GPR2C News: July 2024

Quarterly Newsletter 2 / July  2024

📢The GPR2C at the High-Level Political Forum

In the framework of the 2024 High Level Political Forum, the GPR2C, members and partners will be developing a series of online activities to highlight the connections between the Right to the city and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.

Take a look at our agenda and join us !

🗓️ Tuesday, July 9th, 8:30 EDT (Check your local time here)

The Right to Food, Food Sovereignty, and the Right to the City: Advancing Co-Constructed Policies for Environmental Justice

This event brings together diverse perspectives that address locally embedded human rights strategies for sustainable food systems, contributing to the review of SDG 2 (zero hunger) and 13 (climate action) at the 2024 High Level Political Forum. Through showcasing policies and initiatives co-created by communities and governments, the event will spotlight the potential of collaborative efforts in the face of urban challenges like land commodification, gentrification, and corporate influence.

The event is co-organized by FIAN, the Global Platform for the Right to the City, Habitat International Coalition and its LAC Office, Observatory DESCA and United Cities and Local Governments.

🗓️Wednesday, July 10th, 8h EDT (Check your local time here)

Using the Right to the City to accelerate prevention of impacts on climate change in urban peripheries

The side event is based on the premise that climate change adverse effects are unevenly distributed among populations living in urban peripheries and precarious settlements, making it imperative to address it as a matter of social justice. It will shed light on the importance of grounding climate action through a Right to the City perspective, by providing both conceptual and concrete tools and pathways to advance climate and socio-territorial justice to support National and Local Governments, as well as non-governmental organizations and social movements in urban peripheries.

Co-organized by CDES Human Rights, the Global Platform for the Right to the City and the Brazilian Cities Ministry under the framework of the 2024 High-Level Political Forum.

☀️GPR2C integrates C20 debates

The GPR2C support team has been participating since the beginning of this year in two thematic working groups of C20, notably on Sustainable and Resilient Communities and Disaster Risk Reduction and on Gender issues. The GPR2C engagement on these groups focused on mobilizing the right to the city perspective on the policy recommendations by bringing the territorial and local dimensions and the centrality of rights and participatory-based approaches.

🗓️The impact of civil society on global climate governance: understanding the COPs

This informative session from the GPR2C will provide information on the organization of global climate governance, with a focus on the Conferences of the Parties (COPs), in view of the COP30 to be held in Brazil in 2025, and the debates on the possibilities for civil society to influence the climate negotiations.

What will actually be at stake at this conference? What are the real possibilities for civil society to influence the COP negotiations? How can civil society organizations prepare to take part in this mega-event? These and other questions will be answered during this information session.

📘GPR2C contributions to the UN Call for inputs

Access to information on climate change and human rights To read and download the complete contributions to the call on access to information on climate change and human rights, click here.	Care as a Human Right To read and download the complete contributions to the call on care as a human right, click here.

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