Education Flourishing African Cities: a program for undergraduate students worldwide 1 Sep 20231 Sep 2023 The Fall 2023 Global Columbia Collaboratory Flourishing African Cities: Urban Development, Food Systems, and Clean Energy is a free, not-for-credit, virtual global program exploring African cities' path toward sustainability and resilience. The…
Executive Education A new partnership to empower South African cities through city diplomacy 12 Jul 20232 Feb 2024 The City Diplomacy Lab and the South African Cities Network (SACN) join forces to advance sustainable urban development in South Africa. Over the past two decades, South Africa has emerged…
Op-eds City-to-city cooperation and the 15-minute city 11 Jul 202318 Nov 2023 By Carlos Moreno Member of the City Diplomacy Lab's Scientific Committee The conception of an urban alternative: the 15-minute city At the beginning of the 2000s, an all-new concept took…
Webinars Cities and Climate Solutions | Food 31 Mar 202311 May 2024 April 19, 2023 | Online event | 12:00 p.m. (New York) | 1:00 p.m. (Rio de Janeiro) | 6:00 p.m. (Paris) | In English In the face of the climate…
Hybrid Events Cities leading the transformation: SDGs in action and the new multilateralism 2 Mar 20232 Mar 2023 A round table of the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development for the UNECE region | 29 March 2023 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. CET | Hybrid format both in…
Webinars Cities and Climate Solutions | Water 26 Feb 202326 Feb 2023 March 22, 2023 | Online event | 10:00 a.m. (Los Angeles) | 1:00 p.m. (New York) | 6:00 p.m. (Paris) | 8:00 p.m. (Amman) | In English In the face…
News UNECE recognizes the City Diplomacy Lab as a Center of Excellence 19 Jan 202317 Aug 2023 19 January 2023 The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and Columbia Global Centers | Paris (CGC|Paris), one of the ten global centers of Columbia University in the City…
Events Celebrating decentralized cooperation projects connecting Europe to the world 29 Dec 202229 Dec 2022 Everywhere in the world, city diplomacy owes its expansion primarily to the determination of a growing number of municipalities to emulate the impact of its most successful applications. This is…
Events Scaling up diasporas’ unique contribution to decentralized cooperation 14 Nov 202220 Nov 2022 Diasporas are increasingly proving their empowering role in decentralized cooperation, i.e., development partnerships implemented by cities and local governments. With their knowledge of their territory of origin and ability to…
Events Matching proximity and diplomacy at the Smart City Expo World Congress 13 Nov 202213 Nov 2022 The City Diplomacy Lab joins forces with ETI Chair - IAE Paris Sorbonne Business School and C40 Cities to support the global spread of local, participatory solutions to urban societies' primary…