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CIFAL Shanghai hosted the XII Smart City Public Lecture “Smart City and Food Safety”
2 March 2015, Shanghai, China – CIFAL Shanghai hosted the XII Smart City Public Lecture “Smart City and Food Safety” at Shanghai Sciences Hall on 4 February 2015. This one-day lecture focused on the informatization of food safety management, bringing together 69 participants from different industries.
This event is part of a series of Smart City Public Lectures aimed at raising awareness about smart city development. The series of lectures serve as a unique platform to exchange ideas and…
17 December, Geneva, Switzerland – A landmark report providing the first detailed account of the devastating damage to the World Heritage Property of the Ancient City of Aleppo in the wake of years of armed conflict has been published by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and UNESCO.
The Ancient City of Aleppo is one of six Syrian World Heritage sites added to UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger in 2013. Five Years of Conflict: The State of Cultural Heritage in the Ancient City of Aleppo draws on satellite imagery assessment of a total of...
18 October 2012, Geneva, Switzerland - With the theme on “Building the Smart City and Industrial Development for Sustainable Urbanization”, Global City Informatization Forum 2012 will be held on Monday, 29 October 2012 in Shanghai, China.
The Global City Informatization Forum 2012 is organized by Shanghai Smart City Promotion Center, jointly hosted by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), United…
The role of road safety in achieving sustainable cities
18 October 2016. Quito, Ecuador. Globally, 1.24 million people die on the roads as pedestrians, motorists, passengers, public transport users or commercial vehicle drivers. As urban areas flourish and become rampantly inhabited around the world, by people and vehicles, road safety must be a critical element for consideration when planning for sustainability.
UNITAR jointly with the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety hosted the session titled “the role…
Workshop on Airport Cities and Competitiveness in Central America
31 March – 1 April 2016, San Salvador, El Salvador – UNITAR’s affiliated training centre in San Salvador (CIFAL El Salvador) hosted the workshop “Promoting Airport Cities for Competitiveness and Economic Development,” which aimed at providing a venue for the exchange of best practices on how to transform airports located in world-class airport cities that generate economic development and growth. The workshop took place from 31 March – 1 April 2016 and was jointly organized by CIFAL El Salvador and the…
9-10 July, Antwerp, Belgium – With a third of the world’s population migrating from villages to cities in the 21st Century, local leaders must be at the forefront of incorporating diversity into all aspects of city planning. As part of its work in the area of human mobility, UNITAR is hosting its first Expert Meeting in the City of Antwerp to define the parameters of its novel “Learning Platform on Human Mobility: Capacity Development for Local Leaders”.
A global, face2face training platform for local leaders, UNITAR’s Learning Platform on Human Mobility will broach…
UNITAR Hosts Webinar: Promoting Dialogue on Inclusive Cities
13 June 2016, Quito, Ecuador - UNITAR, jointly with the University of Melbourne, Australia and the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing of Ecuador hosted on 13 June a webinar titled “Inclusive Cities and the New Urban Agenda”.
The main objective of the webinar was to provide an overview of the concept of Inclusive Cities and to present examples of specific projects worldwide that promote social inclusive cities. Dr. Carolyn Whitzman, Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia…
Building Capacity to Develop and Implement Cities Resilience Action Plans
A public forum “Capacity Development for Implementing Cities Resilience Action Plans” to be held in the 2015 World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) on 16 March 2015.
27 February 2015, Geneva, Switzerland - Urban risk is continually increasing. Urbanization is taking place at an unprecedented rate. By 2030 more than 60% of the world’s population is expected to live in cities, with record concentrations in large urban conglomerations and megacities in the developing world. …
CIFAL Shanghai organizes XVI Smart City Public Lecture
13 July 2015, Shanghai, China – CIFAL Shanghai hosted the 16th Smart City Public Lecture: “Smart Education: Status Quo and the Future”, in partnership with Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization and Shanghai Association of Sciences and Technology. The event, held on 1 July 2015, brought together 47 participants from academia, public and private sectors, government, and others.
The objective of this lecture was to raise awareness on how through smart education global education resources can be…
UNITAR took part in the Second Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, a large event gathering in Geneva from 16 to 19 June the global disaster community of stakeholders.
The following is the transcript of the formal statement delivered to the plenary session of the Global Platform.
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is very pleased to take part in this important event. The Institute considers Disaster Risk Reduction as a central set of principles and guidelines of great importance in all the main goals of the global…