본연설은 2024년 2월에 세계 정부 회의에서 진행된 유엔 개발계획 총재인 Achim Steiner의 연설입니다. 글로벌 도시화에 있어 UNDP의 역할 및 노력에 대한 내용입니다.
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[Glossary]
1. World Government Summit: 세계 정부 정상 회의
2. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): 유엔개발계획(UNDP)
3. Climate Promise: 기후 약속
4. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs): 국가 온실가스 감축목표(NDC)
5. UNDP Accelerator Labs: 음차(UNDP 엑셀러레이터 랩스)
6. GeoAI platform: 음차
[Script]
Excellencies, Ladies, and Gentlemen,
It is a privilege to be here in Dubai to join the World Government Summit.
This timely event challenges us to embrace the concept of foresight and think about how we can better help foster urban spaces that are dynamic, equitable, and sustainable.
It comes at a moment when violent conflicts are at their highest levels since 1945, and an accelerating climate emergency is changing lives and livelihoods irrevocably.
Cities are also a stark indicator of how far we still have to go if we are to eradicate poverty by the end of this decade.
Remarkably, as rapid urbanization continues, some 1.1 billion people globally currently live in slums or slum-like conditions.
Yet the power of new technologies – everything from A.I. to machine learning – combined with human ingenuity, offers the potential to drive step change in our collective efforts to build a greener, more sustainable, and more inclusive future for all.
In that respect, I would like to outline three ‘doors’ to the future:
First, we must heed the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure that cities are better prepared for the next crisis.
It is clear that countries and cities that invested in inclusive innovation and digital public infrastructure were better prepared to extend vital support to communities during the crisis.
At the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), we keenly recognize the central role of local governance in laying the foundations for resilient recoveries and preparedness for these future risks.
For instance, in Türkiye, where UNDP is supporting local authorities not only to address the immediate service needs of host communities and refugees but also to modernize urban planning.
A new facility in the city will be able to process 100,000 tons of solid waste per year.
Indeed, our support to cities is also cognizant of the fact that development cannot wait until a conflict or crisis is over.
In Ukraine, we are supporting thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises – the engines of local economies – to keep operating in spite of the war.
That includes our support to rebuild the high-voltage energy grid. This is critical for the uninterrupted supply of electricity, water, and heating to businesses.
Second, climate change is the defining challenge of our time -- requiring new forms of leadership, political will, and investment at the city and local levels.
As part of these efforts to drive change, UNDP’s Climate Promise is supporting over 120 countries to implement their climate pledges, or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
Fifty-four of these NDCs feature aspects that now focus on urban, sub-national, or local climate action.
Driving a just energy transition and decarbonizing transport will be pivotal, and cities can learn from other cities in this regard.
Third, cities represent the epicenter of innovation and creativity, and there is a need to support community-based innovators within them.
The UN is putting increased emphasis on this bottom-up development approach, including via the groundbreaking UNDP Accelerator Labs network.
To date, it has already surfaced 6,000 southern-led development solutions that can drive progress across all 17 SDGs.
Consider the work of our Lab in India, which helped to co-create the GeoAI platform, which uses A.I. and satellite imagery to detect hotspots of air pollution and assists state authorities in dramatically reducing it.
In many ways, we at the Labs are just scratching the surface of the potential to support cities and improve the lives of people living in them.