The 8th IRF Regional Conference on “Road Infrastructure for Safe Mobility” to be held at India Expo Centre, Greater Noida, Delhi NCR, during 3-5 October 2013. The objective of the eighth conference in this series is to seek appropriate solutions specifically for road infrastructure developments, where both mobility and safety objectives are to be carefully balanced.
In celebration of the World Habitat Day 2013, the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat), the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization, the Center for Resilient Design at New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the American Institute Architects New York join to host a high-level discussion, which will cover key developments in the area of resilient design. In the years leading to the HABITAT III Conference, and the post 2015 development agenda solutions will be sought for the challenges, in an era of ever increasing urbanization and disasters that impact urban areas.
It is about transporting people, not about vehicles. By understanding what people need and how they want their cities to look and feel, it translates to happier city-dwellers by pairing transport planning and urban development to deliver a sustainable urban environment.
United Nations Human Settlement Program (UN-HABITAT) launches its biannual flagship report, the Global Report on Human Settlements 2013
The UN Habitat 2013 Global Report on Human Settlements (GRHS) focuses on sustainable urban mobility. Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility puts forward a case for a conceptual leap on the issue of urban mobility. The purpose of ‘transportation’ and ‘mobility’ is to gain access to destinations, activities, services and goods.
The Global Report on Human Settlements will focus this year on “Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility". This landmark publication by UN-Habitat covers a broad range of urban mobility issues and aims to foster the debate about sustainable transport and its role in cities of the future. We look very much forward for you to you join this meeting of experts and discuss opportunities for cooperation to boost sustainable urban mobility.
The Global Report on Human Settlements will focus this year on “Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility". This landmark publication by UN-Habitat covers a broad range of urban mobility issues and aims to foster the debate about sustainable transport and its role in cities of the future. We look very much forward for you to you join this meeting of experts and discuss opportunities for cooperation to boost sustainable urban mobility.
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In Asian developing countries, rapid economic growth will cause drastic emission growth, which will become significant part of future global emissions. This symposium is aimed at discussing how to design long-term measures to develop low-carbon transport systems in Asia in a leap-frog manner and in a back-casting way, decoupling economic growth with CO2 emission increase. For the discussion, we invite international experts on low-carbon development of urban transport and inter-regional transport.
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The preparatory meeting of the 2nd Sustainable Transport Forum in Latin America (FTS-LAC) will be organized on October 29-30, 2013 in Santiago de Chile, hosted by United Nations Economic Commission for Latin American Countries.
Governance, Environment and Markets (GEM) Initiative at Yale and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) are organizing Rio+20 to 2015: A New Architecture for a Sustainable New World Conference on November 1-2, 2013.
The Forum of Asian Ministers of Transport will take place between 4-8 November, 2013 at United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok, Thailand.
The Forum composes of two segments: