COP30, which takes place from November 10 to 21, 2025 in Belém do Pará, Brazil, can be an opportunity to leverage the Right to the City and Climate Justice in building a multi-actor, multi-level partnership for climate action, led by communities, in alliance with...
Climate Justice
Justice that links development and human rights to achieve a human-centred approach to addressing climate change, safeguarding the rights of the most vulnerable people and sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its impacts equitably and fairly.Climate Justice
Campaigns
2024 World Day for the Right to the City
On October 31st, we celebrate the World Day for the Right to the City. As UN-Habitat makes a call for us to reflect on the role of youth leading climate and local action for cities, we reaffirm our commitment to building climate justice through the Right to the City....
The GPR2C at the Second session of the UN-Habitat Assembly
The Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) Members and Allies will be in Nairobi to actively participate in the second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly ( 5 to 9 June 2023), to call on UN Member States and UN-Habitat to accelerate the...
News
2025: a summary of our year
GPR2C Summary of 2025: Towards a global mutirão and caring cities! Dear friends, 2025 was marked by the intensification of the work of the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) on two strategic fronts: Climate Justice and Care. With great expectations from...
The GPR2C’s work on the Right to the City and Care
The GPR2C has defined “Care" as one of its strategic priorities for action in the period from 2023 to 2026. For the municipal movement, care is much more than just social policy, it is part of a fundamental political vision to transform the way we govern, plan and...
The GPR2C at COP30: a review
The Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) took to COP30 the vision that there is no Climate Justice without the Right to the City. The first climate conference to be held in Brazil took place from November 10 to 21, 2025, but preparations for our arrival...
Our journey so far: the GPR2C task force ahead of COP30
For some years now, we have been working on the connections between climate justice and the right to the city. Starting with the publication of our thematic paper in 2020 and continuing to work with our members on local, national, regional and global initiatives. This...
Publications
Right to the City Thematic Papers
The Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) has embarked on a collective learning process, with two stages: in 2020 and 2021. This process is being carried out together with all its members and allies for the elaboration of a series of thematic papers to...
Events
The Relevance of the New Urban Agenda in Confronting Climate Change – COP30
The Relevance of the New Urban Agenda in Confronting Climate Change November 15th, 16h30 - 17h30 - Cities and regions hub, Blue Zone COP30 The New Urban Agenda, approved at the last United Nations Conference on Human Settlements – Habitat III, in 2016 in Quito,...
People’s Summit Panel – Right to the City and Climate Justice: how to advance participatory governance towards cities and territories that care for people and the environment
COP 30 - People's Summit Panel "Right to the City and Climate Justice: how to advance participatory governance towards cities and territories that care for people and the environment" Organization: Global Platform for the Right to the City, Instituto Pólis , National...
Advancing community-led approaches and climate justice in the IPCC Climate Change and Cities Report
Advancing community-led approaches and climate justice in the IPCC Climate Change and Cities Report COP30 Official side-event, Tuesday, November 11th 11:30—13:00h BRT, Side Event Room 3 The event will count with interpretation in english, spanish and portuguese...
Youth perspectives on Climate Justice and the Right to the City
As we celebrate the 2024 World Day for the Right to the City, we look at the actions and strategies from youth groups to learn how they have been engaging both for climate and territorial justice, through the perspective of the Right to the City. For such, the GPR2C...














