IMPACT INVESTMENTS - SDG CITIES

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We are honoured to invite you to the First Edition of the “SDG Cities Global Conference” co-organized by UN-Habitat, the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, with the Global Sustainability Index Institute. 

The SDG Cities Global Conference takes place virtually from 29 October to 31 October, as one of the Urban October events for 2021.  

The event will have simultaneous interpretation in English, Chinese, French and Spanish. Please find attached the conference Agenda (English), and links to Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish Agendas.

To register for the Conference, please click:

• Registration for formal events: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G3-T6gfqTIGJiBL_LbZkRw
• Registration for side event: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hX48EHBhRzuyJJHQfGdXdg

Shanghai, China, 4 November 2021 –The first Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Cities Conference co-hosted by UN-Habitat and the Municipality of Shanghai aimed at supporting 1000 cities become economically, socially and environmentally sustainable by 2030, announced seven new pilot projects.

Conference participants including international and local leaders, academics, business leaders, investors and civil society activists discussed how to make cities engines of sustainable development and improve life for their residents through data analysis, strategic planning, institutional capacity development, impact project development and financing.

New pilot SDG Cities were announced. They included Shanghai; La Paz, Bolivia; Vitoria Gasteiz, Basque, Spain; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; Penang Bay, Malaysia; Menzel Ennour in Tunisia; and Kuwait City. They will be joined by ten more by the end of the year and will test an array of SDG Cities digital tools being availed by UN-Habitat and partners in areas of urban data, institutional capacity assessment and development and project preparation and financing.