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11th ITU Symposium on ICT, Environment and Climate Change
21st of April 2016
Session 4: Achieving Environmental Sustainability Goals
Speaker: Domenica Carriero
Title of presentation: Promoting climate change mitigation in cities in the UNECE region
Presentation’s abstract:
The UNECE inter-governmental Committee on Housing and Land Management includes 56
member States and it is mandated to work on sustainable housing, smart sustainable urban
development and land administration and governance. SDGs 11 and 13 are the reference frame
for its work in particular on smart sustainable cities and energy efficiency in buildings. The work
in these two areas will be presented as well as the content of the reference document, the
Geneva UN Charter on Sustainable Housing.