BMUN LXX UN Habitat

The article referenced in this post can be found here . Feel free to read the article if you want more in-depth information before continuing! This article covers the second topic of our committee, Building Inclusive Cities for Disabled Persons. Although the message was directed at the Iowa climate planning team, it generally covers the dangers of not considering inclusivity when planning cities. They bring up how cities do not facilitate safe environments for disabled persons through their poorly designed infrastructure, which are tested to the extreme with natural disasters ranging from floods to an annual heatwave. The article brought many interesting reflections to the table. In power outages, there was no protocol or any accessible healthcare individuals could rely on, causing several to die and many to leave the state. Transportation not considering inclusive practices in Toronto and British Columbia led to innumerable and preventable deaths. Although these problems may sound sit...

H ey there, my name is Daewon Kwon and I’ll be one of your chairs for UN-Habitat at this year’s BMUN conference! This is my fifth year of MUN in general but this will be my first conference in Berkeley, so I look forward to the diverse solutions you’ll present in committee. I am a freshman studying Psychology and Data Science, with a focus on social psychology! From researching bias in pair programming environments to modeling data, I love to explore the intersection between technology and the study of our minds. Outside of school and BMUN, I love to free dive (I plan on getting scuba certified next semester), bake, lift, and enjoy pretty much any artistic hobby out there! I can’t wait to meet you all in committee!

Hello and welcome to UN Habitat! We’re a couple weeks away from BMUN LXX, and I’m thrilled to introduce you to our committee. This post will be addressing a key question: what does UN Habitat actually do? How is it different from other committees? Urban development is very intersectional, encompassing many factors – including but not limited to social, economic, environmental, and technological sectors. With this, it’s easy to confuse what UN Habitat does with other UN committees because of the broadness of what it addresses. On UN Habitat’s website , they describe the four key roles of UN Habitat:  THINK: UN Habitat sets standards, proposes norms/principles, and monitors global policies related to the creation of sustainable cities. In their strategic plan , UN Habitat describes itself as a “solutions agent” to deliver change. An example of this is Habitat III’s New Urban Agenda for the building of inclusive communities. With regards to our topics, where are there gaps in the cre...