Events

The resumed second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly will be held from 29 to 30 May 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya. As the governance body of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the United Nations Habitat Assembly convenes every four years. It is the highest global decision-making body on sustainable urbanization and human settlements. The 193 UN Member States cast the votes, while participants include non-Member States, other UN bodies and specialized agencies, as well as intergovernmental organizations, civil society, private sector, academia and research institutions, women, youth and children, and grassroots organizations.

High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) is the central United Nations platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the global level. The theme will be "Accelerating the recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels”. The HLPF in 2023 will review in-depth SDGs 6, 7, 9, 11 and 17. It will be a pre-summit for preparing the SDG Summit to be held in September 2023.

World Cities Day brings Urban October to an end on 31 October each year and was first celebrated in 2014. As with World Habitat Day, a global observance is held in a different city each year and the day focuses on a specific theme. This year’s global observance is planned to take place on 31 October 2022 under the theme Act Local to Go Global. We want to bring different partners and diverse stakeholders together to share their experiences and approaches to local action, what local action worked and what is needed to empower local and regional governments to create greener, more equitable and sustainable cities.

In the history of the World Energy Council, the Congress has been staged in over 20 cities across the world and the 25th World Energy Congress will take place in St Petersburg on 24–27 October 2022.

UCLG World Congress is held every three years and is the largest event bringing together 1,000 city leaders from about 140 countries. More information about the programme will be available in the coming months.

The World Planning Congress of City and Regional Planners in Brussels. The congress will be organised from 3 to 7 October 2022 and will include technical tours, plenary sessions, workshops, walks and networking events.

For more information, please visit https://isocarp.org/58th-wpc-brussels-2022/
 

The In Focus: SDG 11 event is a platform for a refreshing dialogue on how cities and their networks as well as relevant organizations and stakeholders address global challenges that are traditionally discussed by States in multilateral fora. The In Focus: SDG 11 aims at better linking intergovernmental debates on issues related to SDG11 with what cities and their networks, and other stakeholders are doing on the ground. The event has been organized each year by UNECE since 2018 and the Geneva Cities Hub has partnered with UNECE on this event since 2019.