The CBCA Programme
The City-Business Climate Alliance (CBCA) programme supports cities to convene businesses, set joint commitments, co-create, and implement projects that help cities deliver their Climate Action Plans.
the CBCA FORUM
The CBCA Forum is a network for leading cities, or leaders of local business networks, to exchange ideas on how cities can use their formal and informal powers to influence, regulate and collaborate with the private sector to achieve ambitious climate actions.
We achieve this by:
Facilitating peer-to-peer learning through city ‘buddying’, webinars, workshops and quarterly members’ meetings
Offering training to city economic development teams on emerging climate topics
Creating dialogues between leading cities and businesses so that both parties can learn and discuss how city-business collaboration can be established or improved
Producing research, guides, interviews and case studies of successful city-business collaborations
Advising and supporting cities to develop local city-business climate alliances which reduce city-level emissions, set joint commitments and deliver co-created projects
Collectively communicating, advocating and promoting city-business collaboration as a critical tool to address climate change
The network has over 30 city members worldwide and hosts regular meetings, webinars and workshops.
Local City-business Partnerships
At the local level, the initiative supports cities to build local platforms for city-business collaboration.
Given the many different urban- and business-related contexts in which cities and the private sector operate, there is no single, ‘one size fits all’ model to build a local city-business partnership. However, all the local partnerships joining or established through the CBCA will be expected to act as non-commercial spaces based on transparency and data, and to build a pipeline of projects creating resilient, healthy and prosperous places to live and work.