Mobilising and scaling up local climate action

Event Type
Roundtable

Location / Date
São Paulo, 29.10.2025

Organizer

IDOS (Germany), Southern Voice (Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean), and IPEA (Brazil) in cooperation with the Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC)

The international roundtable gathered experts from Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America to discuss how local climate action can be scaled up and how national and international actors can support this process.

Local actors play a decisive role in advancing climate action. Cities, municipalities, districts and other sub-national levels of governance, community organizations, and local enterprises are often at the forefront of both experiencing the impacts of climate change and implementing practical solutions. Their proximity to affected communities enables them to design and deliver measures that are context-specific, equitable, and scalable. At the same time, local partners face significant challenges — from limited financial and technical capacity to navigating complex governance and power structures, balancing competing priorities, and reaching the most vulnerable. Additionally, coordination between stakeholders and priorities at the sub-national and national levels can also prove difficult. The roundtable aims to identify mechanisms, tools and actions needed to scale up successful local initiatives, and to link local priorities with national and global climate objectives, fostering coordination and cooperation. 

The outcomes of the roundtable will shape the program of the Hamburg Sustainability Conference 2026.

Participants: confidential round table with high-ranking participants from governments, research, civil society and private sector. The round table was facilitated by Dr. Axel Berger (IDOS) and Henry Alt-Haaker (HSC gGmbH).

 

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