VeniceCitySolutions – 2022 Events

Venice City Solutions 2030 5th edition

Online 28 and 29 November 2022

This fifth edition develops the idea that we need to “Flip the Script” to achieve the SDGs. We need more inclusive, peaceful and sustainable cities and territories, and we need them now. After the 2 years pandemic and subsequent global turmoil, certain traditional government models are no longer working, and we need new ones. That is why the organizers are asking local and regional governments to “Flip The Script”: to bring communities together and transform policy and local action to make our cities more inclusive, green, healthy and fair. The SDG are also helping cities to innovate and transform, and we know that this is never an easy process. Venice wants to share specific solutions that other cities and their partners are already experimenting. Each year, we gather in Venice to share how cities are getting inspired by the SDGs, turning around old ways of doing things, and engaging citizens into renewed local action.

This year, we want to find responses to some of the following questions:

• What is your city doing to “flip the script”?
• How is SDGs inspiring your local action?
• How are cities bringing along their communities and partners?
• Is Agenda 2030 helping cities to innovate? How and where?

Side Event Venice City Solutions 2030

Online – 6 July 2022, h. 13.30 – 15.00 CET

Venice City Solutions 2030 is a yearly process that brings together the UN, local and regional governments and their partners to discuss progresses on SDG implementation at the local level, and specifically the role of local and regional governments in transforming the 2030 Agenda into reality for all.
This side event is intended to present the outcomes and recommendations of the 4th edition of Venice City Solutions 2030 held in December 2021, under the title “SDG Solutions to rethink the city” as well as to offer an update about the organizers join efforts to support local and regional governments to achieve Agenda 2030 for all.
Organized by UN-Habitat in collaboration with United Cities and Local Governments, AICCRE, UNDP and the UN SDG Action Campaign.

Voluntary Local Reviews And Voluntary Subnational Reviews: Key Policy Tools For The Sdgs

Online – 7 July 2022, h. 14.00 – 16.30 CET

The objective of the fifth edition of the Local and Regional Governments Forum is to showcase the relationship between the SDGs in review and the innovative actions taken by local and regional governments for their implementation, highlight the progress made and recommendations from reporting processes such as the VLRs and VSRs, as well as to foster multilevel governance and partnerships among different spheres of government, the international community and other stakeholders towards accelerated implementation of the SDGs.

Building Back Better by deepening the integration of the SDGs in national and local planning processes: effective multilevel governance and the role of VLRs in supporting local authorities

Online – 12 July 2022

The objective of the fifth edition of the Local and Regional Governments Forum is to showcase the relationship between the SDGs in review and the innovative actions taken by local and regional governments for their implementation, highlight the progress made and recommendations from reporting processes such as the VLRs and VSRs, as well as to foster multilevel governance and partnerships among different spheres of government, the international community and other stakeholders towards accelerated implementation of the SDGs.