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We are in a race against time to adapt to a rapidly changing climate and protect the most vulnerable
Amina J Mohammed
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Deputy Secretary General, United Nations Both climate change & COVID-19 have shown us the risks of an unthinking & rapacious approach to nature and its resources
Hoesung Lee
Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world. Education is the only solution
Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani activist for female education Making the cities water secure, providing tap water for drinking using new technology is the aim of Jal Jeevan Mission-Urban
Durga Shanker Mishra
Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, GoI
Ram Nath Kovind President of India @rashtrapatibhvn
I urge upon the countrymen to utilise this lifeline and get vaccinated as per guidelines. Your health opens the way for your advancement
MoRTH Government of India @MORTHIndia
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Manish Sisodia Deputy CM of Delhi @msisodia
MoRTH henceforth will look after the development of Ropeways & Alternate Mobility Solutions. The move is expected to give a boost to the sector, by setting up a regulatory regime, and facilitating research and new technology to come into this sector
It’s a matter of pride for Delhi that our govt schools have ranked top in the country in NITI Aayog’s NAS report attributing landmark transformation of the govt school system
SWITCH-Asia @switchasia
Single-use or disposable items are products and packaging that we throw after only one use. These items are used for only minutes but their impact on our environment can last thousands of years. Sustainable alternatives exist
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Volume 6, Issue 10 February 2021 13 City Image 46 Urban Agenda
Girl Power Project
With the ultimate goal of capacitating CSOs and empowering women and girls through social entrepreneurship, the Girl Power Project geared towards the new year of 2021, and saw significant development in different domains of project management, marketing, CSO outreach and stakeholder management
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24 Cities need to balance development, resource utilisation, sustainability targets responsibly
Cities are at the core of the government’s push for infrastructure development, Foreign Direct Investment for supporting Make in India, and expedite their efforts to make India a USD 5-trillion economy. Simultaneously, cities are also looked up to as the major players in achieving climate agenda, Sustainable Development Goals, and New Urban Agenda’s targets, among many other international objectives. There is a need to balance building a prosperous nation and a sustainable ecosystem of urban spaces. Cities will have to up their game and make their systems more efficient, agile, and well-financed to achieve all objectives at a time. For this, the outreach of the central governments to international and national agencies must be in coordination with local governments to augment the desired outcomes
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28 All cogs of the wheel need to work together
The recent changing priorities of cities because of the Pandemic, and before that, because of looming dangers of climate change is bringing transformation in urban management worldwide. The meaningful transformation needs collective responsibility, shared agendas, and joint efforts of all tiers of governments in the region and collaboration with associations elsewhere for achieving the common agenda of our urban spaces
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30 LEssoNs from CItIEs
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34 Economy is a subsystem of the biosphere, not the opposite! 36 Initiating coordinated global urban development 38 Urban spaces await sustainable mobility 40 Economic revival of cities post-pandemic 42 Cities: Creator, victim and solution to climate change
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44 Building smarter cities with resilient infrastructure
