Stronger national climate plans through multilevel action
The Bonn Dialogues are an in-person event held alongside the SB62 Climate Talks in Bonn, Germany. Invited local, subnational, and national governments, together with businesses, academia, and civil society, will discuss how to leverage successful, multilevel action.
To join us on 18 June at our in-person event please register here:
Held in parallel with the upcoming UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies (SB62) sessions in Bonn, Germany, we’re excited to present the fully packed agenda of the Daring Cities 2025 Bonn Dialogues, taking place from 16 to 18 June.
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Morning
LGMA SB62 Opening Plenary Intervention
14:00 – 15:30
Annual Review of Local and Subnational Action on Rio Conventions (closed event)
16:00 – 18:00
LGMA SB62 Briefing (closed event)
19:00
UNFCCC SB62 Reception (external event)
19:30
CHAMP Dinner (by invitation only)
10:00 – 11:30
2nd CHAMP UNFCCC Focal Point Dialogue (closed event)
13:00 – 15:00
UNFCCC High-Level Champions Dialogue (closed event)
15:00 – 16:30
Urban COP30 and Beyond: Multilevel Action and Sustainable Urbanization to Deliver on the Paris Agreement (closed event)
19:30 – 21:30
Daring Cities 2025 Reception (closed)
09:30 – 13:15
Multilevel Action Plenary: From Town Hall COPs to NDCs3.0
The first half of the event will consist of high-level panel discussions and country deep dives, with local and regional leaders showcasing the work of their communities on the frontline.
14:00 – 16:30
Roundtables
In the second half of the day participants will have the opportunity to interact in roundtable discussions, engaging on topics such as the IPCC Special Report on Cities and Climate Change, science-based targets, nature-based solutions, and energy efficiency.
“Daring Cities continues bringing together local and regional leaders with national policy makers to shape stronger climate plans ahead of COP30.”
Katja Dörner
Lord Mayor, Federal City of Bonn, Germany
Chair of ICLEI’s Climate Action Governance Portfolio
This panel will introduce Daring Cities with special emphasis on the 2025 theme:
“Stronger national climate plans through multilevel action”
The panel will involve the following speakers:
This panel will address the challenges to advancing multilevel action presented by increasingly nationalistic approaches to domestic policy in several influential countries.
The panel will involve the following speakers:
This year the UN-habitat 2024 report “Urban Content of NDCs: Local climate action explored through in-depth country analyses” will be discussed for the countries of Canada, Kenya, South Africa and Town Hall COPs.
This panel groups together diverse representatives from business to finance to research into how to build better partnerships for climate emergency policy implementation.
The panel will involve the following speakers:
This panel closes the morning’s high level dialogues and looks forward to the action needed over the coming weeks and months in the lead up to COP30.
The panel will involve the following speakers:
Moderator: Rodrigo Corradi, Deputy Director, ICLEI South America
The roundtables are structured around two key mobilizing themes:
Table 1 will engage in feeding local grey literature into the IPCC Special Report.
Table 2 will engage in data-driven decision making.
Table 3 will engage in accelerating energy efficiency.
Table 4 will discuss financing NBS for climate resilience adaptation.
Roundtable 1 will involve the following speakers:
Roundtable 2 will involve the following speakers:
Roundtable 3 will involve the following speakers:
Roundtable 4 will involve the following speakers:
Report from Roundtables and closing arguments from Yunus ARIKAN and further reflections from Axel GRAEL
Moderated by Alyssa Chenault
