Cities News Archives

2011

December

• NEW WEBSITE IS HERE!!

June

• The Transformation of Chocolatao

March

• Milwaukee wins IBM award and support to take urban aquaculture across the world

February

• Milwaukee Wins U.S Water Prize

January

• “The Intelligent Cities Simulator” - Accenture joins forces with the Global Compact Cities Programme

2010

July

• State of Australian Cities Report

June

• Cities Programme broadens reach to engage an additional 28 cities

May

• Inaugural Meeting of the UN Global Compact Network Australia

• Cities Programme representative presents at UN Global Compact Business Symposium in Chicago

March

• RMIT planning expert comments on Melbourne’s future

• Launch of ‘Sustainable Cities UN Global Compact Cities Programme, Volume 1’

2009

December

• Training Opportunity at World Urban Forum, Rio de Janeiro, March 2010

• Cities Programme presenting in all corners of the globe

November

• Democratic Governance in Porto Alegre, BRAZIL

September

• New publications highlighting need for climate action, New York

August

• International Secretarait visits The City of Jamshedpur

July

• New from the International Secretariat

May

• ‘U.N. names Milwaukee a water technology hub.’ Journal Sentinel article dated 27 April 2009

April

• City of Milwaukee set to be our newest member city.

February

• Victorian Bushfire Disaster - Thank You For Your Support.

January

• Stay in touch with BC3, San Francisco

• Considerations and ongoing progress of social inclusion of the Chocolato slum.

• Le Havre submits project update on their Sustainable Tourism initiative

2008

November

• Accounting for Sustainability - Briefing Paper 1

October

• International Secretariat - November travels

• RMIT University research paper behind The Melbourne Model.

• International Secretariat to present at the International Metropolis Congress, Sydney

May

• Asker, Norway set to fight corruption

• Berlin Improving Immigrants Access to Health Care

• 7th International Conference on Urban Health - Call for Abstracts

February

• New UN think tank on global ‘mega cities’

• RMIT leads United Nations Cities Program

• JUSCO Water Conservation and Rainwater Harvesting Practices

• Active Health

• Jinan Traffic Safety Report 2007

2007

November

• Melbourne announces new Project

October

• Urban Medicine and Metropolitan Health Conference

• Mongolian Association of Urban Centres (MAUC) Strategic Plan

• BC3 Climate Change Launch

• Environmental Street Project Background Paper

• World Cities Conference on Cities Development

• Cities for development, democracy and peace in Europe

2006

December

• Jinan City implements ‘The United Nations Traffic Safety Pilot City’