{"id":6267,"date":"2019-10-31T08:35:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T05:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6267"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","slug":"spotlight-on-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/31\/spotlight-on-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By UN\nEnvironment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year\u2019s theme for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/citiesday\/\">World Cities Day<\/a>&nbsp;on\n31 October is \u201cChanging the world: innovations and better life for future\ngenerations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over\nhalf the world\u2019s people live in cities. As more and more people move into\ncities from rural areas a number of environmental and social challenges arise,\nincluding overcrowding in slum areas, poor sanitation and air pollution.\nHowever, urbanization can also present great opportunities and is a critical\ntool for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development if done right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cities have always been drivers and incubators of innovation. It is often said that the battle for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals will be won or lost in cities. For this to happen, cities will have to continue to drive innovation to achieve a lasting impact in communities and to ensure that \u201cno one and no place\u201d is left behind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/spotlight-cities\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment This year\u2019s theme for&nbsp;World Cities Day&nbsp;on 31 October is \u201cChanging the world: innovations and better life for future generations.\u201d Over half the world\u2019s people live in cities.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}