Drawing on insights from the literature on urban climate governance to scrutinise the interactions and roles taken in and by city networks, this paper reviews how their functions in local climate governance have been conceptualised and analyse how these are evolving.We conceptualise three key functions through which city networks influence local climate governance: learning, moulding and steering. This work emphasises the ambitious climate action conducted by cities, but cautions against the power and politics that these might entail thus raising questions of equity in global climate governance.
