Miami-Dade County Mayor to attend UN Climate Summit "COP26"

Today, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava departs to Glasgow, Scotland, to participate at the United Nation’s 26th annual Climate Change Conference (COP26).

Mayor Levine Cava will be among the local elected officials at COP26 joining the ICLEI USA Delegation, the first and largest global network of more than 2,500 local and regional governments committed to solving the world’s most complex sustainability challenges.

In Glasgow, Mayor Levine Cava will share Miami-Dade's newly updated Climate Action Strategy with other elected leaders from across the world. The strategy is a demonstration of our community’s commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions 50 percent by 2030 from 2019 levels, with the end goal of net zero by 2050 – fulfilling Miami-Dade’s pledge to be a leading partner in the international Race to Zero.

“I’m proud to be traveling to COP26 armed with this new strategy at COP26 to share best practices with leaders from around the world, to help other communities cut their emissions – and to connect and learn from like-minded innovators,” said Mayor Levine Cava at a press conference Wednesday morning. “Local governments are proving to the world that we play a critical role in meeting emissions goals and driving forward real change at the local level. Especially for a community like Miami-Dade that is on the knife’s edge of climate change, the eyes of the world are truly on us as we work to adapt to and mitigate the looming threats ahead. In Glasgow, we ask the world to stand with us. We have set the wheels in motion here in Miami-Dade, but our fate is interconnected with the rest of the planet, and we cannot go it alone.”

The Mayor will also join the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center (Arsht-Rock) – a global team committed to providing one billion people with resilience solutions by 2030 – in Glasgow and will participate in an event related to the R-Cities (Resilient Cities) initiative. Miami-Dade County collaborated with Arsht-Rock this spring to appoint the world's first-ever Chief Heat Officer in Miami-Dade.