It has been a very busy two months on cities matter, with events occurring across the board; and while the recent COP 26 in Glasgow was not specifically targeted at cities, its emphasis on multilevel and cooperative action made it clear that it is in cities that nationally determined emissions-cutting contributions will concretise. 

We have also been busy preparing our next round of policy briefs that will be released in early Spring. To help us steer the activities of the CoP on cities for the following months, we invite you to fill out our survey in the next section. 

We hope you will appreciate this last edition of our newsletter for the year 2021 and we wish you a productive last few weeks of work and a relaxing and revitalising end-of-year break.

As usual, keep in mind that this is a bi-monthly publication, with a new edition foreseen for the end of January 2022. For any feedback on this edition, or contributions to the following one, including highlights of your current work, upcoming publications, or events, please let us know at jrc-kctp@ec.europa.eu.  

The Editorial Team  

Jean-Philippe Aurambout, Patrizia Sulis, and Giulia Testori