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manage its waste. The city takes on a community-based city to identify what it is already doing to implement
approach and stimulates ownership of the initiative the SDGs and where the gaps are. In doing so, New
from its citizens by education of the sustainable way York City has developed a tool that it intends to share
of living – reducing, reusing, and recycling. Despite with other cities. It is also the first city to submit to the
a rapidly growing population, the amount of waste United Nations a Voluntary Local Review on progress
to landfill is diminishing each year. Guadalajara has in the implementation of the SDGs, setting an example
a similar story to tell: it resorts to a metropolitan for other cities to follow.
approach to planning for its nine municipalities. In
the design phase, the city undertook a four-month The third stream placed its focus on the elements
consultation process providing the local residents with that make a city inclusive. Presenting in this stream
opportunities to voice their concerns and opinions. were Yiwu, Kazan, Santa Ana, and Mezitli. Yiwu
Experts were involved to explain complex issues and is home to the world’s largest wholesale market
provide professional advice. This approach resulted of consumer goods and thus has attracted a lot of
on Latin America’s first metropolitan plan that has foreigners to do business in the city. To provide
been legislated. While citizen engagement is key, better service to its international residents, the city
Utrecht also looks to connect more businesses and has launched several program, one of which is a
grassroot organizations in localizing the Sustainable foreign citizen card that allows them access to public
Development Goals (SDGs). The city boasts an services as the locals do. Yiwu has also adopted an
unprecedented 30 percent of its population that is unprecedented policy of enabling foreign residents
aware and knowledgeable about the SDGs and seeks to serve as mediators to help resolve trade related
to increase this proportion to 70 percent. The city is conflicts. Kazan enjoys a diversity of cultures as well
cooperating with and learning from a network of SDG as religions. The city has successfully capitalized on
cities, including New York City. What the Big Apple this diversity to promote inclusion as well as on the
does in this regard is to map and monitor the city’s hosting of international sports events to improve its
existing sustainability plan to the SDGs. This allows the infrastructure. Together with a concerted advocacy
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manage its waste. The city takes on a community-based city to identify what it is already doing to implement
approach and stimulates ownership of the initiative the SDGs and where the gaps are. In doing so, New
from its citizens by education of the sustainable way York City has developed a tool that it intends to share
of living – reducing, reusing, and recycling. Despite with other cities. It is also the first city to submit to the
a rapidly growing population, the amount of waste United Nations a Voluntary Local Review on progress
to landfill is diminishing each year. Guadalajara has in the implementation of the SDGs, setting an example
a similar story to tell: it resorts to a metropolitan for other cities to follow.
approach to planning for its nine municipalities. In
the design phase, the city undertook a four-month The third stream placed its focus on the elements
consultation process providing the local residents with that make a city inclusive. Presenting in this stream
opportunities to voice their concerns and opinions. were Yiwu, Kazan, Santa Ana, and Mezitli. Yiwu
Experts were involved to explain complex issues and is home to the world’s largest wholesale market
provide professional advice. This approach resulted of consumer goods and thus has attracted a lot of
on Latin America’s first metropolitan plan that has foreigners to do business in the city. To provide
been legislated. While citizen engagement is key, better service to its international residents, the city
Utrecht also looks to connect more businesses and has launched several program, one of which is a
grassroot organizations in localizing the Sustainable foreign citizen card that allows them access to public
Development Goals (SDGs). The city boasts an services as the locals do. Yiwu has also adopted an
unprecedented 30 percent of its population that is unprecedented policy of enabling foreign residents
aware and knowledgeable about the SDGs and seeks to serve as mediators to help resolve trade related
to increase this proportion to 70 percent. The city is conflicts. Kazan enjoys a diversity of cultures as well
cooperating with and learning from a network of SDG as religions. The city has successfully capitalized on
cities, including New York City. What the Big Apple this diversity to promote inclusion as well as on the
does in this regard is to map and monitor the city’s hosting of international sports events to improve its
existing sustainability plan to the SDGs. This allows the infrastructure. Together with a concerted advocacy
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