High-Level Ministerial Roundtable on Green Urban Transport held within COP29

Then Anaclaudia Rossbach, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the UN-Habitat, a leading UN agency, spoke at the event. “The Ministerial Meeting on Urbanization and Climate Change comes at a critical moment as countries are revising their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). This meeting represented a key opportunity for dialogue that can help highlight the importance of aligning national strategies with local realities including the housing crisis, energy poverty, the loss of nature and biodiversity in cities and the challenge of financing development priorities. Ultimately, we believe this meeting will help maximize our collective impact in addressing climate challenges,” said Anaclaudia…