Statement
27.02.2017
The New Urban Agenda (NUA) adopted in 2016 at the Habitat III Conference (the third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development) is to serve as a framework for global urban…
Press Releases
20.10.2016, Berlin
With the New Urban Agenda adopted today at the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), the world’s governments adopted a number of important political goals: improve…
Press Releases
04.10.2016, Berlin
Habitat III's success should be measured by whether we succeed in putting urbanization at the top of the agenda of world politics – says the WBGU in its statement on the UN Conference on Housing and…
Statement
04.10.2016
From 17-20 October 2016, government representatives from all over the world will gather for the “United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development – Habitat III”, in Quito,…
Press Releases
25.04.2016, Berlin
WBGU report addresses Habitat III
More than 2-3 billion people worldwide will move from the country to the cities within the next few decades, doubling the population of the world's slums. It…
Flagship Report
20.01.2016
The momentum of urbanization and its impacts are so massive that we must face up to this trend.
Press Releases
01.03.2013, Berlin
Book launch
A report by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) has been adapted as a comic for the first time. The 140-page volume is being presented to the public today at the…
Comic
01.01.2013
A comic explains the WBGU flagship report „World in Transition – A Social Contract for Sustainability“. Climate change, the Anthropocene, rising CO2 levels, the Earth Summit in Rio, wind turbines,…
Flagship Report
17.03.2011
In this report, the WBGU explains the reasons for the desperate need for a post-fossil economic strategy, yet it also concludes that the transition to sustainability is achievable, and presents ten…
Video
Human Power – The concept of planetary guard rails
How can we make global development possible without compromising our natural life-support systems, and which forms of damage must be avoided?…