Yeosu City to Host 'Urban Environment Covenant Summit' Next Year... Driving COP28 Hosting Momentum

Next September, Over 700 Participants from 156 Member Cities in 51 Countries and UN Agencies
Building a Leading City Brand for Climate Change Response, Strengthening the Foundation for COP28 Hosting through International Networks

As Yeosu City secured the hosting of the 2021 Urban Environment Agreement Summit, Mayor Kwon Oh-bong of Yeosu City signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Yoon Won-tae, Secretary-General of the UEA Secretariat, on the 8th in the mayor's office to ensure the successful hosting of the Urban Environment Agreement Yeosu Summit, followed by a commemorative photo.

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Yeosu City (Mayor Kwon Oh-bong) has taken a step closer to hosting COP28 by declaring international support for attracting COP28 to the South Coast and South Central Region as it secures the Urban Environmental Accords (UEA) summit next year.

The Urban Environmental Accords (UEA) summit will be held for three days in September next year at the Yeosu Expo Center, with about 700 participants including domestic and international member cities, UN agencies, and citizens.

The event will include the opening and closing ceremonies, main sessions, thematic committee meetings, and executive committee meetings. Yeosu City will announce the UEA Yeosu Declaration and serve as the chair city.

On the 8th, Mayor Kwon Oh-bong signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Yoon Won-tae, Secretary-General of the UEA Secretariat, in the mayor’s office to ensure the successful hosting of the UEA Yeosu summit.

Immediately after signing the agreement, Mayor Kwon introduced Yeosu, the host city of the 2021 summit, to domestic and international member cities through a climate and environment talk concert, sharing Yeosu’s climate change response policies and best practices, and promoting current issues such as attracting COP28.

The talk concert, held in a non-face-to-face format, was live-streamed on YouTube on the day, and the UEA Secretariat plans to add English subtitles to the video and distribute it to overseas member cities for promotion.

Mayor Kwon Oh-bong said, “With the successful hosting of this Urban Environmental Accords summit, Yeosu will stand tall as a leading city in climate change response in the international community, and it is expected to greatly contribute to creating momentum for attracting COP28 to the South Coast and South Central Region by utilizing networks of COP participating countries and international organizations such as UN agencies.”

The Urban Environmental Accords, joined by 156 cities from 51 countries worldwide, holds a biennial urban summit to discuss urban environmental issues, climate change response, and sustainable development.

Yeosu City was finally confirmed as the host city for the Urban Environmental Accords summit next year after review by the UEA Executive Committee in July.

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