Agenda 21 for Culture

UCLG and its Committee on Culture are fully engaged in the pursuit of sustainable cultural development at local, national and global levels.

The Culture Summit aims at ensuring that culture is adequately reflected in the overall policy of the World Organization and that the cultural policies of UCLG members are promoted and enhanced with the shared values of the Agenda 21 for Culture.

Following the adoption of Culture 21: Actions in Bilbao at the

Wednesday 18 March saw the start of the most significant meeting on culture and sustainability ever organized by local governments: the UCLG Culture Summit.

During the last World Council meeting in Haikou, UCLG members highlighted that culture is key for social and economic development, as well as for human-scale cities.

The Awards Ceremony of the first edition of the "International Award UCLG - MEXICO City - Culture21" will take place on 12^th November 2014. The events are hosted by Mexico City (Mexico).

During the process of updating the Agenda 21 for culture, the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Committee on Culture launched an online consultation questionnaire in March 2014.

SAVE THE DATE: UCLG Culture Summit will be hosted by the City of Bilbao, 18-20 March 2015

The Declaration on the inclusion of culture in the Sustainable Development Goals post-2015 has received endorsement f

Bilbao has been chosen to host the First UCLG Culture Summit in 2015 during the meeting of the UCLG Executive Bureau held in Liverpool. Since the founding Congress of Paris, culture has been at th