Six municipal governments, including the cites of Dallas, Denton and San Antonio, are participating in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Cities Challenge during the United Nations High-Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development. Other participating cities include Atlanta, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Maui County, Hawaii, New Haven, Connecticut and Orange County, Florida. The SDG Cities and Counties Challenge provides a experience to guide local governments in integrating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into government processes and programs.

The collaborative, six-month peer knowledge sharing learn-and-do group training is designed to gain SDG expertise and align city goals with the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development delivered by Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI), an international non-governmental organization that promotes sustainable development; the University of Texas at Arlington/RCE North Texas; and the Connected Cities Lab at the University of Melbourne, in partnership with the Brookings Institution and United Nations Association of Australia.

For more information, visit un.org/sustainabledevelopment/cities.