UN-GGIM: Europe webinar series: SDG 11.7.1

Target 11.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals aims to ensure the availability of open and public space for all inhabitants of cities.

Open and public spaces play a wide variety of roles in urban areas. The overall productivity of a city relates to the presence of adequate open spaces, while public open spaces – often green spaces, but also non-green spaces) are relevant in ensuring climate change resilience and adaptation of cities, in promoting socially equitable life circumstances for the inhabitants, and in being beneficial for the health and well-being of the urban population.

A meaningful reporting on the state of play and the progress towards this target needs to take into account the spatial heterogeneity or urban areas throughout countries and regions. Hence, adequate geospatial data and analysis play a key role in providing indicators that reflect this diversity and that enhance the monitoring of different cities throughout the territory.

Various organisations in Europe, at international, national, regional and local level have worked on operationalising indicator 11.7.1 and/or related indicators, using a wide range of authoritative and non-authoritative geospatial data and tools. Each of them has faced challenges of data availability, integration or harmonisation, and has applied strategies and methods to cope with those.

Hence, in an attempt to progress towards an even more integrated approach of providing meaningful indicators, this webinar proposes to take stock of some of the European and national experiences, to exchange best practices and opportunities and to jointly discuss opportunities for further development of the indicator framework

The webinar will take place on the 4th of June from 10:00 to 12:00 CEST.

Concept note can be accessed here. (10/04/2025)

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