Highlights and images for 12 February 2020

Summary

Participants of the Children and Youth Roundtable pose with Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the UN’s 75th Anniversary.

WUF10 continued with two dialogues in the morning, including one on Urban Planning and Heritage Preservation – Regeneration, during which UN-Habitat Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Sharif stressed the importance of preserving heritage sites and buildings in cities, saying “once it is lost, it will only be retrieved at great cost.” Another dialogue focused on Partnerships and Initiatives Supporting Culture and Innovation in Cities, during which panelists called for implementing cost-effective mobility solutions for millions of urban dwellers in the global South and promoting social entrepreneur ecosystems and economic development to “uplift people and the planet.”In the afternoon, three roundtables convened, including one for children and youth representatives from different continents to express views on sustainable urban development. They circulated a petition calling for the Executive Director of UN-Habitat and the Deputy Executive Director of UN Environment Programme (UNEP) to declare a climate emergency, and urged the UN to stop organizing “tokenistic” youth summits, and instead ensure youth have a seat at a table. In a roundtable for traditional authorities, panelists underscored that millennia-old, culturally embedded traditional institutions cannot be destroyed by modern legal decisions, and discussed how traditional authorities and governments can have mutually beneficial relationships.Side events and special sessions continued into the evening, including a session on Affordable Housing Innovation to Foster Cities' Culture and Diversity, which heard interventions from a range of governments, international and regional organizations, and private sector representatives on, among others, efforts to reduce the cost of housing through data centralization and reducing delays in housing provision through e-governance and reduced bureaucracy.

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Dialogue 5: Urban Planning and Heritage Preservation - Regeneration

The panel (L-R): Moderator Dena Assaf; Jyoti Hosagrahar, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); Arbjan Mazniku, Deputy Mayor of Tirana, Albania; Shatha Al Mulla, Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development, United Arab Emirates (UAE); Cameron Rashti, Aga Khan Trust for Culture; Milena Ivković, International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP); Inés Samudio, Minister of Housing and Land Management, Panama

Moderator Dena Assaf

Inés Samudio, Minister of Housing and Land Management, Panama

Milena Ivković, ISOCARP

Shatha Al Mulla, UAE

Cameron Rashti, Aga Khan Trust for Culture

Arbjan Mazniku, Deputy Mayor of Tirana, Albania

Jyoti Hosagrahar, UNESCO

Time keeping during the dialogues

Alaina Beverly, University of Chicago

Ahmed Eiweida, World Bank

Dwinita Larasati, Indonesia Creative Cities Network

Patrick Domingos Tembwa, REALL

Participants pose questions and listen to the discussion.

Dialogue 6: Partnerships and Initiatives Supporting Culture and Innovation in Cities

Moderator Jason Pomeroy

Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General, UN Conference on Trade and Development

Maruxa Cardama, Secretary General, Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport

Siraj Sait, Noon Centre for Equality and Diversity

Participants listen to the discussion.

The second panel (L-R): Tulio Vazquez López, Inter-American Housing Union; Irina Ilina, Higher School of Economics University; Vladimir Bataev, Zaz Ventures; Marcela Villarreal, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO); moderator Jason Pomeroy