“We are at the point where we need to rethink the New Urban Agenda for the next 10 years,” Anacláudia Rossbach, Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) told AZERTAC.

“We expect to promote systematic changes: the ways our cities, our policies, have been designed. They have not worked in the past. We are facing, as I mentioned before, a global housing crisis. We have cities that are segregated, that are not prone and resilient to disasters. So, all of that needs to incorporate in all the means of work that UN-Habitat has being institutional development, policy design, building capacities, but also technical assistance, because we cannot wait. We need to build, rebuild the systems. We need to strengthen our capacities and institutions, but we need to act now,” she noted.

“From Azerbaijan, we can expect a lot of experiences to be shared during the World Urban Forum, and we hope to keep working there in projects that will support cities to be human-centric and nature-centric. I think the key message is, let us understand the importance of cities for our planet. Cities that work for the citizens will also work for the planet, and let's understand how important it is to be active in the process of promoting human and nature focused urban planning processes,” UN-Habitat Executive Director added.

 

AZERTAC

2026, February 6