This gathering serves as a pivotal platform for dialogue to identify individual roles in fostering an integrated approach to urban diplomacy in Mashhad.

On World Metropolitan Day (14 October), stakeholders and decision-makers related to energy and sustainability will come together in Gaziantep to discuss the relevant agenda items and reports on the outputs will be prepared. The title of the agenda is determined as “Building Greener and More Resilient Cities”.

Join us on World Metropolitan Day 2024, hosted by the City of Dakar in collaboration with Metropolis and UN-Habitat, to explore the critical role cities and younger generations play in achieving a just transition that leaves no one behind.

Argüden Governance Academy will host a webinar with the participants from the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities (Council of Europe), London School of Economics-Cities and Institut Metropoli (Barcelona) over the topic on Better Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Future: Integrated Planning and Stakeholder Engagements.

The Urban Talks session, organized in collaboration with the Marmara Municipalities Union Sustainability and Climate Change Center, Urban Policy Center and Boğaziçi University, will focus on the role of Istanbul’s energy and water footprints in a just transition, in line with the World Metropolitan Day 2024 theme, “Leading the Just Transition.”

The Mayor's Office of Santiago de Cali, in collaboration with ICESI University, will present various experiences of Metropolitan Areas in Colombia, focusing on cases from the northern, central, and southwestern regions of the country. This event will serve as a prelude to the popular consultation process on November 24th, through which the Southwestern Metropolitan Area of Colombia will be established.

Lanzamiento formal de la Red Federal Metropolitana Argentina. Espacio multidimensional para la promoción, asistencia y trabajo sobre la procesos de institucionalización y gobernanza de las áreas metropolitanas de Argentina.