Eng. Nadine Chahine Bitar
Founder – Place Making
In resolution 66/207 and in line with the bi-decennial cycle (1976, 1996 and 2016), the United Nations General Assembly decided on the Habitat III Conference to reinvigorate the global commitment to sustainable urbanization, to focus on the implementation of a “New Urban Agenda”, building on the Habitat Agenda of Istanbul in 1996.The Habitat III tackles in particular one of the new global Sustainable Development Goals announced on the 25th September 2015 when the Heads of State and Government and High Representatives, met at the United Nations Headquarters in New York as the Organization celebrates its seventieth anniversary. The agenda 2030, 17 Sustainable development goals span many sectors ranging from education to green economy, climate change to biodiversity, poverty alleviation to science and research.Read article
