One World – One Environment – One Network
Oxygen levels in the ancient oceans were surprisingly resilient to climate change, new research suggests. Scientists from ETH Zurich, the University of Exeter and Royal Holloway, University of London, used geological samples to estimate ocean oxygen during...
UN-Habitat and ICLEI teamed up in 2012 to support eight cities develop urban low emission development strategies. They have now taken the project into a second phase, in which they are supporting more than...
Two thirds of cities around the world are already noticing the damaging effects of climate change, but less than half have developed long-term plans to deal with those threats, finds a new report. Environmental...
The UN-Habitat Assembly ended with delegates passing five resolutions on a range of topics, including safer cities, implementing the New Urban Agenda, and improving urban-rural linkages for sustainable urbanization. The first-ever UN-Habitat Assembly, which...
Communities across the Greater Miami Area in southern Florida have launched a collaborative urban resilience strategy that addresses issues such as sea level rise, mobility and affordable housing. The Resilient305 Strategy is a collaboration...
The tiny South Pacific nation of Palau faced a huge environmental challenge a few years ago. Its people have now shown how even a small country can devise a big-impact strategy to cultivate sustainability....
Building resilience to natural disasters and economic crises is the key to successfully coping with mass urban migration, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on the occasion of World Cities Day. The theme of this...
World Cities Day is celebrated each year on 31 October. This year’s event will focus on building sustainable and resilient cities. The United Nations has designated 31 October as World Cities Day. Its aim...
A forthcoming study from McGill University suggests that developers and planning authorities involved in building over one hundred new cities around the world are doing very little to make their projects resilient to rising...
For the first time in history, more people live in cities than in rural areas. Ninety per cent of this urban expansion takes place in developing countries, and much of it occurs near natural...
To help achieve the sustainable urbanisation goals of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, African urban leaders will have to develop infrastructure that supports integrated, people-focused cities. Rapid population growth and urbanisation will see nearly...
Urban experts have established of a global blueprint to better understand climate change, its impact on cities and the critical role local authorities play in solving this challenge. The blueprint came at the end...
The IPCC’s latest climate change summit is underway in Edmonton, and this time cities rather than nations have been given a seat at the negotiating table. The three-day Cities and Climate Change Science Conference...
While the Obama administration did a lot to advance climate protection in the US, the real climate action is taking place in cities. American cities like Portland intend to continue their carbon reduction plans,...
The New Urban Agenda has been unanimously adopted at the Habitat III conference in Quito. Around 36,000 people from 167 different countries met last week to analyse and discuss the challenges facing cities. Last...
Climate change affects not only the environment – it also threatens to destabilise globally networked production and supply processes. These are the findings of a recent study conducted by German and American researchers. In...
Air pollution, climate change, unhealthy lifestyles and a disconnect between people and nature are having a major impact on human health across Europe, according to a recent UN report. The Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6)...
The World Bank has unveiled a new climate action that will see it spend 28 per cent of its investments on climate change projects in developing countries to help them achieve their national climate...
The UN disaster office is calling on governments to take more preventative action to reduce the human and economic toll caused by weather-related disasters. The last week of December is proving to be one...
Since 2008 an average of 26.4 million people have been displaced by disasters each year, which is equivalent to one person displaced every second. Poor disaster planning and protection measures are to blame –...
