Keeping the focus on the transformation process that is needed to achieve the resilience and sustainability of the planet, UCLG will work to ensure that the Ecological transition agenda will become a transversal agenda to all the other agendas, to advocate for a Green Recovery, with equal opportunities for all. This includes our commitments to gender equality climate decision-making, with 50:50 leadership, and sharing governance among spheres of government. As part of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Major Group and Stakeholders together with ICLEI, UCLG is ensuring that a Cities and Regions Summit is confirmed within the next United Nations Environment Assembly taking place in February 2022. UCLG is also ensuring a monitoring of the Member-States discussions towards Stockholm+50, scheduled 2 and 3 June 2022 and celebrating the 50 years of the UN Conference on Human Environment.
Transforming our food systems to put people at the center The pandemic has demonstrated the need for strengthening the linkages between national and local governments and the importance of promoting policy frameworks which recognize the interdependence of the various components of food systems and the crucial role of different levels of government. A food systems approach is becoming increasingly relevant for local and regional governments around the world because it connects many different pressing social issues: poverty and inequality including access to food and to healthy diets, public health, new modalities of urban planning, cultural expressions, climate and ecology. The effects of the pandemic also call for refocusing on the right to sufficient, adequate, nutritious and sustainable food. Food has always been high on the agenda of territorial cohesion and intermediary cities, and it is now reaching the broader membership. WE CARE FOR THE PLANET
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