Cross-city learning, implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. Opportunities to learn, re-think and to ‘think outside the box’ In conjunction with Mistra Urban Futures’ conference in Cape Town the week of November, the ‘Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) and the New Urban Agenda: Comparative Urban Perspectives’ project (SDGS project) held a set of cross-city learning activities.

For the first time ever, cities were invited to have a voice in the G20 process leading up to the summit in Buenos Aires 30 November to 1 December 2018. Mistra Urban Futures took part in the events in the Argentinian capital, and reinforced the Centre’s SDG project in the city.

High-level political commitment and support for the SDGs is a key feature in countries that are particularly progressive in delivering on them, write Nick Taylor Buck and Kristina Diprose from Mistra Urban Futures and the University of Sheffield’s Urban Institute.