Culture

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the global agenda on sustainable development. It includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 specific targets.

Since the founding Congress of Paris, culture has been at the heart of UCLG’s policy agenda.

The world’s largest gathering of cities for culture closed today in Jeju, Republic of Korea, with the commitment to strengthen international collaboration to make culture a core area of approaches to sustainable development in cities.

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

Local leaders launch “Culture 21: Actions” and call for international community to follow suit and fully integrate culture into Post-2015 Agenda

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