The IUC project participated in a stakeholders’ call of the Global Covenant of Mayors (GCoM) organised by ICLEI Korea, which holds the national GCoM Secretariat. At the event the projet team, presented a progress report on the IUC support to the GCoM implementation in Korea. This can be summarised as:

Current Status (April 2020)

• Successfully completed capacity building workshop, training and expert group meeting on CAP and GHG inventory to the cities under South-Jeolla Province (May, Nov 2019), and implemented networking activities with the cities in Chung Nam Province.
• Establishing contacts with the network of local climate policy research institutes to assist cities (ICEC, SHARI, KRIC, Incheon Institute)
• Face-to-face public gathering with city stakeholders are restricted due to covid-19 till April 5, main IUC C2 activities (with ChungNam and Gwangju Metropolitan) are rescheduled from March to June and August 2020 (TBC).

Next plan

• Preparatory online meetings with Korean pilot cities/provinces through SHARI, KRIC, ICEC, Incheon Institute.
• Possible discussion on the impact of the Korean Green Deal for Cities (May 2020)– cooperation with Korea Low Carbon Programme
• Workshop on GHG inventory and CAP with ChungNam SHARI for June 2020 (TBC). Focus on coal-phasing out – methods & best practices from Europe (EU and cities level). Follow-up to Activity from 2019.
• Aligning the CAP Dangjin and Gwangju to the CRF – including GHG reporting with ICEC and SHARI August
• Supporting GCoM Secretariat by interviewing Gwangju (JeollaNamdo), Dangjin and Hongsung (Chung Nam)
• Supporting IUC PSU through case study on Seoul

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