How Katowice, Poland, went from coal city to culture and conference hub
July 18th, 2022
By Laura Puttkamer “When I first came to Katowice in 1991, it was one of the most polluted cities in Europe,” remembers Jean-Christophe Adrian, then UN Habitat’s task manager for the Sustainable…
Annual Report 2021
July 18th, 2022
Nepal joins UN-Habitat and European Commission initiative on applying global definition of urban areas
July 14th, 2022
Kathmandu, Nepal, 14 July 2022 – Officials in Nepal, a country whose urban population has increased nearly four-fold in a decade, are better equipped to provide harmonised nationwide urban planning…
The 2022 UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award nominations extended until 15 August
July 12th, 2022
UN-Habitat, the United Nations agency focusing on sustainable urbanization, has extended the deadline to receive nominations for its prestigious Scroll of Honour Award. The new closing date is 15…
Add your voice to the Katowice Declared Actions
July 8th, 2022
The Eleventh Session of the World Urban Forum in Katowice ended with a call to act to advance sustainable development. The premier UN conference on urbanization took place on 26-30 June 2022 in…
Amman to launch the first report analysing SDGs at the local level in the Arab Region
July 7th, 2022
Amman, Jordan, 7 July 2022 – Crucial to the understanding the state of cities and building their resilience is up-to-date information, data and analyses of urban contexts and trends. The Greater…
UN Report: Intersecting global crises threatening SDGs, impacting food supplies, health, education, and security worldwide
July 7th, 2022
New York, 7 July 2022 - The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022 reveals that the convergence of increased fighting, the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, and the long-term climate crisis, could…
Citizens and governments must work together to avert global water shortage, says an expert
July 5th, 2022
Water shortage is a global worsening reality but there are may ways the existing resources can be used more wisely, says a UN-Habitat expert on the issue. In an interview with the German broadcast…
Winners of the UN-Habitat Better Cities Film Festival
July 5th, 2022
WUF11 closes with calls for urgent urban action
July 1st, 2022
UIA 2030 Award Winners
June 29th, 2022
Democratization of Design: "Equal Cities Need Equal Voices"
June 27th, 2022
Eleventh Session of the World Urban Forum opens
June 27th, 2022