Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 73 views

    SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

    Uploaded by

    King Hin LAU [09T2]
    SDG 11 aims to make cities more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive by 2030. It focuses on improving access to housing, transportation, and basic services, while also reducing pollution and the environmental impact of urban areas. The targets include ensuring access to affordable housing and upgrading slums, providing sustainable transportation systems, and enhancing participatory urban planning to manage cities' growth. Since over half the world's population lives in cities, achieving SDG 11 is important to address issues like poverty, climate change, and environmental degradation.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content

    SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

    Uploaded by

    King Hin LAU [09T2]
    73 views1 page
    SDG 11 aims to make cities more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive by 2030. It focuses on improving access to housing, transportation, and basic services, while also reducing pollution and the environmental impact of urban areas. The targets include ensuring access to affordable housing and upgrading slums, providing sustainable transportation systems, and enhancing participatory urban planning to manage cities' growth. Since over half the world's population lives in cities, achieving SDG 11 is important to address issues like poverty, climate change, and environmental degradation.

    Original Description:

    A infographic on SDG 11

    Original Title

    SDG 11_ Sustainable Cities and Communities

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    SDG 11 aims to make cities more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive by 2030. It focuses on improving access to housing, transportation, and basic services, while also reducing pollution and the environmental impact of urban areas. The targets include ensuring access to affordable housing and upgrading slums, providing sustainable transportation systems, and enhancing participatory urban planning to manage cities' growth. Since over half the world's population lives in cities, achieving SDG 11 is important to address issues like poverty, climate change, and environmental degradation.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    Download as pdf or txt
    73 views1 page

    SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

    Uploaded by

    King Hin LAU [09T2]
    SDG 11 aims to make cities more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive by 2030. It focuses on improving access to housing, transportation, and basic services, while also reducing pollution and the environmental impact of urban areas. The targets include ensuring access to affordable housing and upgrading slums, providing sustainable transportation systems, and enhancing participatory urban planning to manage cities' growth. Since over half the world's population lives in cities, achieving SDG 11 is important to address issues like poverty, climate change, and environmental degradation.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 1

    SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

    What is SDG 11?

    The Sustainable Development Goals were laid down


    in 2015 by the UN General Assembly for 2030 to
    ensure a safe living enviroment for future
    generations and to prevent major issues like global
    warming, climate change and poverty. Sustainable
    Development Goal 11 is Sustainable Cities and
    Communities.

    What does SDG 11 hope to acheive?


    Why are cities so important?

    Since more than 50% of the world's population live in cities Cities are very important because nearly half of humanity are
    now and more than two-thirds of humanity, 6.5 billion living in cities right now! Cities are centres for economic growth
    people will be living in cities by 2050, we need to make and cities generate more than 80% of the global GDP, that's
    cities safer, more resilient and sustainable. SDG 11 hopes almost 60.11 trillion US dollars! Although cities only occupy
    to accomplish this by improving living standards in cities. around 3% of the world's land, they account for 60-80% of
    Since extreme poverty is also a prominent problem in energy consumption and 75% of carbon emissions. That is why
    urban areas. SDG 11 hopes to improve this by ensuring if we want to reduce the rate of global warming and climate
    access for all to safe and affordable housing and to change, we need to act on cities first, to make the safe
    upgrading slum settlements. sustainable and resilient so that cities can continue to flourish
    without any hinderance and also minimize the enviormental
    impact on Earth.

    Main Targets of SDG 11

    1. By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums
    2. By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road
    safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations,
    women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons
    3. Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage
    4. By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable
    human settlement planning and management in all countrie
    5. By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease
    the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water-related
    disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations
    6. By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air
    quality and municipal and other waste management
    7. By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for
    women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities
    8. Support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by
    strengthening national and regional development planning
    9. By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated
    policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to
    disasters, and develop and implement, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030,
    holistic disaster risk management at all levels
    10. Support least developed countries, including through financial and technical assistance, in building sustainable and
    resilient buildings utilizing local materials

    You might also like