Partnership Platform on Localizing the SDGs at COP30
Integrating Sport into Sustainable and Climate-Smart Urban Development
Date: 12 November 2025
Time: 16.30 - 17.30 UTC-3
Venue: Cities and Regions Hub - Blue Zone
Building on the Partnership Platform and the UN-Habitat–IOC collaboration, the event will highlight how integrating sport within National SDG Localization Frameworks and local strategies can deliver multiple co-benefits, advancing inclusion, health, youth engagement, and environmental sustainability. Participants will share examples of sport event legacies contributing to sustainable urban development and identify opportunities for cross-sectoral partnerships to scale up these efforts, ensuring that sport contributes meaningfully to both the SDGs and the Paris Agreement.
Accelerating Multilevel Climate Action for Systemic Transformation
Date: 13 November 2025
Time: 11.30 - 12.30 UTC-3
Venue: Cities and Regions Hub - Blue Zone
The event will highlight the crucial role of the Partnership Platform in unlocking local climate action through multilevel governance and policy coherence – contributing to build policies and instruments that are action-oriented, catalytic, and aligned with national climate strategies. Promoting synergies with the Local2030 ‘Road to Belem’ process which is aiming at bringing the localization agenda close to the debates at COP30 and therefore drawing upon the experiences of participating governments, the Event will also highlight how multilevel climate action, driven by coherent policies, empowered local actors, and targeted investment, can accelerate the transition toward sustainable, resilient, and low-carbon territories, turning national climate commitments into tangible local results.
