Esteban Romero Frías, mantuvo una reunión de trabajo con Iñigo Arbiol Oñate, Deputy Head of Secretariat de la Coalición Local2030 de Naciones Unidas, en la sede del Secretariado de la Coalición, ubicada en el Archivo Histórico de Euskadi (Bilbao).

Climate change is a social problem. 2030hub announces the launch of Climate Impact Week this June (2nd to 8th) to include an innovative series of interconnecting events exploring climate and nature…

Cities rarely lack good plans – they lack the means to fund them. Public money remains trapped in sectoral silos, forcing integrated agendas through fragmented budgets. Until funding is organized around shared outcomes rather than isolated departments, “joined-up policy” will remain a slogan, writes Marco Zupi, Scientific Coordinator of the UN Local2030 Coalition Network. — As I followed the “Cities and Communities” track in Jakarta at the Global Sustainable Development Congress 2026 this past June, one simple thought kept coming back to me. A large city is where the pressures of our century become most visible: traffic that barely moves, glass towers standing beside settlements without secure water, drought one week and flooding the next. It is also where people keep daily life running against the odds. If our promises about sustainability mean anything, this is where they either take shape or fall apart. The reason is a matter of arithmetic. Most economic activity, most emissions and most concentrated hardship are now urban, and cities are where the population will keep growing. With the deadline of the United Nation Agenda for Sustainable Development, a global action plan adopted by all 193 member states in 2015, approaching, the missing ingredient is...

Statement delivered by Haoliang Xu at the High-Level Political Forum, Special Event of the Local2030 Coalition, New York City, USA