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This document summarises insights from a global database of city climate change mitigation and adaptation actions drawn from a random sample of cities committed to the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) by region. Actions in the database were extracted from publicly available climate action strategy documents published in English between 2016 and mid-2020. The database assesses the content and comprehensiveness of proposed city climate actions aggregated by region, including how research and innovation is integrated in the strategies and common focus areas. The data is not intended to be statistically representative of city climate actions in the respective regions. The research was conducted by the Connected Cities Lab at the University of Melbourne for GCoM, in partnership with Ironbark Sustainability.

This report provides insights into how cities are responding to local climate change mitigation and adaptation challenges across regions, globally, and how they align with the priorities of the Mission Innovation program - an intergovernmental platform that brings together governments, businesses, investors and academia to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement by enabling widely affordable clean energy. This analysis draws on an existing database of city climate actions from a sample of 98 climate change mitigation and adaptation plans published since 2016 in English, originally compiled for the Global Covenant of Mayors (Hadfield et al., 2021). The report also explores how national governments are currently engaging cities in climate action and where gaps exist to better coordinate between them.

This document summarises insights from a global database of city climate change mitigation and adaptation actions drawn from a random sample of cities committed to the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) by region. Actions in the database were extracted from publicly available climate action strategy documents published in English between 2016 and mid-2020. The database assesses the content and comprehensiveness of proposed city climate actions aggregated by region, including how research and innovation is integrated in the strategies and common focus areas. The data is not intended to be statistically representative of city climate actions in the respective regions. The research was conducted by the Connected Cities Lab at the University of Melbourne for GCoM, in partnership with Ironbark Sustainability.

This report provides insights into how cities are responding to local climate change mitigation and adaptation challenges across regions, globally, and how they align with the priorities of the Mission Innovation program - an intergovernmental platform that brings together governments, businesses, investors and academia to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement by enabling widely affordable clean energy. This analysis draws on an existing database of city climate actions from a sample of 98 climate change mitigation and adaptation plans published since 2016 in English, originally compiled for the Global Covenant of Mayors (Hadfield et al., 2021). The report also explores how national governments are currently engaging cities in climate action and where gaps exist to better coordinate between them.

The Findings from Innovate4Cities 2021 and Update to the Global Research and Action Agenda details the research, policy, and public discussions key to advancing climate research and action in cities. This report documents key outcomes of the Innovate4Cities 2021 Conference (October 2021) and highlights current objectives and motivations, research gaps and priorities. Furthermore, this document presents a regional analysis of research and innovation needs falling under the original GRAA topical research areas and cross cutting issues (Edmonton 2018) and expanding to issues which emerged between the 2018 and 2021 conferences. This report has been developed by Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) and UN-Habitat based on the outcomes of 2021 Innovate4Cities Conference co-hosted by UN-Habitat, GCoM and co-sponsored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It is intended to inform research, policy and public discussions on the global research and action agenda for cities and climate change science. The authors have sought to ensure the accuracy of the material in this document, but they will not be liable for any ramifications incurred through the use of this report.