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| The Secretary-General message on World Habitat Day, 1 October 2012 |
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Half the world's people now live in towns and cities. In little more than a generation, two-thirds of the global population will be urban. As the proportion of humanity living in the urban environment grows, so too does the need to strengthen the urban focus of our efforts to reduce global poverty and promote sustainable development.
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| THE NAIROBI DECLARATION: Recommendations from the Youth 21 Building for Change Stakeholder Meeting and Global Youth Leadership Forum on Inclusive Governance March 15-18, Nairobi, Kenya |
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The Youth 21 global initiative was co-organized by UN HABITAT and UNDP. It gathered over two-hundred and twenty (220) youth representing youth-led organizations and movements from across the globe, as well as UN Member States, members of parliament, private sector, civil society organizations, researchers and UN Agencies. The aim of Youth 21 is for youth to engage with the United Nations and support them in working towards democratic governance and sustainable development. Youth 21 has prepared the Nairobi Declaration and its recommendations in the hope that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, supportive governemnts, civil society will work in partenrship with youth and engage them in governance at all levels, with an emphasis on creating mechanisms, such as the recently announced UN Secretary General's Special Advisor on Youth, to engage youth within the UN system and beyond.
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| Versión Estenográfica de la Intervención del Secretario de Desarrollo Social, Heriberto Félix Guerra, durante la Ceremonia de premiación del Día Mundial del Hábitat |
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Mexico
Sean todas y todos ustedes bienvenidos a México, bienvenidos a Aguascalientes. Celebramos hoy el día mundial del Hábitat con el tema “Ciudades y cambio climático”, el día Mundial del Habitar se creó para generar un espacio de reflexión sobre la problemática de las ciudades en el planeta, gracias por haber seleccionado a nuestro país, México como la sede de este importante espacio de reflexión, de intercambio de ideas de búsquedas de soluciones. Foro hábitat seleccionó este tema para ubicar en el centro de las discusiones internacionales en materia de cambio climático a las ciudades con un rol protagónico, en las ciudades viven poco ya más de la mitad de los 7 mil millones de seres humanos que hoy pueblan la tierra, sin embargo generan también, emiten 70% de los gases de efecto invernadero de ahí que el impacto de las ciudades en el cambio climático constituya hoy un reto prioritario para la comunidad internacional aquí reunida, ya que son clave para fomentar cambios en hábitos en conductas para reducir el calentamiento global.
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| The Secretary-General message on World Habitat Day, 3 October 2011 |
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This year, World Habitat Day falls during the month when demographers predict our planet's seven billionth inhabitant will be born. The future that this child and its generation will inherit depends to a great degree on how we handle the competing pressures of growing population growth, urbanization and climate change.
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| Plenary - Dialogue - Key messages of UCLG concerning basic services at the UN-HABITAT Governing Council 2011 |
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| Plenary - High Level Segment - Country report on progress of Urban Housing and Development presented at the 23rd session of the Governing Council of UN-HABITAT by Hon. Brig-Gen. Dr. Brian Chituwo (Rtd), GCDS, MP Minister of Local Government & Housing |
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The Secretary-General message on World Habitat Day, 1 October 2012 