World Cities Day

  World Cities Day  aims to  raise international awareness of urbanization trends, challenges, and visions for sustainable urban development ,  promote international cooperation , and  contribute to global efforts to build equitable, prosperous, sustainable, and inclusive cities  that provide their communities with better living environments and quality of life.

  The vision of the GPM is to contribute to a world in which mayors, their cities and networks are equal partners in building global governance for an inclusive and sustainable world. Their  mission consist to facilitate debates between mayors, national governance and international organisations, drive systematic action to take on global and national challenges and opportunities to achieve political change on a global scale. Mayors take leadership and ownership of the global challenges that they face on a local level.  The GPM is promoting collective action, connectivity and solidarity among mayors at a time where the common global voice of mayors is especially needed as drivers of change.  More About the Global Parliament of Mayors

Eurocities is an association that provides a political platform for major European cities. We network the local governments of more than 200 major European cities in 38 countries, representing 130 million people.  Go to page

  C40 is a network of nearly 100 cities working to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis . Mayors of C40 cities are committed to using a science-based and collaborative approach to help the world limit global heating to 1.5°C and build healthy, equitable and resilient communities . 

Energy Cities is an association that provides a political platform for major European cities. We network the local governments of 145 of Europe’s largest cities and more than 45 partner cities that between them govern some 130 million citizens in 39 countries. Energy Cities is a learning community for cities engaged in future proofing their economies , built around a “local and sustainable first” approach. Our strength lies in our members’ strong commitment to reach climate neutrality in their territories by 2050 and to align their local strategic development with the Paris Agreement. Building a learning community is a tool that helps each of our members feel more confident in their own transition journey, because other cities have done it before, or because cities can test new solutions together. We foster an atmosphere of mutual trust in the dialogue between citizens, local leaders and EU and national institutions in order to accelerate the transformation towards a climate-neutral ...

  Cities Alliance is a global partnership fighting urban poverty and promoting the role of cities . To manage its activities, the Cities Alliance operates a multi-donor fund of which the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is host and Trustee.

World Cities Day brings Urban October to an end on October 31st each year and was first celebrated in 2014. As with World Habitat Day, a global observance is held in a different city each year and the day focuses on a specific theme.