On 5th June 2017 at the World Environment Day celebrated in the Myanmar capital city Nay Pyi Taw, H.E. the President of the Union of the Republic of Myanmar, U HtinKyaw, addressing a large audience of ministers, ambassadors and development partner representatives, stated that “climate change is a threat to development”.
For half a decade UN-Habitat, through its Cities and Climate Change Initiative and Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme, has assisted the urban areas, both formal and informal, of the City of Honiara in the Solomon Islands with adaptation planning. Assistance began in 2012 with a participatory analysis of vulnerability and adaptive capacity.
Following a two year process, UN-Habitat was accredited to the Adaptation Fund in August 2015. It has since successfully submitted a concept note entitled, “Enhancing
the climate and disaster resilience of the most vulnerable rural and emerging urban human settlements in Lao PDR”.
Cities all over the world are growing and transforming through processes of densification and sprawl.
2018 Review of SDGs implementation: SDG 11 – Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
The broad purpose of any mobility planning exercise is to identify how far the needs of existing and potential transport users are being met, and to close any gap between what is provided and what is needed.
In July 2018, Goal 11 will be reviewed for the first time as part of the United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) -- a platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
