Urban Breakfast: A Briefing on Habitat III
What is this once-every-20-year United Nations conference on cities all about?
June 20th, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With more than half the global population living in urban areas, cities have taken front and center stage for 21st century human activity.
Focusing on the increasingly evolving urban landscape will be the Habitat III conference that the United Nations General Assembly is convening this year in Quito, Ecuador, October 17–20. Building up to this, a zero draft of a "New Urban Agenda" to serve as a framework for policy implementation at the national and local level towards sustainable urban development in the next two decades was recently released early May.
The "Urban Breakfast: A Briefing on Habitat III" event at the National Press Club, jointly organized by the Habitat III Secretariat and the World Bank, in collaboration with the news organization Citiscope, is aimed at taking a big-picture look at Habitat III, its history and issues, helping media and opinion leaders in the DC community understand why Habitat III is important, get familiar with the terminology and issues around the event, and introduce experts in the urban area.
| EVENT: |
BRIEFING ON HABITAT III – What is this once-every-20-year United Nations conference on cities all about? |
| DATE: |
June 20, 2016 |
| TIME: |
9:00 a.m. (Breakfast available at 8:30 am) |
| VENUE: |
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| Holeman Room |
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To attend the Briefing, please RSVP here
For more information, please contact:
Habitat III Secretariat: Jenina Alli, +1-609-592-7372, [email protected]
World Bank: Kristyn Schrader-King, +1-202-458-2736, [email protected]
Program
| 8:30 am |
Breakfast |
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| 9:00 am |
Welcome |
Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Senior Director, Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice, World Bank |
| 9:10 am |
Cities: 21st century challenges |
Genie Birch, co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research, Penn IUR, at the University of Pennsylvania, and Chair of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme's World Urban Campaign |
Lay out reasons as to why the media/policy makers should be interested in Habitat III
| 9:20 am |
The New Urban Agenda |
Ana Moreno, Habitat III Secretariat Coordinator |
Explain the New Urban Agenda: what it is, what it means
| 9:35 |
Covering Habitat |
Carey Biron, Habitat Editor, Citiscope |
Tips from a reporter
| 9:45 |
What's next? |
Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, World Bank and |
| Ana Moreno, Habitat III Secretariat |
Outline agendas for upcoming milestones and conference call-ins
| 9:55 |
Q&A |
Neal Peirce, Editor-in-Chief, Citiscope |
SOURCE World Bank; Habitat III Secretariat; Citiscope
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