Environmental Sustainability Planning for Rebuilding Ukraine

Ukraine has committed to plan now to build back better when and where the conflict allows. UN Habiat has committed to provide planning guidance and tools to support planning for rebuilding. The APA International Division's Ukraine Rebuilding Action Group (URAG) has received an Divisions Council Research Grant to develop sustainability guidelines using an innovative methodology: (1) using Ukraine's progress in achieving the 17 UN SDGs as a baseline context for each of the 11 recommended environmental guidelines for subnational governments of UN Habitat's Urban and Territorial Guidelines; (2) identifying and describing in step-wise fashion the most relevant international best practices for each environmental guideline; and (3) conducting a gap analysis between the baseline SDGs achievements and international best practices and presenting an action plan for closing the gap for each guideline. The process will test if and how the many measures being evaluated that appear to be unique to the conflict align with UNH's guidelines, including whether the conflict or recent climate change affect guideline appropriateness or feasibility.

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