Jalisco, Valencia and the Basque Country receive the II Regional Best Practices Award
The Awards Ceremony for the II Regional Best Practices Award, launched by ORU Fogar with the collaboration of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) took place just before the closing of the World Forum of Regions.
Third Regional Summit on Food Security to be held in Azuay
ORU Fogar will hold its third summit on food security. After the summits of Dakar, Senegal, in 2010 and Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia, in 2012, the host city will be Cuenca, in Ecuador.
High trainining technical missions after the assembly of the Basque Country
Following the ORU Fogar assembly held in the Basque Country on 27 and 28 November, the Autonomous Island of Ndzuwani (Comoros Islands), the Province of Córdoba (Argentina) and the secretariat of Zicosur took the opportunity to...
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R20: Streamlining sub-national infrastructure investments in the green economy
Subnational authorities have gained, this last decade, high recognition to lead climate change actions, and with the global consensus on the need to confine global temperature rises “well below 2°C” reflected in the Paris Agreement and the adoption of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, the political support for low carbon and climate resilient infrastructure projects has never been stronger. In addition, the availability and rapidly declining costs of clean technologies - e.g. solar energy costs have decreased at a rate of 10% per year over the past 30 yearst...