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STORY: UN / SUSTAINABLE CITIES
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 4 OCTOBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
4 OCTOBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
4 OCTOBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“As the effects of climate change increase, urban resiliency becomes ever more necessary. The population in large coastal cities exposed to cyclones and hurricanes will more than double to 680 million by 2050. But climate change is not the only threat to growing urban population, more than half the world’s cities are in areas of high earthquake risk. The humanitarian and economic cost disasters is mounting.”
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Joan Clos, Executive Director of UN-Habitat:
“Taking into account that the world’s population will move from the 7 billion that we have today to 9 billion, that means that the urbanization in terms of figures and investment is a huge transformation of the life experience of a lot humans. And this is requiring political attention, economical attention, social attention, because it is one of the changing processes that is taking place in our planet in a most rapid way.”
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Joan Clos, Executive Director of UN-Habitat:
“It’s not just climate change. It’s climate change plus increase of urbanization. And then the two factors combined produces a cumulative increase of probabilities which is just, you know calling attention of the governments, because this is happening in real life. This is not a dream, this is a reality.”
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Joan Clos, Executive Director of UN-Habitat:
“There is room for improving the future for urbanization, in a proper design manner. What cannot be sustainable is spontaneous urbanization. When we have spontaneous urbanization, instead of well designed density, we have overcrowding. And this is what is happening in favelas, slums, and other places. Then, let’s stop overcrowding and let’s do proper compactness.”
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Cities must boost efforts to become more resilient to natural disasters as well as provide their citizens with methods of alternative transportation to thrive, senior United Nations officials said today (4 October).
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in his remarks at an event at UN Headquarters to mark World Habitat Day, observed annually on the first Monday of October, said that “as the effects of climate change increase, urban resilience becomes ever more necessary.”
The Secretary-General noted that the population in large coastal cities exposed to cyclones and hurricanes will more than double to 680 million by 2050, but he stressed that “climate change is not the only threat to growing urban population,” as “more than half the world’s cities are in areas of high earthquake risk.”
He said “the humanitarian and economic cost disasters is mounting.”
Natural hazards having killed some 1.1 million people since 2000. Since then, more than 2.7 billion have been affected and the economic cost is estimated at $1.3 trillion.
Ban also emphasized that improving urban mobility, this year’s theme for the Day, is crucial for a city’s development.
In a press conference at Headquarters, Executive Director of UN-Habitat Joan Clos said that with more people moving to urban areas an “taking into account that the world’s population will move from the 7 billion that we have today to 9 billion, that means that the urbanization in terms of figures and investment is a huge transformation of the life experience of a lot humans.”
He remarked that this issue requires “political attention, economical attention, social attention, because it is one of the changing processes that is taking place in our planet in a most rapid way.
Clos told reporters that the cause of the problem is “not just climate change. It’s climate change plus increase of urbanization.”
He said the two factors combined “produces a cumulative increase of probabilities which is just, you know calling attention of the governments, because this is happening in real life. This is not a dream, this is a reality.”
The Executive Director said there was “room for improving the future for urbanization, in a proper design manner.”
He said that spontaneous urbanization should be avoided as it generates overcrowding, as it is happening “in favelas, slums, and other places.”
Clos also emphasized that citizens need better mobility not just to go to work, but also to have access services, education and recreational activities. He added that countries face environmental and economic sustainability challenges to improve mobility.
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