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As the urgent response to COVID-19 is unfolding and climate impacts continue to affect cities and counties, local institutions will need to build a resilient future responding to both these challenges. Participants learn directly from local and national policymakers and their allies about common obstacles and success strategies for implementing local climate projects and access finance.

Our expert roundtable brings together IKI projects working on vertical integration and local climate action across diverse geographies such as South Africa, Mexico and Indonesia.

How can sub-national and non-state actors harness innovation & technology for local climate action? To answer this question, UN-Habitat in partnership with the Climate Change Comission, are organising a good practice exchange to learn from successful climate change initiatives from cities and provinces in the Philippines.

Stakeholders from county and national government, civil society, and the private sector will gather on November 7 to discuss financing for local climate action and multi-level governance of climate change in Kenya. The event is the first of two workshops marking the conclusion of the V-LED project in Kenya and includes the launch of two key project publications.