{"id":5889,"date":"2018-02-08T10:53:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T01:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abclive.in\/?p=5889"},"modified":"2018-02-08T11:26:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T02:26:50","slug":"un-habitat-bats-new-urban-agenda-wuf9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/un-habitat-bats-new-urban-agenda-wuf9\/","title":{"rendered":"UN-Habitat Bats for New Urban Agenda in WUF9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kuala Lumpur (ABC Live):UN-Habitat\u00a0 : The head of the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat<\/span><\/a>) said on Wednesday that a week-long conference on sustainable urban development that kicked off Wednesday in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, will open a \u201cglobal conversation about our cities and human settlements.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWith its genuine openness and inclusive nature, the World Urban Forum (WUF9<\/span><\/a>) is unique on the United Nations conference circuit,\u201d said Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director of UN-Habitat in her remarks to the opening of the Forum, which runs through Saturday, 13 January.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a chance for stakeholders from all over the world \u2013 from ministers, local government and urban planners, to civil society groups, the private sector, academia and the media \u2013 to contribute to the global conversation about our cities and human settlements,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ms. Sharif called WUF9 a platform where people from all walks of life share their experience of finding homes, jobs and lives in urban spaces around the world and a chance for some of the world\u2019s most marginalized to highlight their experiences in being denied some of the advantages cities pose.<\/span><\/p>\n

For current and future partners, the UN-Habitat chief saw the Forum as an opportunity to showcase the innovative ideas and solutions to challenges being confronted in urban and rural human settlements \u2013 and to learn from experts in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ms. Sharif maintained that WUF9 is \u201cthe ideal platform to debate the contribution that positive urban development makes to delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs<\/span><\/a>), in particular Goal 11, and the\u00a0New Urban Agenda<\/span><\/a>,\u201d which was adopted in 2016 by the UN conference known as\u00a0Habitat III<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recent debates and studies have indeed acknowledged that sustainable urbanization is an essential tool for addressing the global challenges of poverty, exclusion, conflict and climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe New Urban Agenda comes at a critical moment, when for the first time in history over half of the world\u2019s population is residing in cities,\u201d she said, which, if planned and managed well, can be \u201cthe main tool for sustainable development and a solution to many of the challenges our planet is facing today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

WUF9 is the first major milestone after the adoption of the New Urban Agenda, which lays out the vision for future cities based on the science of urban development providing tools in crucial areas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Barely three weeks into her tenure as the UN-Habitat chief, Ms. Sharif said it is \u201can honour and a privilege\u201d that the Forum, which is held every two years in different parts of the world, was being hosted in her native Malaysia, saying \u201cKuala Lumpur will have the chance to showcase some of its own urban innovations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She concluded her statement with the assertion that she looked forward to joining \u201cthe global conversation on promoting socially, economically and environmentally sustainable cities for all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kuala Lumpur (ABC Live):UN-Habitat\u00a0 : The head of the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) said on Wednesday that a week-long conference on sustainable urban development that kicked off Wednesday in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, will open a \u201cglobal conversation about our cities and human settlements.\u201d \u201cWith its genuine openness and inclusive nature, the World […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3469,6],"tags":[3667],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abclive.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}