This paper encourages national governments to consider what they can do to support their sub-national governments. It highlights some of the key opportunities, barriers, and solutions, and encourages national governments to consider how, through implementing more integrated approaches, they could better engage and support their cities and subnational government counterparts to unlock and accelerate mitigation actions, and strengthen both national and international commitments. Although this paper is focusing on mitigation action, many of these opportunities, barriers and solutions are common for both climate change resilience and mitigation.
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