represent the impact of cities in this effort is a historic and powerful response by the world’s urban leadership to the climate challenge. More and more cities across the globe are heeding the call to act from fellow local leaders, and their response could not be more urgent as nations begin the work of meeting the Paris climate goals. • The joining of these two forces will create the broadest global coalition committed to climate leadership, building on the commitment of 7,100+ cities from six continents and 119 countries representing more than 600 million residents, already participating in the EU Covenant of Mayors and the Compact of Mayors. • The merged initiative will provide a central platform that brings together relevant data on cities' energy and climate actions reported to the current EU Covenant platform and the platforms supporting the Compact of Mayors (CDP Cities and the Carbonn Climate Registry), allowing to compare cities' and regions' achievements to other cities and regions all around the world, and make them publicly available through a new Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy website, to be launched by January 2017. • Aligning efforts will allow for greater collaboration between cities across the world, bridging gaps and building connections, as well as increasing funding to support and empower cities in their actions. • The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy will allow for comparison between cities' and regions' achievements all around the world, as well as global aggregation of the impact of city actions. • This historic merger will harness the convening powers and global resources behind both organisations, as well as global city network partners, namely, C40, ICLEI, UCLG, and regional networks including Eurocities, Energy Cities and Climate Alliance. 6