From local roots to global impact - Exploring the role of local governments in effective multilevel governance to decarbonize buildings

This event will showcasing learnings and challenges from local governments, discuss climate action roadmaps and how they can enhance multi-level governance and enable local governments to play a central role in the buildings and construction sector decarbonization process
It will also highlight how local governments can make changes to improve the sustainability and resilience of buildings on a national level, and how different levels of governments ensure policy coherence via policy reporting, tracing and monitoring mechanisms. It will aim to demonstrate that despite limited resources, cities have a broad range of levers depending on their available powers to take local action, including procurement, planning and financial incentives.
The event will also map out local government capacities in terms of existing support, and showcase how local and national governments and other stakeholders can work together to address the capacity gaps.