There is an increasing glocalization of governance — global standards and regulations adapted to local specifics, as well as local developments triggering global regulations.

• Local governments organised at global level (e.g. the Global Parliament of Mayors and Covenant of Mayors) are overpassing national and international policies to accelerate policy responses, foster resource mobilisation and better engage local stakeholders.
• The role of cities in global governance is challenging a more centralized nation state governance vision (Sturner and Bandel, 2019). 
• Local governments could engage actively in international cooperation and world politics, and act in a more agile way. Cities have been active in a number of policy areas, such as environment, climate change, energy, migrations (Sturner and Bandel, 2019). 
• Cities could rise as powers and spaces for influence. 
• As transnationalisation is accelerating, a global citizenry is emerging.
• The scope and spectrum of authority and governance is broadening beyond the state-centric and policy-making realms.
• The Shared Power Principle characterized by subsidiarity, collaborative and participatory working, distributed leadership and continuous learning could improve governments' effectiveness and legitimacy. 

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