Sustainable Urbanization in the Paris Agreement 2016 Sustainable Urbanization in the Paris Agreement’ – a comparative review of Nationally Determined Contributions for Urban Content”, a UN-Habitat publication coming on the heels of Habitat III, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and COP22. The adoption of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) on 20 October 2016, and the entry into force of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change two weeks later, on 4 November 2016, are a strong first step toward the immediate implementation of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, in urban- and climate change related matters.
In this final version of the publication, UN-Habitat analyzes the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) towards the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, with a special focus on the urban context, in order to understand better the roles of member states in urban climate action. The result is very encouraging: over two-thirds – 113 out of 164 – of the submitted NDCs show clear urban references and content, establishing the relationship between sustainable urbanization and climate action. Through the New Urban Agenda and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, UN-Habitat stands ready to support member states to implement their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
Unpacking Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Development: Analysis of Case Studies: Summary Reports of Case Studies 2016 This case study analysis forms part of the publication series “Unpacking metropolitan governance” that documents experiences and gives hands-on approaches for stakeholders in the field of sustainable development of metropolitan regions.
The analysis and the summary reports of the case studies of Metropolitan Bandung (Indonesia), Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (Mexico) and e-Thekwini (Durban, South Africa) are following the joint publication of the discussion paper “Unpacking Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Development”, UN-Habitat, GIZ and FMDV encourage a critical and intensive discussion among policy makers and practitioners about the findings and recommendations offered by the discussion paper, case study reports, and analyses.
The publication series shall serve as a reference point for the ongoing international discussion on transforming urbanization, implementing the Sustainable Development Goals at the local and metropolitan level and thereby contribute to the Habitat III debate.
The Cities Iranians Need 2016 The City Iranians Need Toward a New Urban Agenda is a joint publication of the National Land & Housing Organization, Ministry of Roads and Urban Development and Un-Habitat Office in Tehran. The first edition has been prepared for presentation to the Habitat III
Slum Almanac 2015-2016 2016 In our world, one in eight people live in slums. In total, around a billion people live in slum conditions today. This not only amounts to a rather unacceptable contemporary reality but to one whose numbers are continuously swelling. In spite of great progress in improving slums and preventing their formation– represented by a decrease from 39 per cent to 30 per cent of urban population living in slums in developing countries between 2000 and 2014 – absolute numbers continue to grow and the slum challenge remains a critical factor for the persistence of poverty in the world, excluding fellow humans and citizens from the benefits of urbanisation and from fair and equal opportunities to attain individual and collective progress and prosperity.
Habitat Country Programme for South Sudan 2016-2020 2016
Habitat III regional report: Housing and urban development in the economic commission for Europe region 2016 The Regional Reports were prepared by the respective United Nations Regional Commissions and the Regional Offices of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), in collaboration with the Habitat III Secretariat. A significant number of experts from different countries of the region representing various constituencies, including academia, civil society, United Nations agencies and programmes and governmental institutions, contributed to the preparation of the report.
城市与区域规划国际准则 2016
Framework for evaluating Continuum of Land Rights scenarios 2016 A significant portion of land interests around the world are not recorded, leaving a large number of people vulnerable to land grabbing by the state and other powerful interests. The continuum of land rights is gaining traction globally as a metaphor to guide policies and strategies to improve equity in land tenure and land transactions, and to increase official recognition of different tenure types that provide various levels of security. The continuum offers an alternative approach to the dominant focus on titling of individually held private property as the ultimate form of tenure security, or the end goal of land tenure reforms. It promotes recognition and increase of security across the continuum, with opportunity for movement or transformation between different tenure forms.
Towards an Arab Urban Agenda 2016 Building on the core pillars of the Arab Strategy for Housing and Sustainable Urban Development 2030, the Arab Urban Agenda report has been produced, with an action oriented framework and an aim to consolidate the vision of the Arab region for urban development, and provide its perspective of the implementation of the New Urban Agenda in the region as well as the achievement of the SDGs, in particular the SDG 11 and other urban related goals.
Financing National Housing Policies: Lessons for the Developing World 2016 Final Report on the Global Experts Group Meeting ¨Financing National Housing Policies: Lessons for the Developing World¨ held in Madrid, Spain, 10th -11th May 2016