Sustainable Urbanization between Two Ambitious Global Agendas: An Integration Approach

Abstract

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the New Urban Agenda (NUA) form significant ambitions towards a sustainable and better human future. The sustainable development goals (SDGs) have a deep-rooted urban dimension, as exemplified in Goal 11, which intends to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable, and around 23% of the SDG indicators have a clear urban component. That is forming a window of opportunity to integrate both Agendas towards sustainable urbanization and improving the quality of life in urban agglomerations. Both Agendas should be functioning jointly towards contributing to improving the quality of life and providing all essential life services and needs. Thus, the integration approach is the best pathway to synergy aims of both Agendas to tackle the challenges and formulate a coherent interlinkage in the thematic areas. Consequently, urbanization and sustainable urban agglomeration development need a strong Agenda and implementation framework to tackle the environmental, social, and economic challenges of urban agglomerations. Therefore, the big lesson distillery from both Agendas is to localize the SDGs in the urban agglomerations to attain sustainability at a broad scope. Overall, the integrated approach to urban sustainability covers all sustainability aspects and the correlations among sustainability dimensions in both Agendas.

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