SDG 11: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
MAKE CITIES AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS INCLUSIVE, SAFE, RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE.
Education can promote sustainable cities and communities by increasing awareness about local sustainable development and enabling community participation insustainable development initiatives.
SDG 11 Partners
The Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability (HCGS) emerges as a leading research and policy hub in Europe dedicated to promoting integrated sustainability that is both nature positive and socially equitable.
The new centre’s double mission is:
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to conduct cutting-edge academic research on the complex interactions between natural, economic, social, legal and political systems
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to inform, through research and outreach, decision-making on global sustainability for a peaceful, equitable and sustainable world for current and future living communities.
The City of Geneva is a municipality of 208,000 inhabitants at the heart of the canton of the same name. Its Agenda 21 - Sustainable City department is working with the Department of Social Cohesion and Solidarity to implement the 2022-2026 “Geneva, Child-Friendly City” Action Plan. Within this framework, environmental education and empowering activities are offered to Geneva's children and young people in and out of school, through subsidies of around CHF 300,000 per year, granted to a number of local associations.