UN / CLOS HABITAT III

Following the adoption of the new Urban Agenda at the Habitat III conference in Quito earlier this month, UN-HABITAT Executive, Director Joan Clos, said urbanization “is the dominant world changing force of the 21st century, happening at a pace and a scale that exceeds previous centuries of urban expansion.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:24
• Production Date: 31 October 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: JOAN CLOS
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PROGRAMME – UN-HABITAT
• Subject Topical: CONFERENCES; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; URBANIZATION
• Geographic Subject: ECUADOR
• MAMS Id: 1761399
• Parent Id: 1761399
• Alternate Title: unifeed161031c

Description

STORY: UN / CLOS HABITAT III
TRT: 02:24
SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 31 OCTOBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Wide shot, press
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-HABITAT:
“Urbanization is the dominant world changing force of the 21st century, happening at a pace and a scale that exceeds previous centuries of urban expansion. Today we live in a world in which 3.7 billion people – 55 percent of the global population – live in cities, and a figure that will increase to 7 billion by 2050, from 3.7 today to 7 billion in 2050. It is clear that urbanization impacts people’s lives everywhere, in the developing and also in the developed world.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-HABITAT:
“The historical outcome of Habitat III is the new urban agenda adopted in Quito. The new urban agenda will be our guide to achieve major advances towards global transformative and sustainable urban development over the next 20 years.”
7. Med shot, dais
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-HABITAT:
“The new urban agenda supports an implementation model that is committed to building robust urban governance structures at national and local levels along with planning and management frameworks. Furthermore the new urban agenda reinforces a fair and equitable municipal finance model for the efficient management and maintenance of our cities.”
9. Med shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-HABITAT:
“The framework of implementation is going to be very specific and it’s going to be around five main points of the urban agenda, that is to say, first; the national urban policy, second; the legislative framework for urbanization, third; the urban planning framework for urbanization, fourth; financing for urbanization, and fifth; local implementation of urban planning and regeneration plans at local level.”
11. Wide shot, end of presser

Storyline

Following the adoption of the new Urban Agenda at the Habitat III conference in Quito earlier this month, UN-HABITAT Executive, Director Joan Clos, today (31 Oct) said urbanization “is the dominant world changing force of the 21st century, happening at a pace and a scale that exceeds previous centuries of urban expansion.”

Clos noted that 55 percent of the global population live in cities today, and that figure “will increase to 7 billion by 2050, from 3.7 today to 7 billion in 2050.”

The UN official said “the new urban agenda will be our guide to achieve major advances towards global transformative and sustainable urban development over the next 20 years.”

He said the agenda “supports an implementation model that is committed to building robust urban governance structures at national and local levels along with planning and management frameworks” and furthermore it “reinforces a fair and equitable municipal finance model for the efficient management and maintenance of our cities.”
Clos noted that the implementation framework “is going to be very specific and it’s going to be around five main points of the urban agenda, that is to say, first; the national urban policy, second; the legislative framework for urbanization, third; the urban planning framework for urbanization, fourth; financing for urbanization, and fifth; local implementation of urban planning and regeneration plans at local level.”

Among the key provisions of the new Urban Agenda are a call for equal opportunities for all; an end to discrimination; cleaner cities; strengthening resilience and reducing carbon emissions; fully respecting the rights of migrants and refugees regardless of their status; improving connectivity and green initiatives, and promoting “safe accessible and green public spaces.”

Habitat III brought together mayors, local and regional authorities, civil society and community groups, and urban planners. Mayors said the conference advanced the participation of local authorities in the global effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.