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Meeting to discuss city image update
A meeting attended by representatives from eight different countries will be held in New York on October 29-30, addressing the issue that the image of cities as hotbeds of pollution, stress, poverty and crime needs an update. Counsellors, planners and other urban stakeholders from cities around the world, including New York and Chicago (USA), Cape Town (South Africa), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Montevideo (Uruguay), Rome (Italy), São Paulo (Brazil), Stockholm (Sweden), and Seoul (Republic of Korea), will meet scientists and conservation specialists in a two-day conference on ‘Urban Biosphere and Society: Partnership of Cities,' organised by Columbia University, UNESCO and UN-Habitat. They will discuss cities as havens of natural and cultural diversity, asserting that they may hold the key to sustainable development in the 21st Century. One anticipated outcome of the meeting is the creation of a partnership between these cities to pool experience and expertise on a long-term, regular basis. And under consideration will be the usefulness of sustainable development tools, such as UNESCO’s ‘biosphere reserve’ concept, already applied for over 30 years in 440 sites in 97 countries. For further information, CLICK HERE.
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