Building Climate Resilience in the Urban Poor

Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities

Description

A short video produced by UN-HABITAT calling for increased action to improve the climate resilience of the urban poor. The video includes images from poor communities acrosss the world and voice overs from various experts form UN-HABITAT, Slum/Shack Dwellers International, University of Twente, AECOM and IIED. 

Subject

Urban poverty and climate resilience.

Period30 Jun 2019

Media contributions

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Media contributions

  • TitleUN Habitat: Building Climate Resilience in the Urban Poor
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletUN-HABITAT Youtube
    Media typeWeb
    Duration/Length/Size5m29s
    Country/TerritoryNetherlands
    Date30/06/19
    DescriptionVideo presented by UN-Habitat on 30 June 2019 at the 'Infrastructure, Cities and Local Action’ session at the Abu Dhabi Climate Meeting.
    It outlines 8 elements to increase climate resilience - the 2023 target is 150M people/140 hotspot cities/50 countries.

    The #ADClimateMeeting featured over 1750 people from 162 countries who met to prepare for the United Nations #ClimateAction Summit in September 2019.
    Producer/AuthorUN-HABITAT
    URLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ba7jCVBD-8&t=26s
    PersonsRichard Sliuzas