Global Urban Sustainability: Uniting Cities through the U20 Agenda

Abstract

Major cities from all around the world meet as the U20 (Urban 20) to talk about shared urban problems and work together to find answers. City leaders use the U20 Summit as a forum to discuss ideas, best practices, and urban sustainability advocacy. The U20 Agenda 2023 is centered on several topics related to urban sustainable development. These objectives, which prioritize inclusive, resilient, and sustainable cities, are in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN. As a result, the paper’s goal is to investigate the U20 agenda and its impact on county’s development. Cities from G20 nations may hold conversations on a range of crucial urban development challenges, such as social inclusion, affordable housing, sustainable mobility, and climate change, according to the U20 platform. Priority areas are climate action include mitigating emissions, improving urban resilience, addressing climate change, encouraging fairness, communal unity, and all citizens' access to essential services is known as Social Inclusion. Urban infrastructure includes improving public areas, transit, and infrastructure. Governance and collaboration include encouraging collaborations between cities and fortifying governance frameworks. A descriptive study is undertaken to ascertain the goals and data is collected from a variety of reports, journals and research papers, with a focus on stressing that the study exclusively relies on secondary sources. The study’s primary conclusion is Together, the U20 cities collaborate on projects, exchange expertise, and push for laws that support sustainable urban growth. They hope to have a good influence on the local, national, and international levels by working together. Second, the 21st century presents several issues for urban regions like rapid urbanization in environmental threats, water, food, and energy resource scarcity, uneven provision of resources in inequality, and loss of green spaces in urban sprawl.