The Urban Nexus, The Sustainable Development
Goals and Habitat III: Towards a New Urban Agenda
Donovan Storey
Chief, Sustainable Urban Development,
Environment & Development Division
The Global Agenda 2015/16:
Toward a ‘new deal’ for cities?
The post-2015 development
agenda (aka the SDGs)
Habitat III
Final outcomes of the Urban SDG process
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The Report of the Open Working Group on SDGs contains 17 Sustainable
Development Goals, 126 core targets and 43 MOI targets.
The OWG proposed a on “Making Cities and Human Settlements Inclusive,
Safe, Resilient and Sustainable”, currently known as SDG-11 with 7 action
targets and 3 MOI targets.
Final Proposed Targets
Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe,
resilient and sustainable
11.1 by 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and
basic services, and upgrade slums
11.2 by 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport
systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with
special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons
with disabilities and older persons
11.3 by 2030 enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacities for
participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management
in all countries
11.4 strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural
heritage
11.5 by 2030 significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of affected
people and decrease by y% the economic losses relative to GDP caused by disasters,
including water-related disasters, with the focus on protecting the poor and people in
vulnerable situations
11.6 by 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by
paying special attention to air quality, municipal and other waste management
11.7 by 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and
public spaces, particularly for women and children, older persons and persons with
disabilities
Final Proposed Targets
Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe,
resilient and sustainable
11.a support positive economic, social and environmental links between
urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional
development planning
11.b by 2020, increase by x% the number of cities and human settlements
adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion,
resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience
to disasters, develop and implement in line with the forthcoming Hyogo
Framework holistic disaster risk management at all levels
11.c support least developed countries, including through financial and
technical assistance, for sustainable and resilient buildings utilizing local
materials
Mapping of Goal 11 Targets
GOAL
CORE TARGETS (OUTCOMEORIENTED)
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe,
resilient and sustainable
Housing/Slums/
Services
Transport (inc
Public Transport)
Urban
Planning
Cultural
Heritage
Disaster Risk
Reduction
Environmental
Impact
Policies/Plans
(inc Resilience)
Financial/Tech
Assistance
Safe
Public Space
MOI TARGETS
(PROCESS-ORIENTED)
Rural-Urban
Linkages
Habitat III
The third United Nations Conference
on Housing and Sustainable Urban
Development (Habitat III) will be
convened in 2016, in line with the bidecennial cycle (1976, 1996, 2016) to
reinvigorate the global commitment to
sustainable urbanization and to focus
on the implementation of a “New
Urban Agenda”
Habitat III will be the first United
Nations global conference after the
adoption of the Post-2015
Development Agenda
Six subject areas for the
new urban agenda
social cohesion and equity –
liveable cities;
spatial development;
urban frameworks;
urban economy;
urban ecology and environment;
and
urban housing and basic services.
Integrating the 3 Dimensions of Sustainable
Development: an emerging regional agenda
• Theme study for the 71st Commission
Session of ESCAP, May 2015
• Examined the integration of the three
dimensions of sustainable
development as a concept and as a
practical implementation principle.
• Emphasized the urgent need for a
people-centred and planet-sensitive
development agenda in the AsiaPacific region
• Outlined strategies and policy options,
and perspectives on institutional
frameworks to support integration of
the three dimensions of sustainable
development.
• Call for greater regional cooperation.
Towards a ‘new deal’ for cities? Opportunities in the
New Urban Agenda and Urban Nexus initiatives
The urban nexus – in managing the critical resources of water, energy and food
through an integrated, collaborative and participatory approach - is of great
relevance to both the SDGs and Habitat III
By integrating policies and
measures across critical
resources, the nexus
approach aims to:
• enhance synergies;
• reduce trade-offs
• ultimately support
transition to
sustainability
By shifting towards sustainable
resource management, the
urban nexus fundamentally
promotes sustainable urban
development, through:
Integrating “resource
nexus” into agreed
international
development goals:
• sustainable urban & peri• Balancing the social,
urban ecosystem services
economic,
• integrated and well-organized
environmental
spatial development
dimensions
• looking beyond the rural• Achieving coherence
urban dichotomy
across goals
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Towards a new urban agenda: key Asia-Pacific
milestones
• ESCAPs regional role underpinned by ESCAP
Resolution 70/12 ‘Strengthening efforts on human
settlements and sustainable human development
for the Asia-Pacific region’
• The High-level regional preparatory meeting to
Habitat III in Asia and the Pacific, hosted by
Indonesia, Jakarta, 22-23 October 2015
• The sixth Asia-Pacific Urban Forum, to be held backto-back, Jakarta, 19-21 October 2015 (including a
special session on urban nexus)
• The Regional Report, which will reflect ongoing
analysis and the substantive outcomes of the above
meetings
• The third session of the preparatory committee for
Habitat III, to be hosted by Indonesia in July 2016
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