The President of the UN General Assembly has called for a one-day High-Level Meeting on 28 April 2022 to bring more attention to the New Urban Agenda and countries’ more robust commitment to it. UN-Habitat has been working with regional, national, and local authorities across the continents to help them with expertise and capacity building. Below are some examples of UN-Habitat’s work with its global partners.
Statement of s. Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN-Habitat at the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in New York on 28 April 2022
High-level General Assembly meeting to assess the implementation of the New Urban Agenda
New York/Geneva, 21 April 2022 – The President of the General Assembly, Abdulla Shahid, will convene a one-day high-level meeting, in collaboration with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), to assess progress in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda, on Thursday 28 April 2022, at the UN headquarters in New York.
Cities are facing unprecedented demographic, environmental, economic, social, and spatial challenges. Six out of every ten people in the world are expected to reside in urban areas by 2030, rising to nearly 68 per cent by 2050, according to the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
UN-Habitat and partners unveil OCEANIX Busan, the world’s first prototype floating city
New York, 26 April 2022 – UN-Habitat, the Busan Metropolitan City of the Republic of Korea, and OCEANIX today unveiled at the UN Headquarters the design of the world’s first prototype sustainable floating city. OCEANIX Busan aims to provide breakthrough technology for coastal cities facing severe land shortages that are compounded by climatic threats.
Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Cuba
Havana, Cuba, 27 April 2022–During Habitat III Conference in Quito Ecuador, held in October 2016, Cuba adopted the New Urban Agenda as a guide to define the priority actions on territorial and urban development in the country. Cuba has assumed the commitment to guide its national and local urban plans based on this Global Agenda.