World Urban Forum 2024. Cities of Opportunity: Connecting Culture and Innovation

The World Urban Forum (WUF) is the world’s leading conference on sustainable urbanization. It was created by the United Nations in 2001 to examine one of the most pressing issues facing the world: rapid urbanization and its impact on communities, cities, economies, and climate change.

Over the past two decades, the WUF has become the world’s leading conference on sustainable urbanization. Convened by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the forum is a unique non-legislative platform and one of the most inclusive international gatherings on urban issues. The first WUF was held in Nairobi, Kenya in 2002 and has since been held around the world.

WUF12 will be held from 4 to 8 November 2024 in Cairo, Egypt, and is co-organized by UN-Habitat and the Government of Egypt.

The event aims to:

• Raise awareness of sustainable urbanization among stakeholders and groups, including the general public.
• Enhance collective knowledge on sustainable urban development through open and inclusive debate, exchange of best practices and policies, and exchange of lessons learned.
• Promote collaboration and cooperation among different stakeholders and groups involved in the advancement and implementation of sustainable urbanization. 

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