I-House - a green, sustainable urban development initiative

On January 11, the United Nations launched the i-House initiative and a global network to enhance people's awareness of green urban development, and promote coordination and sharing of knowledge. Green and sustainable urban development.

Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Director of the United Nations Human Settlement Program (UN-HABITAT), Dr. Joan Clos, stressed the urgent need to coordinate global efforts in design and construction. build green houses and promote sustainable construction activities to shape a more universal way of building green cities.

The focus of the i-House initiative is to build housing for low-income people and upgrade urban slums in developing countries as well as provide housing for people in the post-crisis period. .

I-house is a home designed to meet the needs of 'greening' and efficient use of energy resources. I-Build, i-Build, i-Build platform is promoted by UN-HABITAT to share best skills and practices on building green houses to developed countries to promote urbanization process lasting.

UN-HABITAT emphasizes that although the need to build green houses to ensure sustainable environment is very large in developing countries.

However, countries still lack the ability, will, knowledge sharing as well as institutional and regulatory support so that standards of sustainability and environmental friendliness are always highlighted in the projects. projects, programs for construction and development of urban housing as well as private housing.

Currently UN-HABITAT and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) are supporting the Haitian government to implement the country's reconstruction and development strategies of Port-au-Prince, which are severely damaged after the carpet 2010 earthquake.