Ensuring sustainable development in present and future societies is an urgent challenge and requires joint efforts on different governance levels: national, local and international, as well as the involvement of different stakeholders: the public and private sector, knowledge institutions, and citizens themselves. This collective accomplishment is possible only if the Sustainability Development Goals are translated into coordinated action at local levels.

We chose to tackle the topic of localisation of SDGs in our October newsletter because cities have a special role to play in fulfilling the SDGs. This is specifically reflected in Goal number 11: “Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable”.

Read this month’s newsletter to find out more and stay tuned for… the next episode of our podcast Urban Voices.  In the second episode of the podcast, Adela Hankus will chat with EUKN’s Policy and Project Officer, Federica Risi, about her experience with localising the SDGs in the context of nature-based-solutions and the CONEXUS project.

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The National Impact of the Urban Agenda for the EU: 2016-2019...

The National Impact of the Urb...

The National Impact of the Urban Agenda for the EU: 2016-2019

Analysing developments in the Urban Agenda for the EU’s Partnerships and action plans, to assess their impact on governance structures and urban policies within Member States.

Urban Voices

Martha Fajardo on… what we can learn from nature-based ancestral knowledge...

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Martha Fajardo on… what we can learn from nature-based ancestral knowledge systems in Latin America

Martha Fajardo shares a Latin American take on preserving cultural and landscape diversity, stressing the need to adopt a less utilitarian outlook on nature, pursuing a planetary health perspective.

Urban Voices

Expert perspectives on… urban resilience in the face of pandemics...

Expert perspectives on… ...

Expert perspectives on… urban resilience in the face of pandemics

The EUKN spoke to four urban experts - Simin Davoudi, Esteban León, Chiara Tomaselli and Martin Grisel - about their view on urban resilience in the face of pandemics.