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This analytical report includes some of the lessons learned by UN-Habitat over the years in situation of post-natural disaster situations. In particular it stresses the necessity to incorporate proper long-term planning for sustainable development with the best protection against repeat disasters from the outset – indeed from the moment the humanitarian rescue operation begins.

This document consists of four pages of relevant references concerning the Cities and Climate Change Initiative.

This activity report presents the details of the winner of the Habitat Business award for 2009: China Merchants Property Development Co. This company impressed the jury and was awarded the Habitat Business award in 2009 for its development of “The Hills” project to reduce carbon emissions and environment pollution, which is described as “a green, creative and international community.”

In this statement Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, talks about the cooperation between UCLG (United Cities and Local Governments) and UNHABITAT on decentralization policies and the linkages between climate change and urbanization.

This document presents a statement by Mrs. Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Under Secretary General and Executive Director of UNHABITAT, at the High-Level Segment of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The Executive Director outlines how to tackle climate change issues within a broader framework of sustainable housing and urban development.

In this statement Brian Williams of the UNHABITAT Chief Energy and Transport Section explains the interlinkages between urbanisation and climate change and outlines a number of measures to be taken, including stricter energy efficiency standards in fuel consumption from transport; energy efficiency in building construction and use; as well as improving global standards for appliance manufacturing and importation.

This is a statement by Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT at the United Nations High-Level Event on Climate Change “The Future in our Hands: Addressing the Leadership Challenge of Climate Change”, in which she highlights how UN-HABITAT is supporting national and local authorities in their efforts to cope with the impacts of climate change.

This document presents a statement by Mrs Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN-HABITAT. The Director addresses the issue of urban growth and its consequences for climate change. Today half of humanity lives in cities and it is projected that by 2030 that figure will rise to two-thirds. The cities growing fastest are those of the developing world, and the fastest growing neighbourhoods are the slums. Local solutions and local funding are needed in order to fight poverty and offset global disasters.

This document includes a statement by Inga Klevby, Deputy Executive Director of UN-HABITAT. The Director discusses climate change and its negative consequences, touching especially poor people living in developing countries big cities. In fact this is an age of unprecedented, rapid, irreversible urbanisation.

This document reports the statement of Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT at 15th Session of UN Commission on Sustainable Development. Mrs. Tibaijuka highlights the close relation between environment conservation and human security and presents UN-HABITAT’s work in the area of energy for sustainable development and combating Climate Change.

Despite their potential, censuses have not been sufficiently exploited as key data source for environmental studies and climate change analysis. This slide presenation presents an overview of the potential of census data, provides some examples of the use of census data in particular countries, and highlights the potential of such data to provide evidence in still unexplored areas.

This slide presentation reviews the linkage between climate change and population growth. “Population” effects on emissions are determined by consumption patterns of different countries and social groups. Therefore the document highlights that demographic processes necessitate more explicit consideration and discusses their implications for policy.

This analytical report is the Youth Supplement to the UNFPA report “State of the World population 2009”. The publication looks at 7 stories from young people around the world who have experienced, or live in the midst of, circumstances that are likely to increase in frequency and force, when impacts of climate change arrive broadly. The stories in this publication are examples of what life will bring to millions more young people in the future, if the world fails to take action in order to adapt to and mitigate climate change, and reduce carbon emissions.

This analytical report addresses the challenges and the potential related to urbanization. For the first time in history, more than half its human population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas. Many of the new urbanites will be poor. Yet no country in the industrial age has ever achieved significant economic growth without urbanization. Cities concentrate poverty, but they also represent the best hope of escaping it. The future of cities in developing countries, the future of humanity itself, all depend very much on decisions made now in preparation for this growth.

This analytical report analyses the linkage among population dynamics, greenhouse gases and climate change. The whole world has been talking about carbon credits, carbon trading and emissions targets. But not enough has been said about the people whose activities contribute to those emissions or about those who will be most affected by climate change, especially women. The climate-change debate needs to be reframed, putting people at the centre. Unless climate policies take people into account, they will fail to mitigate climate change or to shield vulnerable populations from the potentially disastrous impacts.

This manual consists of a comprehensive resource kit on gender, population and climate change developed by UNFPA and WEDO. It shows how gender equality can reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts and how women are uniquely positioned to help curb the harmful consequences of a changing climate.

This document discusses the linkage between climate change, environmental concerns and population dynamics. Reduced to essentials, climate change is ultimately produced by the pressures placed on the Earth’s ecosystem by humankind’s development efforts, especially over the last half-century. This note focuses on the contribution of a population-based development agency to better understanding and more effective responses to the threat of climate change.

This is a Statement by Safiye Çagar, Director of the Information and External Relations Division of the United Nations Population Fund delivered on 2 October 2008 at the EuroNGO’s 2008 Annual Conference. He highlights that while population growth may exacerbate the environmental and food crises, the causes are much more complex, including consumption levels, technology, trade, economic and agricultural policies, as well as values and aspirations.

In this press release UNFPA exhorts G-8 leaders to consider seriously population issues when it deliberates on food security, climate change and maternal health.

This analytical report presents a review of the interaction between urban density, climate change, and sea-level rise. The paper has a focus on two main themes: the interaction between urban density and the generation of greenhouse gases and how this affects mitigation strategies; and the consequences of climate change on urban settlements of varying population densities and how this affects adaptation strategies.