New Delhi: The United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, also known as Habitat III, will be taking place in Quito, Ecuador, from Monday to Thursday. Even though the New Urban Agenda is not a legally binding document, it seeks to lay down a shared vision that will inform how urban development takes place across the world. Habitat III takes place at a time when the global urban population has been pegged at 54.5%. The conference ended with the adoption of the Habitat agenda, also known as the Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements. The participants at Habitat III will raise these critical issues over the next four days, in addition to working out the intricacies of implementing a complex urban agenda over various scales of governance.

Source: Mint October 17, 2016 08:37 UTC