UN-HABITAT United Nations Human Settlements Programme [to 12 December 2015]
http://unhabitat.org/media-centre/news/
[Selected Announcements]

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Cities in spotlight at Climate Change Summit COP21
Paris, 8th December 2015. City leaders can become critical actors in addressing the global challenges of climate change. The effects of urbanisation and climate change are converging in very threatening ways: Cities consume 78 per cent of…
Posted December 11, 2015

Experts meet on role of metropolitan development in New Urban Agenda
Guadalajara, 10 December 2015— About 30 international experts last week participated in a Global Experts Group Meeting (EGM) “The Role of Metropolitan Development in Supporting the New Urban Agenda”, in Guadalajara (Mexico).

Deputy Executive Director decries inequality in African cities
Johannesburg 4 December 2015, The Deputy Executive Director of UN-Habitat, Dr. Aisa Kacyira Kirabo has warned that the wide inequality witnessed in African cities was the greatest threat to sustainable urbanization on the continent. “It is good…
Posted December 7, 2015