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UN Habitat Assembly opens with calls for accelerating urban renewal

STORY: UN Habitat Assembly opens with calls for accelerating urban renewal DATELINE: June 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:43 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of UN headquarters exteriors 2. various of UN country member flags 3. various of Kenyan president arriving at the meeting room 4. various of the meeting 5. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): WILLIAM RUTO, Kenyan President 6. various of the meeting 7. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MAIMUNAH MOHD SHARIF, Executive director, United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) 8. various of the meeting STORYLINE: The second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly kicked off in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on Monday, with delegates renewing the call for concerted efforts to regenerate urban centers. It is imperative that the international community accelerates urban renewal in order to achieve green, inclusive and resilient growth, said Kenyan President William Ruto in his opening speech. The pursuit of sustainable urbanization, said Ruto, is urgent

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China's approach to urban planning people-centered: UN-Habitat chief

STORY: China's approach to urban planning people-centered: UN-Habitat chief DATELINE: June 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:54 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the United Nations (UN) Habitat Assembly 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MAIMUNAH MOHD SHARIF, UN-Habitat Executive Director 3. various of the United Nations (UN) Habitat Assembly 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MAIMUNAH MOHD SHARIF, UN-Habitat Executive Director STORYLINE: The second session of the United Nations (UN) Habitat Assembly kicked off in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on Monday, with delegates renewing the call for concerted efforts to regenerate urban centers. Maimunah Mohd Sharif, executive director of the UN Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat), praised China's urban development in an interview ahead of the assembly. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MAIMUNAH MOHD SHARIF, UN-Habitat Executive Director "I was pleasantly impressed with the development of China, especially that your country is embracing and advancing the people-centered appr

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KENYA-NAIROBI-UN-HABITAT ASSEMBLY-OPENING

(230605) -- NAIROBI, June 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on June 5, 2023 shows a view of the opening ceremony of the second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya. The second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly kicked off in Nairobi on Monday, with delegates renewing the call for concerted efforts to regenerate urban centers. (Xinhua/Li Yahui)

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KENYA-NAIROBI-UN-HABITAT ASSEMBLY-OPENING

(230605) -- NAIROBI, June 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on June 5, 2023 shows an exterior view of the venue of the second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya. The second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly kicked off in Nairobi on Monday, with delegates renewing the call for concerted efforts to regenerate urban centers. (Xinhua/Li Yahui)

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KENYA-NAIROBI-UN-HABITAT ASSEMBLY-OPENING

(230605) -- NAIROBI, June 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on June 5, 2023 shows a view of the opening ceremony of the second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya. The second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly kicked off in Nairobi on Monday, with delegates renewing the call for concerted efforts to regenerate urban centers. (Xinhua/Li Yahui)

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KENYA-NAIROBI-UN-HABITAT ASSEMBLY-OPENING

(230605) -- NAIROBI, June 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan President William Ruto delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, June 5, 2023. The second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly kicked off in Nairobi on Monday, with delegates renewing the call for concerted efforts to regenerate urban centers. (Xinhua/Li Yahui)

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KENYA-NAIROBI-UN-HABITAT ASSEMBLY-OPENING

(230605) -- NAIROBI, June 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on June 5, 2023 shows a view of the opening ceremony of the second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya. The second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly kicked off in Nairobi on Monday, with delegates renewing the call for concerted efforts to regenerate urban centers. (Xinhua/Han Xu)

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Trees planted to reforest tsunami-hit area in northern Japan

MIYAKO, Japan - People plant young trees to reforest an area in the Taro district of Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 14, 2014, to regenerate tide barrier forests lost in the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Riken eyes iPS clinical research

KOBE, Japan - Masayo Takahashi (L), an ophthalmologist who heads Riken's research team on retinal regeneration at the Riken Center for Development Biology, speaks during a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on Feb. 28, 2013. Riken, Japan's state-backed scientific research institute, applied for government permission the same day for its plan to conduct clinical research using induced pluripotent stem cells, known as iPS cells, to regenerate retina.

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Riken eyes iPS clinical research

KOBE, Japan - Masayo Takahashi (L), an ophthalmologist who heads Riken's research team on retinal regeneration at the Riken Center for Development Biology, speaks during a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on Feb. 28, 2013. Riken, Japan's state-backed scientific research institute, applied for government permission the same day for its plan to conduct clinical research using induced pluripotent stem cells, known as iPS cells, to regenerate retina.

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Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

Regenerate Poster Film: Resident Evil: Apocalypse; Resident Evil: Nemesis; Resident Evil 2 (GER/USA/UK/CAN/FR 2004) / Resident Evil 2 Director: Alexander Witt 10 September 2004 Date: 10 September 2004

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Tree-planting drive in tsunami-hit Miyagi spawns hope for fresh greenery

A family plants tree saplings at the Hachiman Shrine in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, during an event on June 14, 2015, to regenerate a forest at the shrine where 800 Japanese cedar trees were swept away in the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Exhibition, architectural proposal, former factory Tepna Nachod, brownfield

Architectural project of Piotr Person, Olga Czeranowska-Panufnik, Wladyslawa Kijewska and Aleksander Sojka of Poland won international contest to regenerate brownfield site New Tepna Nachod. Pictured architecture proposal exhibition of New Tepna in city center of Nachod, Czech Republic, March 12, 2021. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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Exhibition, architectural proposal, former factory Tepna Nachod, brownfield

Architectural project of Piotr Person, Olga Czeranowska-Panufnik, Wladyslawa Kijewska and Aleksander Sojka of Poland won international contest to regenerate brownfield site New Tepna Nachod. Pictured architecture proposal exhibition of New Tepna in city center of Nachod, Czech Republic, March 12, 2021. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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Former factory Tepna Nachod, brownfield

Architectural project of Piotr Person, Olga Czeranowska-Panufnik, Wladyslawa Kijewska and Aleksander Sojka of Poland won international contest to regenerate brownfield site New Tepna Nachod. Pictured architecture proposal exhibition of New Tepna in city center of Nachod, Czech Republic, March 12, 2021. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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Former factory Tepna Nachod, brownfield

Architectural project of Piotr Person, Olga Czeranowska-Panufnik, Wladyslawa Kijewska and Aleksander Sojka of Poland won international contest to regenerate brownfield site New Tepna Nachod. Pictured areal of former factory Tepna in Nachod, Czech Republic, March 12, 2021. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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Former factory Tepna Nachod, brownfield

Architectural project of Piotr Person, Olga Czeranowska-Panufnik, Wladyslawa Kijewska and Aleksander Sojka of Poland won international contest to regenerate brownfield site New Tepna Nachod. Pictured areal of former factory Tepna in Nachod, Czech Republic, March 12, 2021. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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Exhibition, architectural proposal, former factory Tepna Nachod, brownfield

Architectural project of Piotr Person, Olga Czeranowska-Panufnik, Wladyslawa Kijewska and Aleksander Sojka of Poland won international contest to regenerate brownfield site New Tepna Nachod. Pictured architecture proposal exhibition of New Tepna in city center of Nachod, Czech Republic, March 12, 2021. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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Former factory Tepna Nachod, brownfield

Architectural project of Piotr Person, Olga Czeranowska-Panufnik, Wladyslawa Kijewska and Aleksander Sojka of Poland won international contest to regenerate brownfield site New Tepna Nachod. Pictured areal of former factory Tepna in Nachod, Czech Republic, March 12, 2021. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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Exhibition, architectural proposal, former factory Tepna Nachod, brownfield

Architectural project of Piotr Person, Olga Czeranowska-Panufnik, Wladyslawa Kijewska and Aleksander Sojka of Poland won international contest to regenerate brownfield site New Tepna Nachod. Pictured architecture proposal exhibition of New Tepna in city center of Nachod, Czech Republic, March 12, 2021. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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Exhibition, architectural proposal, former factory Tepna Nachod, brownfield

Architectural project of Piotr Person, Olga Czeranowska-Panufnik, Wladyslawa Kijewska and Aleksander Sojka of Poland won international contest to regenerate brownfield site New Tepna Nachod. Pictured architecture proposal exhibition of New Tepna in city center of Nachod, Czech Republic, March 12, 2021. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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Exhibition, architectural proposal, former factory Tepna Nachod, brownfield

Architectural project of Piotr Person, Olga Czeranowska-Panufnik, Wladyslawa Kijewska and Aleksander Sojka of Poland won international contest to regenerate brownfield site New Tepna Nachod. Pictured architecture proposal exhibition of New Tepna in city center of Nachod, Czech Republic, March 12, 2021. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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Exhibition, architectural proposal, former factory Tepna Nachod, brownfield

Architectural project of Piotr Person, Olga Czeranowska-Panufnik, Wladyslawa Kijewska and Aleksander Sojka of Poland won international contest to regenerate brownfield site New Tepna Nachod. Pictured architecture proposal exhibition of New Tepna in city center of Nachod, Czech Republic, March 12, 2021. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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Exhibition, architectural proposal, former factory Tepna Nachod, brownfield

Architectural project of Piotr Person, Olga Czeranowska-Panufnik, Wladyslawa Kijewska and Aleksander Sojka of Poland won international contest to regenerate brownfield site New Tepna Nachod. Pictured architecture proposal exhibition of New Tepna in city center of Nachod, Czech Republic, March 12, 2021. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)

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THOMAS HEATHERWICK

British Designer THOMAS HEATHERWICK speaks during the Global forum reSITE 2019 Regenerate on city renewal and use of resources for their changing needs in Prague, Czech Republic, September 19, 2019. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)

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INES DE MEDEIROS

INES DE MEDEIROS, the Mayor of Portuguese Almada speaks during the Global forum reSITE 2019 Regenerate on city renewal and use of resources for their changing needs in Prague, Czech Republic, September 19, 2019. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)

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INES DE MEDEIROS

INES DE MEDEIROS, the Mayor of Portuguese Almada speaks during the Global forum reSITE 2019 Regenerate on city renewal and use of resources for their changing needs in Prague, Czech Republic, September 19, 2019. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)

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Gerard Schuurman

Gerard Schuurman, the Project Director of the Imperial Shipyard project in Gdansk speaks during the Global forum reSITE 2019 Regenerate on city renewal and use of resources for their changing needs in Prague, Czech Republic, September 19, 2019. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)

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THOMAS HEATHERWICK

British Designer THOMAS HEATHERWICK speaks during the Global forum reSITE 2019 Regenerate on city renewal and use of resources for their changing needs in Prague, Czech Republic, September 19, 2019. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)

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THOMAS HEATHERWICK

British Designer THOMAS HEATHERWICK speaks during the Global forum reSITE 2019 Regenerate on city renewal and use of resources for their changing needs in Prague, Czech Republic, September 19, 2019. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)

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THOMAS HEATHERWICK

British Designer THOMAS HEATHERWICK speaks during the Global forum reSITE 2019 Regenerate on city renewal and use of resources for their changing needs in Prague, Czech Republic, September 19, 2019. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)