, where young people are equal citizens and are encouraged and supported to achieve their fullest potential as global citizens.
Cities should better integrate both natural and constructed environments in order to form urban ecosystems, supported by related resource-planning and infrastructure policies. There are serious challenges in retrofitting existing cities to meet these goals; as a result, there have been radical attempts to build resource-efficient, green cities from scratch.
Cities &Urbanization
Cities that are inclusive are more creative, innovative, and sustainable.
Modernizing buildings for greater resilience requires long-term, partnership-driven approaches tailored to the needs of owners and operators.
Traditional efforts have largely been fragmented and opaque, these approaches are slow, costly and inefficient, taking years per building and generating isolated reports that make it challenging to develop long-term strategies.
Inclusive Cities
The system of retrofitting buildings improves asset visibility, empowering owners, operators and facility managers with real-time data, deeper insights and better decision-making for investments. They also provide sustainability managers with critical energy consumption information, helping advance net-zero goals.
Initiatives to strengthen the international human rights architecture are critical, as systemic, existential challenges continue to mount for humanity - whether in the form of a pandemic, the climate crisis, or due to profound technological change - requiring renewed international solidarity and unprecedented, collective sacrifice..
Urban Society
Focusing on intersectionality brings advantages; it acknowledges the complexity of peoples’ experiences, and takes into account their unique social and historical context.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948 was the first international affirmation of the inherent dignity and equal rights of all people. The Declaration spells out the basic civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights that everyone is entitled to - and should respect and protect.
Initiatives to strengthen the international human rights architecture are critical, as systemic, existential challenges continue to mount for humanity - whether in the form of a pandemic, the climate crisis, or due to profound technological change - requiring renewed international solidarity and unprecedented, collective sacrifice.
The distinction between temporary shocks and the chronic, long-term stress that affect urban areas is sometimes unclear. Social upheaval that seems to have been triggered unexpectedly is often underpinned by longstanding underlying tension.
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Urban Infrastructure
and Services
Cities require a range of basic infrastructure and services in order to be viable: sanitation systems, power grids, roads, public transportation, housing, hospitals, and schools. Particularly in developing countries, cities face considerable challenges in providing this infrastructure, and accelerating development is essential to alleviate poverty and improve liveability. Establishing robust infrastructure and services is also necessary to boost resilience in the face of challenges like climate change and rising sea levels.
Safe Spaces for
Speaking Up
It is necessary to expand opportunities for everyone to speak up without fear, and to develop restrictions that can only be applied when there is a clear incitement to violence. This will require eradicating the barriers to social media access for peaceful views, and safeguarding the fundamental right to expression in ways that enable people around the world to realize their many other rights.
Everyone should have the right to seek, receive, and impart sincere and credible ideas and information through any form of media, and across any border. Such freedom of expression and information exchange can enable the realization of other human rights.
The system of retrofitting buildings improves asset visibility, empowering owners, operators and facility managers with real-time data, deeper insights and better decision-making for investments. They also provide sustainability managers with critical energy consumption information, helping advance net-zero goals.
The system of retrofitting buildings improves asset visibility, empowering owners, operators and facility managers with real-time data, deeper insights and better decision-making for investments. They also provide sustainability managers with critical energy consumption information, helping advance net-zero goals.
The system of retrofitting buildings improves asset visibility, empowering owners, operators and facility managers with real-time data, deeper insights and better decision-making for investments. They also provide sustainability managers with critical energy consumption information, helping advance net-zero goals.