A blueprint to enhance United Nations collaboration with local and regional governments
Guest blog by Yunus Arikan: ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability The United Nations is celebrating its 75 th anniversary in 2020, under the shadows of a once-in-a-century pandemic, serious challenges to multilateralism, and life-threatening climate and biodiversity emergencies. Due to the global pandemic, these celebrations will be taking place online, but the virtual forum by no means reduces the significance of processes and decisions that will take place in 2020. ICLEI – representing our network of over 1,750 local governments – contributed to the response of the Global Task Force of Local and Regional Governments to the UN75 , with its commitment to accelerate localization of the Decade for Sustainability Action . In order to ensure sustainability of the world in 2045 – the 100 th year of the United Nations – ICLEI is calling for an inclusive new generation of multilateralism that addresses COVID-19 pandemic, responds to climate emergency and adop...