UN-Habitat and partners unveil OCEANIX Busan, the world’s first prototype floating city
April 27th, 2022
New York, 26 April 2022 – UN-Habitat, the Busan Metropolitan City of the Republic of Korea, and OCEANIX today unveiled at the UN Headquarters the design of the world’s first prototype sustainable…
UN-Habitat joins the opening of the World Urban Pavilion to promote SDGs
April 26th, 2022
Toronto, Canada, 26 April 2022 – The World Urban Pavilion, an international partnership which hopes to advance the knowledge of urban development and the implementation and the promotion of the…
Promoting integrated solutions through capacity building in Refugee settlement
April 22nd, 2022
Nairobi, Kenya, 21 April 2022 – When COVID-19 wreaked havoc, UN-Habitat learned quickly that reliable and accurate data helped significantly in Housing, Land, and Property Rights (HLP). Unfortunately…
Sustainable urbanization and the implementation of the New Urban Agenda
April 21st, 2022
New York/Geneva, 19 April 2022 – The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) will convene a special meeting on sustainable urbanization and the implementation of the New Urban Agenda on…
UN-Habitat programme contributes to climate mitigation, resiliency in Brazil
April 19th, 2022
Teresina, Brazil, 22 April 2022 – The temperature in this northeast Brazilian city increased by over 2 degrees Celsius in the last century -a rate above the global 1°C average. It is the poorest…
UN-Habitat project in Sudan contributes to climate adaptation measures
April 19th, 2022
Khartoum, Sudan, 22 April 2022 – When the first case of COVID-19 hit Sudan on 12 March 2020, it created more than a national dilemma that most countries in the world also had to deal with. It also…
UN-Habitat helps Pakistan to lower greenhouse gas emissions in slums
April 19th, 2022
Karachi, Pakistan, 22 April 2022 – Pakistan is the most urbanized nation in South-East Asia but more than a third of that population faces urban challenges. Karachi, the country’s most populated city…
UN-Habitat Building Resilient Settlements for the Urban Poor in south-east Africa
April 19th, 2022
Lilongwe, Malawi, 22 April 2022 – As the impacts of climate change are increasingly felt across south-east Africa, an integrated approach is critical to strengthen climate action, improve urban…
What’s in a definition? A lot, when it comes to data collection
April 14th, 2022
Naivasha, Kenya April 14 – Until not long ago, urban planners, housing authorities, or officials in any country would have been hard-pressed to give a definition of what constitutes a city, urban…
UN-Habitat and Microsoft work to make datacentre communities more inclusive and sustainable
April 13th, 2022
Queretaro, Mexico, 13 April 2022 – The Microsoft Corporation is using UN-Habitat’s urban planning and sustainability expertise to improve the quality of life of the communities near the datacenters…
Nominations for the 2022 UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award now open
April 13th, 2022
Nairobi, 13 April 2022 – UN-Habitat, the United Nations agency focusing on sustainable urbanization, is calling for nominations for its prestigious Scroll of Honour award. The award, launched in 1989…
Mozambique National Urban Forum build consensus on strategic principles for the National Urban Policy
April 12th, 2022
Maputo, Mozambique, 12 April 2022 –Policymakers, national and international specialists, civil society organizations and partners attended the country’s second National Urban Forum to discuss how the…
The IPCC report on mitigation of climate change reckons that Net Zero is still possible
April 12th, 2022
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change released last week confirms that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have continued to rise…
UN-Habitat Global Public Space Programme announces the small-scale public space projects awards
April 11th, 2022
Nairobi, 11 April 2022 – UN-Habitat’s Global Public Space Programme, in partnership with the Block by Block Foundation, has announced the selected candidates for the 2022 fund on implementing small-…
UN-Habitat, partners call for more area-based approaches to urban responses to guide urban recovery
April 11th, 2022
Brussels, Belgium, 8 April 2022 – Officials from UN-Habitat, UN Development Programme (UNDP), the European Union (EU) and World Bank met in Brussels earlier this week for policy dialogue on Urban…