Therefore we must leverage sustainable urbanization as a transformative force for the COVID-19 building back better effort - a force that can accelerate progress towards a healthier, greener, safer, and more inclusive and resilient future set out in the ‘New Kuwait Vision 2035’ and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In the next 20 years, about 70% of the world’s population will be living in cities. But population density does not necessarily correlate with high incidence of the pandemic, but poverty and deprivation, poor planning, inadequate infrastructure and weak governance structures do.ĭespite being hard hit by this pandemic, cities will continue to be engines of growth and opportunities, accounting for more than 80% of global GDP.
Nearly 90% of all cases and epicentres of the pandemic across countries are in cities. I want to thank the Government of Kuwait for their partnership and the United Nations in Kuwait for their invitation.ĬOVID-19 has been largely an urban crisis. It is my pleasure to be here with you today for a constructive dialogue and exchange of ideas towards building a sustainable urbanization based on the Kuwait Vision 2035, as part of the UN75 TALK series. Tarek El-Skeikh, UN Resident Coordinator in Kuwait, Maimunah Sharif, UN-Habitat Executive Director, and Khaled Mahdi, Secretary General for the Supreme Council for Planning and Development, Read the resources on e learning and areas ‐learning and areas to find the answers.Distinguished partners and representatives of the Government of Kuwait and Kuwait Institutions, Please do not email me to ask the answers to the questions. Download Solutions for Quiz 2 - Cities of the World | URP 3001 and more Urbanization Quizzes in PDF only on Docsity!QUIZ 2 Sample questions/study guide Study up to the Chinese lecture.
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