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Department of State Seeks American Corporate Engagement at World Urban Forum
Preparing its agenda for the United Nations’ fifth World Urban Forum (WUF V) in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, March 22-26, the Department of State expects the American contingent to include many private-sector participants, especially from companies engaged in urban planning, sustainable architecture, information technology, economic development or smart growth. More than half of the world’s population already lives in cities, with 70 percent projected by 2050, says the Department of State in an invitation to private sector, stressing the need ''to make urban growth environmentally sustainable, socially equitable, and economically valuable.''
Focused this year on the theme The Right to the City – Bridging the Urban Divide, the forum is ''a premier international opportunity to discuss business applications, successes, and lessons learned'' among governmental, non-governmental and corporate decision-makers addressing ''challenges and opportunities presented by urban development on the global scale.'' Speaking to the 2008 Nanjing forum, Brazilian Consul General Marcos Caramuru de Paiva told delegates all these challenges and opportunities demand joint action. ''Our home planet is only one,'' he said. ''We change addresses but consume the same globalized products, we travel the same way, we use the same natural resources and we develop together.'' 1/27/2010
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