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Date Posted: Monday, August 19, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all. For close to forty years, UN-Habitat has been working in human settlements throughout the world, focusing on building a brighter future for villages, towns, and cities of all sizes.
UN-Habitat’s Urban Planning and Design Branch supports countries in developing urban planning methods and promotes urban planning approaches to address urban growth and urban transformation processes in countries with rapid urbanization and where cities face urban challenges. The Branch consists of three units, including the Climate Change Planning Unit (CCPU).
CCPU is leading and coordinating UN-Habitat’s work on urban climate change mitigation and adaptation, implementing several flagship initiatives and projects.
• The Cities and Climate Change Initiative (CCCI), launched in August 2008, supports small- and medium-sized cities in developing countries to address the climate challenge, and become more resilient to climate change and embrace low-carbon strategies.
• Projects such as Developing and Financing City Climate Action Plans; Pro-poor planning of Climate Resilience in Marginalized Neighborhoods; Accelerating Climate Action through the Promotion of Urban Low Emission Development Strategies; Addressing Urban and Human Settlement Issues in National Adaptation Plans; etc.
• CCPU is also overseeing the mainstreaming of Climate Change, one of UN-Habitat’s four cross-cutting topics, into the agency’s normative and operational work. .

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