{"id":11460,"date":"2023-07-10T12:41:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T11:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/?p=11460"},"modified":"2023-07-10T12:53:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T11:53:03","slug":"%e3%80%90new%e3%80%91u7-brings-urban-perspective-to-g7-urban-development-ministers-meeting-in-takamatsu-kagawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/international-cooperation\/%e3%80%90new%e3%80%91u7-brings-urban-perspective-to-g7-urban-development-ministers-meeting-in-takamatsu-kagawa\/","title":{"rendered":"\u3010NEW\u3011G7 Urban Development Ministers Meeting in Takamatsu, Kagawa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

U7 press release<\/em> (edited)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Representing the\u00a0Urban7<\/a> (U7),\u00a0Mayor Kiz\u014d Hisamoto\u00a0(Kobe, Japan) joined G7 ministers for urban development in\u00a0Takamatsu, Kagawa\u00a0to address pressing issues facing cities. The meeting, which took place from July 7-9, marked the second time that a mayor has directly participated in a G7 ministerial meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the meeting in Takamatsu, Mayor Hisamoto, who also serves as President of Japan’s Mayors Association of Designated Cities (MADC), presented the perspective of the U7 on issues ranging from the role of local government in protecting peace and democracy to resilience and climate neutrality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U7 lauds the G7 ministers for urban development for their decision to include the Urban7 in their meeting and in the preparations for the summit. The U7 was consulted in the drafting of the\u00a0G7 Sustainable Urban Development Ministers\u2019 Communiqu\u00e9<\/a>, which lays out the priorities and commitments of the ministers. In particular, the group offered input on multi-level governance and the importance of greater partnership and cooperation between different levels of government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In their Communiqu\u00e9, the ministers explicitly acknowledged,\u00a0\u201cthat cities play an important role, individually and as part of an effective network, in providing innovative, integrated and advanced solutions for these challenges that can enable a just and green transition on the journey to net zero patterns of production and consumption.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Furthermore, the ministers recognised the\u00a0Urban7 Mayors Declaration<\/a>, in which mayors laid out their expectations and priorities for the Japanese G7 Presidency. Finally, the ministers highlighted the importance of the engagement of the U7 in the process of planning the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023 U7 Group Chair and MADC President Mayor Kiz\u014d Hisamoto (Kobe, Japan) said:
\u201cI am pleased that the “U7 Mayors Declaration” was strongly recognised by the G7 ministers, emphasising that cities play an important role in addressing global challenges and promoting multi-level governance, which was clearly reflected in the Communiqu\u00e9 and in the Kagawa-Takamatsu Principles.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read<\/strong> the G7 Ministers for Urban Development Communiqu\u00e9<\/a> and Kagawa-Takamatsu Principles<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U7 press release (edited) Representing the\u00a0Urban7 (U7),\u00a0Mayor Kiz\u014d Hisamoto\u00a0(Kobe, Japan) joined G7 ministers for urban development in\u00a0Takamatsu, Kagawa\u00a0to address pressing issues facing cities. The meeting, which took place from July 7-9, marked the second time that a mayor has directly participated in a G7 ministerial meeting. At the meeting in Takamatsu, Mayor Hisamoto, who also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,54],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-11460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-cooperation","category-local-government-in-japan","tag-city-diplomacy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11460"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11467,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions\/11467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}