In this issue:

• Environmental Management Information Systems in CCCI cities
• CCCI pilots Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in three cities
• CCCI starts to implement evaluation recommendations
• ARCADIS co...

       In this issue:

• Youth Caravan to COP17 in Durban, South Africa: UN-Habitat CCCI Youth Participate in Historic Event
• Thirteen Urban Districts in Rwanda Sign Up for Making Cities Resilient Campaign
• Climate Change ...

In this issue:

• Partners launch Global Protocol for Community-scale GHG Emissions
• UN-Habitat Applies for Accreditation as Agencies of the Global Environment Facility and Adaptation Fund
• Sihanoukville officials in city-...

Part of a series of four entitled Urban Patterns for a Green Economy, this guide argues that strategic investment in physical infrastructure with the diversification of economies allows cities to play a specialised role in polycentric urban deve...

Part of a series of four entitled Urban Patterns for a Green Economy, this guide (Working with Nature) focuses on the effect of unplanned, rapid growth of cities on the functioning of a city-region's natural systems. It outlines how guided devel...

Part of a series of four entitled Urban Patterns for a Green Economy, this guide explores the compact city and its benefits within the developed and developing world's contexts. The guide illustrates how the compact city concept and planned (ver...

Part of a series of four entitled Urban Patterns for a Green Economy, this guide proposes that cities can act as agents for change that allow their large populations to live less wastefully. It considers how infrastructure systems can be viewed ...

In this issue:

• Primary school supports innovative approach to flood risk management in Kampala
• Responding to an ever increasing demand, the Cities and Climate Change Initiative takes action in Asia and the Pacific
• Upc...

In this issue:

• Pilot initiatives in Sorsogon City address climate change;
• One year after conference, Green Building Movement struggles to take root in Africa
• UN-Habitat and UNEP join forces on Ecosystem-based adapta...

In this issue:

• Youth in Kampala, Uganda Look at Climate Change Through a Gender ‘Lens;
• Permaculture Demonstration Spaces in Esmeraldas, Ecuador

This publication is a call to action for cities to address Climate Change. It presents information and practical case studies of what cities can do to respond to one of today's leading challenges in 12 key messages. This publication takes the view...

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) developed this guide for city planners and other allied professionals to better understand, assess, and take action on climate change at the local level. While climate change is a global ...

In this issue:

• Innovative School Designs Increase Climate Resilience in Mozambique
• Mapping the Risks to a Batik Industry City in Indonesia
• First Sub-Regional Workshop of CCCI Held in Fiji

Cities consume the majority of world’s energy and are responsible, directly or indirectly, for the major proportion of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other pollution. At the same time, it is cities, and in particular the urban poor, in the dev...

In this issue:

• UN-Habitat Supports Two Municipalities in Mexico in Adapting to Climate Change in the Water Sector
• The UN-Habitat-ARCADIS Partnership Supports the Cities and Climate Change Initiative in Asia
• Preventing fl...

This edition covers the following topics:

• Buildings, Climate Change and Cities;
  
• Ecuador: Eco-Materials for Low Cost and Sustainable building;
  
• World Green Building Council;
  
• Builders Kick-Start...

UN-HABITAT, the United Nations agency for human settlements, helps the urban poor by transforming cities into safer, healthier, greener places with better opportunities where everyone can live in dignity. UN-HABITAT works with organizations at eve...

In Zambia the Sustainable Cities Programme was implemented in Lusaka from 1994-2001 to address high levels of poverty and inequality experienced in the city resulting from a shrinking economy as the co...

This edition covers the following topics:

• Ushering a new era of urban Planning and Management
• Urban Environment Strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Philippines: Strengthening institutional capacity to adapt to C...

Decision makers in local government face the ongoing challenge of how to provide services to the residents with limited resources. Whether drilling a new well to provide drinking water, renewing a road surface, buying new buses or issuing drivin...

World Habitat Day provides an excellent opportunity to highlight key human settlements issues. We would like to thank all our partners who in past years have organized awareness raising activities on the day and have described the celebrations t...

This Working Paper critically assesses the potential role of local authorities in promoting biodiversity conservation in the Lake Victoria Cities within the existing global framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity. It sets the broader c...

This edition covers the following topics:

• World Urban Forum 4: Harmonious Urbanization
• Improving cities through Localizing Agenda 21: Bayamo, Cuba
• World Cities Summit in Singapore
• UNEP works with Nairobi to impro...

This edition covers the following topics:

• Cities and Climate Change:The Road from Bali to Copenhagen
• Esmeraldas LA21:Planning for a Changing Climate
• UNEP Helps Bangkok Tackle Climate Change
• Climate-proofing Cape ...

The world continues to urbanize at an unprecedented pace and this year, for the first time ever, over half of the world’s population will be living in cities. While cities consume a major share of the planet’s resources and have often been the loc...

Modern cities are generally associated with vibrant economies that have opportunities for investments and development. In both developed and developing countries, cities generate a share of gross d...

 A Decade of United Nations Support for Broad-based participatory management of Urban Development (2002),

Dar es Salaam is the main industrial and commercial centre of the United Republic of Tanzania. It is a coastal city, located along the Indian Ocean. It has a population of approximately 2.5 million with an annual growth rate of 4.3%...

Cities are our destiny. Visions of a non- or de-urbanizing world, while interesting
and important intellectual creations of the 20th century, are no longer credible.

Energy has long been recognized to be essential in meeting basic human needs, in stimulating and supporting economic growth and in enhancing the quality of life in human settlements. Increased energy use means increased ability to produce the ne...

Approach and Implementation