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Citiverse and AI : it’s all about residents and human perspective

This dynamic session on “Citiverse Rising: Virtual Worlds and AI Agents for Urban Transformation”, within the Smart Cities World Expo Congress 2025 brought together outstanding partners and visionaries. They discussed one of the most pressing challenges of our time: how cities can navigate an era of too many projects, fierce competition for innovation, and rising costs while keeping people at the heart of every technological advance.

  • November 4, 2025
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Local and regional governments at the GFHS2025

The 20th Global Forum on Human Settlements (GFHS 2025) gathered global leaders, national policymakers, local and regional governments, mayors, and sustainability experts at the WMO in Geneva. The Global Cities Hub spoke at the High-Level Dialogue and moderated two interesting panels.

  • November 4, 2025
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Discussing Agentic AI for Cities on World Cities Day

The special webinar on “Empowering lives through people-centred smart cities” put in the focus the people-centered approach shared by several UN agencies. It covered a range of issues from leveraging technology in an adequate way to developing a digital wellbeing framework concept for urban life and to contributing to citizens’ quality of life.

  • October 31, 2025
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Mayors Advocate for a Stronger Forum within the UN System

The 5th UN Forum of Mayors (FoM), held on 6–7 October 2025 in Geneva, brought together representatives from 80 cities from all regions. Centred on the theme “Cities shaping the future,” the Forum aligned with the 2025 UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and tackled key global issues such as health and well-being (SDG 3), gender equality (SDG 5), decent work (SDG 8), climate finance, and housing. Participants unanimously called for reinforcing and expanding the FoM within the UN system, recognizing it as a vital platform that bridges local action and global policy-making.

  • October 9, 2025
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Mayors and business leaders shape the cities of tomorrow

The Global Cities Hub and the World Economic Forum co-organized a high-level event on 8 October 2025. The Urban Futures Dialogue, held under the theme “Driving Public-Private Collaboration for Future-Ready Cities,” brought together mayors, business leaders, international stakeholders, and civil society to explore cooperation between cities and the private sector.

  • October 8, 2025
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Cities in the Lead: Action-Oriented Plans for VLRs

The Global Cities Hub, together with partners and with the support of the Swiss Confederation, held for the 3rd consecutive year a side event dedicated to Voluntary Local Reviews. Over ten cities from across the world gathered for the event. The session highlighted the growing role of local and regional governments (LRGs) in advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through transparent, data-driven, and participatory review processes.

  • October 7, 2025
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Connecting All Levels to Strengthen Decentralized Development Cooperation

The GCH took part in an OECD–German workshop in Berlin on “The impact of decentralized development cooperation (DDC) on local governance and SDG outcomes.” The meeting aimed to better understand how cities and regions engage in decentralized development cooperation, what benefits it brings, the obstacles they face, and how to assess its impact. Participants included cities and regions, city networks, national governments, and international organizations.

  • September 23, 2025
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UN@80: Rethinking Multilateralism with LRGs

The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly starts on Thursday, 18 September. A record number of heads of states and governments are expected to speak on this Anniversary. The Secretary-General has presented a report providing recommendations to enhance engagement with local and regional governments in advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular the localization of the SDGs. The dialogue with States “identified existing mechanisms that were concrete, practical and cost-effective for enhancing the participation of local and regional governments in United Nations processes.”

  • September 18, 2025
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