Human Settlement Indicators for SDGs SDG Goal 11

Human Settlement Indicators for SDGs SDG Goal 11: The European Commission is committed to the Sustainable Development Goals and will monitor them at the EU level The urban SDG presents an opportunity to align the Urban Agenda for the EU with the new Urban Agenda The EU wants to promote more policy exchanges between EU cities and cities in the rest of the world 1 st Technical Meeting

Human Settlement Indicators for SDGs Definitions (Global): The World Bank, OECD and the EU launched a voluntary commitment at Habitat III to develop a global, people-based definition of cities and settlements. Using the same reporting units will make data comparable and far more useful: • Urban centre (available globally) • City (can be created globally) • City plus commuting zone (can be proxied globally using a 30 minute buffer) 1 st Technical Meeting

Human Settlement Indicators for SDGs Urban centre, city and commuting zone 1 st Technical Meeting

Creating a global population grid Census data on population Share of area covered by buildings based on satellite imagery Total population by 1 km grid cell + Source: JRC GHSL = Source: CIESIN, Columbia University Source: JRC GHS Pop

Three types of grid cells define three types of municipalities Urban centres Urban Clusters Rural grid cells Contiguous cells with at least 1, 500 inhabitants per Defines a km 2 and at least 50, 000 city inhabitants in the centre Contiguous cells with at least 300 inhabitants per km 2 and at least 5, 000 inhabitants in the cluster Defines towns and suburbs All cells outside urban clusters Defines rural areas

Degree of urbanisation in Kenia

Human Settlement Indicators for SDGs Global data is available http: //ghsl. jrc. europa. eu GIS-layers with • population grid • degree of urbanisation (settlement model) • Built-up area • Time series 1975, 1990, 2000 and 2015 • The goal is to update these layers every year using new satellite imagery (Sentinel 1 and 2) 1 st Technical Meeting

Human Settlement Indicators for SDGs Calendar for activities on the global definition • Side event on 6 March during UN Statistical • • Commission Conference Room 4, UN Conference Centre, New York Presentation at Kunming, China Forum of Geospatial Information and services for disasters 5 May (tbc) Presentation 15 -18 May at OECD during conference on National urban Policies International Association for Official Statistics, July 2017, Marrakech, Morocco World Urban Forum 2018, Kuala Lumpur 1 st Technical Meeting

Human Settlement Indicators for SDGs Needs for goal 11 regional point of View The EU will collect the following data per city (EU-OECD def): • Access to public transport including frequency of departures • Access to urban green space (takes into account the spatial distribution of green AND of population) • Artificial area per capita and change • Exposure to particulate matter • Traffic fatalities per capita The following indicator by degree of urbanisation per country • Housing crowdedness, debt overburden or quality 1 st Technical Meeting

Human Settlement Indicators for SDGs AOB relevant to SDG 11: Ensure that methodological guidelines are compatible with the use of harmonised reporting units. So it should provide options to use either the harmonised reporting unit, national units or if needed specific units for a specific indicator (such as contiguous built-up areas) 1 st Technical Meeting

Human Settlement Indicators for SDGs AOB relevant to SDG 11: Important to start thinking about alternative indicators to better capture the issues of SDG 11 • Instead of share of public space, measure people living in areas with insufficient space • The land use change indicator could be changed to support the narrative of controlled dedensification in extremely dense cities. The changes in land use per capita is one option. 1 st Technical Meeting