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Climate Roadmap

Cancún, Mexico, 29 November-10 December 2010

The Local Government Climate Roadmap is an advocacy journey that began in 2007, in Bali, mirroring the UN Climate Roadmap launch on the global level, which accompanied the UN negotiation process towards COP15, in Copenhagen. Unfortunately, the outcome of COP15 did not result in the desired strong, global and comprehensive post-2012 climate agreement, therefore ICLEI and UCLG, leading local government organizations, agreed on continuing the process of advocacy and awareness raising through COP16 (Cancún, Mexico, 29 November-10 December 2010) and COP17 (Durban, South Africa, 28 November-9 December 2011), where hopefully an international agreement on climate will be adopted.   

From the beginning, the aim of the Roadmap process was to ensure that national negotiators would recognize the important role and actions of local and subnational governments in the negotiating documents leading to a new climate agreement. To a large extent this has been achieved in the current draft negotiating text on Long-term Cooperative Action (LCA). It is now needed to maintain these references up to the final adoption of the agreement.  This will maximize the contribution of all actors and in particular governmental stakeholders, as the local governments, in the climate protection and adaptation plans and actions.

To ensure the continuous and strong presence of LGs contribution to international negotiations during this edition of the Conference of Parties (COP16), the Climate Roadmap action, represented by a selected and very committed delegation, will focus its advocacy activities on targeted bilateral meetings with national delegations to influence the negotiations towards the recognition and the establishment of a clear and defined key role for local governments against climate change.

In preparations towards COP16, local governments intend to demonstrate their advanced commitment to the international community gathering at the World Mayors Climate Summit 2010, in Mexico City, on 21 November 2010. During this Summit, local governments will be offered the chance to engage in the Global Cities Climate Covenant (the "Mexico City Pact"). By signing this Pact, cities will not only agree to voluntary commitments to promote strategies and actions on mitigation and adaptation, but they will also consent to enter their pledge and to track the progress reached through a new, transparent scientific tool: the carbonn Cities Climate Registry.

The results of this event will be brought to the COP16 negotiations in Cancún, Mexico, together with all the advanced initiatives designed by local governments, to state once again the significance of local government actions and the need of involving them on the process of international negotiations on climate change.

For further information, please contact climate-roadmap@iclei.org