Nairobi, 20 March 2019-- On the last day of the just concluded 4th UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), 24 young men and women from the Mathare Environmental Conservation Youth Group (MECYG) hosted Precious Plastics, a group of young Kenyans who process plastic waste and turn it into market ready products.
UN-Habitat and Tongji University launch publications on rehabilitating urban rivers and net zero carbon villages
Nairobi, 19 March 2019—UN-Habitat Executive Director Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif and Prof. Wu Jiang, the Executive Vice President of Tongji University last week jointly launched two publications on rehabilitation of polluted urban rivers and guidelines for net zero carbon villages in Yangtze Delta Region.
UN Environment Assembly hosts inaugural Cities Summit
Nairobi, 13 March 2019 – UN-Habitat and UN Environment, together with ICLEI, UCLG and Cities Alliance, co-hosted the first Cities Summit during the Fourth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA4) in Nairobi. Held under the theme Innovation for Livable and sustainable Cities: Multi-level and Integrated Urban Systems, the Cities Summit provided a forum for high level dialogue between mayors, ministers, private sector leaders and civil society representatives.
CALL FOR EXPERTS: Smart Cities Expert Group Meeting | Egypt Theory and Possible Applications: Cairo, 24-25th March 2019
We are pleased to invite you to our workshop on:
"Unification of the Egyptian Code for Principles and Requirements of Smart City Planning, Management, Operation and Sustainability".
At Cairo Mariott Hotel, Zamalek, Cairo| Egypt
The event is co-organised with the General Organization for Physical Planning (GOPP), the Housing and Building National Research Center (HBRC), and the Urban Training Institute (UTI).
Applications open for new UN-Habitat training course on sustainable transportation in Asian cities
NAIROBI, March 2019 – UN-Habitat is organizing an eight-day training course to develop skills and know-how in transport sector policy and implementation
The course, which will be in the form of an interactive, problem solving workshop, will run from 25 April to 2 May 2019 is organized by the Capacity Development Unit and Urban Mobility Unit, specifically the Urban Pathways programme at IUTC Eco-complex in Gangwon Province, Republic of Korea.
Kenya’s Kisii Town validates Draft Solid Waste Management Strategy
Kisii, Kenya: The stakeholders in solid waste management in Kisii town, Kenya, provided inputs to the draft long term strategy for solid waste management in the town. The strategy was prepared UN-Habitat in consultation with Kisii town authorities. The Strategy Document is one of the three outputs under the ongoing UN-Habitat and Kisii County Project.
Statement of the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif, on the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 302
11 March 2019
NAIROBI – UN-Habitat is deeply saddened by the sudden loss of our dear colleagues who lost their lives on Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 302, which crashed yesterday on its way to Nairobi. The latest information indicates several United Nations personnel died in the incident, and nationals of many of our Member States.
The United Nations and its Member States have suffered a huge loss. Our deepest sympathies are with the families and loved ones of our colleagues and partners so tragically lost in this incident.