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A vision for cities has never been more important than it is today. More than half of the world’s inhabitants live in cities and this migration trend is expected to continue. By...

UN Millennium Development Goals (Goal 7) Fact Sheet

The pace of urban growth has been unprecedented. Around the turn of the century, for the first time in history, urban dwellers outnumbered their rural counterparts, and by 2015,...

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2016 71/256. New Urban Agenda

UN-Habitat and partners have prepared this “Monitoring Framework” as a guide to assist national and local governments in their efforts to collect, analyze, validate data and inf...

People across the Asia-Pacific region live with diverse and interlinked risks. These risks are related to increasingly severe and complex shocks to the political, social, econom...

Asia-Pacific countries need to accelerate progress against SDG 11 by empowering local governments and community groups to deliver against this goal in an integrated fashion acro...

UN-Habitat’s City Prosperity Initiative (CPI) is a global initiative that enables city authorities, as well as local and national stakeholders, to identify opportunities and pot...

The 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production patterns (10YFP) is a global framework of action to enhance international cooperation to accelerate...

Following on the outcome of the 2010 High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations Secretary-General established the...

This is the final text of the outcome document adopted at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 13–16 July 2015) and endorsed...

An analysis paper on World Mining Data. The sufficient supply of minerals and other raw materials under fair market conditions is an essential basis for a well-functioning econo...

Exploring the environmental and social policies and project performance of the Chinese overseas hydropower industry; Comparing of the environmental and social policies of Chine...

Press Release: [San Francisco, CA, April 2018] The Mekong River in Southeast Asia is the 8th largest river in the world, traversing eight countries with some 60 million people. ...

Data on the LMCs on Key Dimensions of Water Security, developed by ADB.

ESCAP, its partners and Asia-Pacific countries have advocated “green growth” as a strategy to achieve sustainable development in the resource-constrained, high-poverty context o...

The primary aim of the ASY is to provide accurate, reliable and timely historical annual data on ASEAN in the following fields: population, education, health, employment, macroe...

Resolution to strengthen Asia-Pacific’s Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14

Description of the ASEAN Working Group on Coastal and Marine Environment.

The ASCC 2025 vision is for an ASEAN Community that engages and benefits the peoples and is inclusive, sustainable, resilient, and dynamic.