Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Pakistan, UN to implement new urban agenda

Sustainable Development
Pakistan, UN to implement new urban agenda
Al-Bab Report


Quito: By 2030, Pakistan's population is expected to reach 260 million and half of the population will live in urban areas, making cities central to climate action, prosperity, peace, and human rights. On the occasion of World Cities Day 2016 and in light of the recent development of the New Urban Agenda which was adopted at the Habitat III Conference in Quito, Ecuador, on October 20, 2016, high officials from the Ministry of Climate Change and UN-Habitat gathered in Islamabad to discuss prospects of implementing the New Urban Agenda in the country to make Pakistan's cities habitable and trigger economic prosperity.

Zahid Hamid - Federal Minister for Climate Change, "As the Government of Pakistan's focal Ministry for urbanization, it is our foremost responsibility to improve the quality of life of residents of the urban areas.Bella Evidente, Country Programme Manager, UN-Habitat Pakistan - "Within the United Nations system, UN-Habitat is the focal agency for all urbanization and human settlement matters.

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