{"disclaimer":"Transcripts available through this tool are created by using automatic speech recognition and are not official records nor official documents of the United Nations. Official records and official documents are available on the Official Document System of the United Nations.","url":"https://transcripts.un.org/en/asset/k1h/k1hatadkto","llms":{"note":"Plain-text sibling of this page, compact for LLM context. For the full API guide (search, listing, URL grammar) see /llms.txt.","textUrl":"/en/asset/k1h/k1hatadkto.txt","guide":"/llms.txt"},"video":{"id":"k1h/k1hatadkto","kaltura_id":"1_hatadkto","title":"UN-Habitat Arena - NDCs 3.0: Urban Law and Multi-level Governance to Enable Climate Commitments (WUF13)","clean_title":"UN-Habitat Arena - NDCs 3.0: Urban Law and Multi-level Governance to Enable Climate Commitments (WUF13)","url":"https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1h/k1hatadkto","date":"2026-05-19T00:00:00.000Z","scheduled_time":"2026-05-19T09:30:00.000Z","status":"finished","duration":"00:57:37","category":"Conferences","body":null,"event_code":null,"event_type":null,"session_number":null,"pv_symbol":null,"pv_part":null,"slug":"asset/k1h/k1hatadkto"},"metadata":{"summary":"The thirteenth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13) takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 17 to 22 May 2026. The theme of WUF13 is: Housing the world: Safe and resilient cities and communities.","description":"This event explores how law, governance, and policy can bridge the gap between national climate ambitions and local realities, putting cities at the center of climate action.\nThe urgency of aligning urban development with climate action has never been clearer. Cities are at the heart of both the climate crisis and its solutions, responsible for a significant share of global emissions, yet uniquely positioned to drive transformative change. Effective climate action depends not only on ambition, but also on the systems, legal, institutional, and financial, that enable delivery. This event explores how legal and policy frameworks can bridge the gap between national climate ambitions and local urban realities.\nThis event will mark the official launch of UN-Habitat's latest report on the urban content of NDCs 3.0, including evidence how governments are moving towards lining out concrete measures across mitigation and adaptation and the means of implementation to turn this ambition into action on the ground. It underscores the pivotal role of cities in delivering national climate goals, while calling for stronger legal, institutional, and governance frameworks to support implementation at the local level.\nBy focusing on the intersection of law, urban governance, and climate policy, this event highlights a key opportunity: accelerate climate action by weaving city priorities into national plans, strengthening laws and policies, while equipping local governments with the mandates, tools, and resources to deliver.\nPanelists:\nAnacláudia Rossbach, Executive Director, UN-Habitat\nSelwin Hart, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition\nTomáš Taraba, Deputy Prime Minister, Slovakia\nJustice Zione Ntaba, High Court Judge, Malawi\nHenk Ovink, Special Envoy Water, Netherlands\nFiona McCluney, UN-Habitat\nLea Ranalder, UN-Habitat","categories":["Meetings & Events","Conferences","World Urban Forum","13th"],"geographic_subject":[],"subject_topical":[],"corporate_name":[],"speaker_affiliation":[],"related_documents":[{"title":"World Urban Forum Website","url":"https://wuf.unhabitat.org/"},{"title":"Programme","url":"https://wuf.unhabitat.org/main-events"}]},"transcript":null,"message":"No transcript available"}