Climate Chance African Summit 2021 – Urban Thinkers Campus “Planning African metropolises for climate resilience”
Let’s meet on 16th Thursday 2021 from 4:00pm to 5:30 CEST in virtual. Inscription : https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkd-igrTgtHtRVY_bN8iDcylPkxeXdg1c7 The 3rd edition of the Climate Chance Africa Summit will take place from the 15 to the 17 of september 2021 in virtual (more informations about the summit here). This edition of the summit will articulated around the question of […]
Urban thinkers campus : Megacities’ post-covid planning
The Fnau with the global network for urban planning agencies (MTPA), the Institut Paris Region , Metropolis and ISOCARP, organized an Urban Thinkers Campus, on “Megacities’ post-covid planning”, the 3rd of July 2020. This Urban Thinkers Campus took part in the second series of campuses on the covid-19 crisis. It gathered a panel of actors, […]
The FNAU at the World Urban Forum 10 “Cities of opportunities: connecting culture and innovation”
From the 8 until the 13 of February 2020, the 10th edition of the World Urban Forum 10 (WUF) in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, have welcomed more than 16 000 stakeholders and citizens from all over the world and from all fields of work, all involved or sensitized to the importance […]
The Climate Chance Summit – Africa 2019
From the 16 to the 18 of October 2019, the 2nd African edition of the Climate Chance Summit took place in Accra, capital of Ghana, on the theme “Working together to step up climate action”. This edition gathered around 2 000 participants representing 50 different countries, including 34 African countries. This meeting was also the opportunity […]
FNAU accompanies Zgharta/Ehden town in Lebanon
The municipality of Zgharta / Ehden in connection with United Cities Lebanon / Technical Office of Lebanese Cities (BTVL) asked the FNAU in the perspective of a pilot action for the creation of an urban agency in north Lebanon. In this perspective, a prefiguration seminar for this territorial agency is held from 21 to 23 […]
The FNAU at the 9th World Urban Forum
The 9th World Urban Forum – WUF9 – is being held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in February 2018. This global meeting is the first step towards the implementation of the new Urban Agenda, adopted during the Habitat III Conference: the opportunity to build the cities of tomorrow, cities for all. The WUF9 brings together […]
Guide to create an urban planning agency
In partnership with the French Agency for Development. Although urban planning agencies have been around, some of them, for over 50 years, they are relatively unknown. However, their role half-way between the worlds of technology and politics, although atypical, is essential so that informed decisions can be made and proper action taken in a given […]
Habitat III in Quito
The Habitat summits take place every 20 years on the initiative of UN-Habitat, to provide the guidelines for a sustainable city. After Vancouver in 1976, Istanbul in 1996, Habitat III will be held in Quito on the topic of housing and sustainable urban development : what future for urbanization ? and is meant to define […]
Climate Chance
On September 26th, 27th and 28th of 2016, the Climate Chance summit has taken place in Nantes, the event for non-state actors dedicated to concrete action in the field of the fight against climate change. The FNAU has taken part in three events. Further information in the calendar.
Urban thinkers campus Paris Acts – Smart planning for sustainable cities
Following the Paris urban campus about smart planning for sustainable cities held at the UNESCO January 20th and 21st, the FNAU publishes the urban thinkers campus Paris Acts. This publication shows the richness of the debates and of the propositions which came out of two days of exchange. To implement the new urban agenda, we […]
Paris Urban Thinkers Campus
Around 30 Urban Thinkers Campus are taking place worldwide on the initiative of the World Urban Campaign to prepare the Habitat III Conference to be held in Quito in October 2016. The FNAU, the Paris Region Planning and Development Agency (IAU Île-de-France) and the PFVT have organized a campus, the one of Paris gathering French urban […]
The agencies network at the COP 21
The FNAU and urban planning agencies engage in the frame of the COP21, through events, TV shows and conferences. The FNAU works hand in hand with more than 20 local authorities (cities, intercity organisations, metropolises and regions) and with 14 associations of local representatives under the banner “territories in movement for climate”, a spot to […]