The Head of Government of Buenos Aires, Horace Rodriguez Larretaannounced that heat the C40 World Mayors Summit will take place in City of Buenos Aires. It will take place from October 19 to 21 and will bring together of more than 50 mayors from around the world.

At the headquarters of Uspallata, they celebrated that the C40 Steering Committee chose the city as the future venue for this event. “Governments have a responsibility to show that the green path is possiblethat the effort to take care of our environment jeopardizes the general well-being of people”, emphasized Rodríguez Larreta.

In October, we will welcome more than 40 mayors from around the world to the city during the Global Mayors Summit @c40cities. United in action, we will fight against climate change and promote the overall well-being of city dwellers https://t.co/1UfN3CtdQ8 #C40Summit pic.twitter.com/ndOGyKcGPY

— Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (@horaciorlarreta) June 30, 2022

Furthermore, he pointed out that appealing to innovation we can find solutionsto environmental issues. “The It’s time to act and there’s no better way to do that than working together,” he said.

The C40 Global Mayors Summit It is a forum which is organized every three years. From the organization, they pointed out that it was “the most important meeting on climate change in the world at the city level”.

“Now is the time to act and there is no better way to do it than by working together”

The top also includes a Federal Urban Forum in which more than 100 Argentine cities that will present a joint declaration with concrete commitments to reduce carbon emissions.

For its part, Fernando Strafacesecretary general and secretary for international relations of the city, pointed out that “so many mayors of the most important cities in the world have confirmed their participation so far in advance it reflects the priority that the fight against climate change has at the local level”.

“That of Buenos Aires is on the way to becoming a historic summit for the interest that mayors have in creating specific international funding mechanisms for mitigation projects and fight against climate change”promised the official.

Which mayors will participate

With confirmation of the date and place, the arrival in Buenos Aires of mayors of European citiess: Sadiq Khan (London), Anne Hidalgo (Paris), José Luis Martínez-Almeida (Madrid), Ada Colau (Barcelona), Femke Halsema (Amsterdam), Ahmed Aboutaleb (Rotterdam), Giuseppe Sala (Milan), ROberto Gualtieri (Rome), Sophie Hæstorp Andersen (Copenhagen), Raymond Johansen (Oslo) and Rafal Trzaskowski (Warsaw).

To these are added the mayors confirmed from USA and Canada include Eric Adams (New York), Steve Adler (Austin), Kate Gallego (Phoenix), LaToya Cantrell (New Orleans), Francis X. Suarez (Miami), Valerie Plante (Montreal) and Kennedy Stewart (Vancouver, virtual).

Mayors from over 25 countries will gather in Buenos Aires later this year for the C40 Global Mayors Summit to discuss urgent action to address the climate crisis and secure a more sustainable and equitable future.

Learn more: https://t.co/p6xI5Pzcg0 #C40Summit

— C40Cities (@c40cities) June 30, 2022

Likewise, of Latin America already confirmed Claudia Lopez Hernandez (Bogota), Daniel Quintero Street (Medellin), Claudio Orrego (Santiago, Chile), Michel Romero Sotelo (Lime), Paul Lemon (Guadalajara), Raphael Greca (Curitiba) and Santiago Guarderas (Quito).

During this time, the African mayors who will be present will be Mpho Phalatese (Johannesburg), Elizabeth Sackey (Accra), Mxolisi Kaunda (Durban), Barthelemy Toye Dias (Dakar), Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr (Freetown) and randall williams (Tshwane).

For its partasian mayors confirmed for the moment are Atiqul Islam (North Dhaka), Sheikh Faizle Noor Taposh (South Dhaka), Arvind Kejriwal (Delhi), Afzal Zaidi (Karachi), firhad hakim (Kolkata), Aaditya Thackeray (Mumbai)Joy Belmonte (Quezon City) and Weizhong Qin (Shenzhen, virtual). Finally, from Oceania, the Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, has already confirmed her virtual participation.

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