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PRIORITYMEASURE80
“Formulate development strategies for city systems to encompass territorial planning and environmental sustainability, promoting energy transition and sustainable
production and consumption processes, taking into consideration social and environmental externalities, withinahuman rights framework, inorder to promote
sustainable and inclusive urbandevelopment, and strengthenall segments of such systems, including intermediate and small cities.”
Possible lines of action
1. Adopt policies for territorial planning and environmental sustainability that consider the country’s city systems and their rural
surroundings; 2. Design urban development policies that are conducive to people’s well-being and to the social, economic and
environmental sustainability of the city system and its rural surroundings; 3. Design a sustainable energy policy that considers the use of
renewable energies; 4. Create and strengthen economic, social and environmental linkages and cooperation among the country’s different
cities through strategies for developing the city system and its rural surroundings; 5. Design and implement programmes to improve air
quality in the country’smain urban areas; 6. Introduce a geo-statistical information system that contains standardized information useful
for taking planning andmanagement decisions.
Targets
1. Include land use planning guidelines and environmental sustainability mechanisms in the development plans of cities and their rural
surroundings; 2. Have programmes or measures that promote cooperation among the cities of the system and their rural surroundings;
3.Reduce environmental pollution, especially particulatematter, in urban areas; 4. Have in place a geographic information system (GIS) that
includes informationon all cities and that is useful for taking territorial planning andmanagement decisions.
Tentative indicators
1. Percentage of cities with development plans that include action to promote cooperation among cities, sustainability, resilience and the
human rights framework; 2. Annual rate of reduction in concentrations of particulatematter 10 and 2.5; 3. Percentage of energy generated
through sustainable production processes, solid waste recycling, treatment of grey water and sewage; 4. Percentage of city or local
governments that have a geographic information system for planning andmanagement decisions.
Related instruments,
forums andmechanisms
The agenda of Habitat III (theUnitedNations Conference onHousing and SustainableUrbanDevelopment) provides for follow-upwith
its measure to “Promote geographically balanced settlement structures”, inwhich it establishes twomonitoring indicators: Key indicator
11, Urban Population Growth, “Average annual growth rate of population in the urban agglomeration or in national urban areas during
the last five years (1998-2003 reference period.)” and Key indicator 12, Planned Settlements, “Level at which urban land is planned in
order to cater to the needs of populations”. In its 2013 Santiago Declaration, MINURVI addresses this matter in agreements 3 and
4: (3) “To establish homogeneous methodologies and indicators that allow comparison of the performance of cities, in order to optimize
regional strategies and support their strengthening through cooperation”; and (4) “Reduce the environmental impact on cities in a
[comprehensive]manner through territorial [planning].”
As to the sustainable development goals, several of these are related to this priority measure. Goal 11, “Make cities and human
settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”, target 11.3: “by 2030 enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacities
for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning andmanagement in all countries”; target 11.6: “by 2030, reduce
the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality, municipal and other waste
management”; 11.a: “support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, periurban and rural areas by
strengthening national and regional development planning”; 11.b: “by 2020, increase by x% the number of cities and human settlements
adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate
change, resilience to disasters, and develop and implement in line with the forthcoming Hyogo Framework holistic disaster risk
management at all levels.”
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