UN-Habitat Cities and Climate Change Initiative.

Addressing Urban Issues in National Climate Change Policies.

 UN-Habitat Cities and Climate Change Initiative Newsletter.

Compact Cities to address climate change.

UN-Habitat Cities and Climate Change Initiative.

Partnership between water operators in Sri Lanka and Australia focuses on adaptation to climate change.

Yangon 19 June 2014: UN-Habitat and the government of Myanmar this week signed an agreement that will see the agency help in strengthening land administration and management system in that country.

Year 2015 was officially declared as the International Year of Evaluation at the Third International Conference on National Evaluation Capacities held in São Paulo, Brazil, 29 September-2 October 2013. UN-Habitat is supporting this initiative through the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG).

Nairobi, 12 June 2014: The second Future of Places conference, organised by UN-Habitat, the Project for Public Spaces and the Ax:son Johnson Foundation, will take place 1-3 September 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, it has been announced.

This is the second in a series of conferences organized to annually, in the run up to the third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development - Habitat III - in 2016, which explores the importance of planning, design, and management of public space in addition to access.

Why NUP is important for developing countries is to transform urbanization as a source of wealth: reaping social and economic benefits and managing and reducing negative externalizations. The current growth of urbanization tends to be unproductive in terms of livelihoods, and is characterized by slum growth and lack of basic urban services.

A National Urban Policy (NUP) is a coherent set of decisions derived through a deliberate government-led process of coordinating and rallying various actors for a common vision and goal that will promote more trans-formative, productive, inclusive and resilient urban  development for the long term (which can be from 20 to 30 or even 100 years horizon).

For over two decades, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)) have worked together to advocate for and promote environmental sustainability in urban development 

Bonn, 11 June 2014: UN-Habitat has chaired a dedicated cities forum at a conference held by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change aimed at highlighting sustainable urbanisation as a key factor in addressing global climate change.

The forum is part of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, known as ADP2014, and brought together key actors from the global debate on climate change.