Press Release
11.10.2024, Berlin
National and international water policy must adapt to ongoing, accelerated changes in the global water cycle and respond to them quickly and comprehensively.
Flagship Report
11.10.2024
In a climatically and geopolitically heated world, the challenges surrounding water are becoming substantially more acute. Uncertainty is becoming the norm; the limits of controllability could be…
Factsheet
06.03.2024
Health systems have the potential to promote healthy and sustainable lifestyles and living conditions. At the same time, they must meet new challenges posed by environmental changes such as climate…
Flagship Report
19.06.2023
Our lifestyle is making us ill and is destroying the natural life-support systems. In the vision of ‘healthy living on a healthy planet’, human spheres of life – what we eat, how we move,…
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…
Factsheet
01.11.2016
In its report‚ Humanity on the move: Unlocking the transformative power of cities (2016), the WBGU examines the transformation of cities towards sustainability.
Press Release
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 Release
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 Release
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 will…