One World – One Environment – One Network
Street tree planting in residential areas of cities can serve as a nature-based solution to reduce the risk of depression with added benefits of also addressing climate change and biodiversity loss. This should be...
Cities are crucial for sustainable development worldwide during the next decade, according to UN chief António Guterres. Speaking at the World Urban Forum, he highlighted that sustainable urbanization will help address climate change. Urbanization...
Buildings of the future may be lit by collections of glowing plants and designed around an infrastructure of sunlight harvesting, water transport, and soil collecting and composting systems. That’s the vision behind an interdisciplinary...
Rapid urbanisation is leading cities to divert water from the countryside to quench the thirst of their growing urban populations — and it is putting rural regions at risk of drought. Better urban planning...
UN-Habitat convened a roundtable discussion on how floating cities could help solve urban challenges such as climate change and lack of affordable housing. Over 70 architects, designers, academics and entrepreneurs gathered at UN headquarters...
New research shows that the higher a building, the more energy it requires for cooling, lighting, water and other systems. The findings could have a major impact on how urban planners approach densification. Bisma...
The second Swiss Resources Forum (rf-ch 2018) will take place on October 25, 2018 at the Empa Academy in Dübendorf near Zürich under the title “Science, business and cities together for more resource efficiency“....
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...
Researchers in Spain have discovered that women living closer to urban green spaces like parks or gardens have a lower risk of breast cancer. More and more studies are confirming the health benefits of...
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...
Two out of every three people are likely to be living in cities by 2050, according to a new UN report. India, China and Nigeria will account for much of that growth. Two-thirds of...
As debates rage about the growing threat of poor air quality to human health, scientists still lack enough of the right data to help governments accurately model and mitigate air pollution and its effects,...
The 26th Governing Council of UN-Habitat came to a successful conclusion on Friday. Highlights included a USD 11 million commitment for improving life in slums and a new housing profile for Afghanistan to cope with...
Nearly 600 million children around the world will live in areas with extremely limited water resources by 2040, warns UNICEF in a new report. The poorest children will be affected most as climate change...
Researchers have discovered that black carbon makes certain bacteria more resistant to antibiotics, revealing a new mechanism of how air pollution harms our health. Their findings also shed new light on the dangers megacities...
The 100 Resilient Cities network is helping cities around the world cope with some of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Dakar has become the first of eleven African cities to introduce a...
Urbanisation is eating up fertile farmland around the world. According to German researchers, its up to urban planners to stop this troubling trend. Around 300,000 square kilometres of fertile cropland will be lost by...
On 1 December 2016, the World Resource Forum (WRF), based in St. Gallen, met for the first time in its home country Switzerland. The GES was represented by Andrea Schaller and new member Norbert...
Refugees and other forcibly displaced populations can teach urban planners how to build communities in an efficient, human-centred way, argues the designer and architect Hans Park. Forcibly displaced populations are contributing to the trend...
The Swiss Innovation Forum 2016 in Basel allows young start-ups to present their newest ideas and creations at the Future Expo. This year, some environmentally friendly innovators caught our attention. Winners of the Swiss...
