素帕猜•巴尼巴迪
联合国贸易和发展会议秘书长
Supachai PANITCHPAKDI
Secretary-General, U.N. Conference on Trade and Development
Statement by
Supachai Panitchpakdi,
Secretary-General of UNCTAD
Summit Forum on “Urban Innovation and Sustainable Development”
Shanghai, 31 October, 2010
素帕猜•巴尼巴迪演讲稿
联合国贸易和发展会议秘书长
“城市创新与可持续发展”
上海高峰论坛 2010年10月31日
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen:
尊敬的各位来宾，女士们、先生们：
It is my pleasure to be here today. Let me first of all thank the Executive Committee of the Expo and the Municipal Government of Shanghai, for the outstanding organization of this forum. It is a great privilege for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), to be a part of this important event.
今天很高兴来到这里。首先，请允许我为本届世博论坛的成功举办向世博会执委会及上海市市政府表示最诚挚的谢意。联合国贸易和发展会议能成为这一盛事的合作伙伴之一，万分荣幸。
With more than half the global population living in cities, our experience of the world is becoming predominantly urban. The fastest growing and the largest cities are today found in the developing world, especially Asia and Africa. The aspirations of these new-comers to cities include better job opportunities, education, healthcare, access to services such as reliable power supply, safe drinking water, sanitation and transport systems, culture and entertainment. These aspirations pose enormous challenges to city planners in many developing countries, and we are all familiar with the many problems that characterise today’s urban conglomerates: pollution of air and water resources, noise, congestion and the urban slum - a hallmark of poverty and degradation.
目前，超过半数的世界人口居住在城市，我们所生活的世界正日趋城市化。当今增长速度最快、规模最大的城市出现在发展中国家，特别是亚洲和非洲国家。城市新入居民对城市的期望包括更好的就业机会、教育、医疗及可靠的供电、安全的饮用水、环境卫生、交通系统、文化和娱乐等服务。这些愿望给许多发展中国家的城市规划者带来了巨大的挑战。而我们都熟知当今体现城市聚拢化的很多问题，这些问题包括：空气污染、水污染、噪音污染、交通拥挤及体现一个城市贫困及落后的现象等。
As Albert Einstein once said, "we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them". The threat of global climate change, water and energy shortages, for example, requires a new approach to urban development. Urban planners can make cities more eco-efficient and liveable by planning and investing in building construction, housing, spatial planning, transport, energy, communications, environment, water and sanitation systems. This “new integrated way of doing things” is increasingly made possible by innovations in the field of information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as geographic information systems and remote sensing technologies. These technologies hold the promise to transform our cities into “smart cities”, and change city planning and design in fundamental ways, from managing traffic and congestion in real time, to monitoring energy consumption and distribution, and to changing the way people learn, work, communicate and live. The much touted greater London congestion charging scheme, for example, has reduced congestion by 21% as well as reduced carbon emissions. The scheme would not have been possible without advanced applications in ICTs, such as short range communications, satellite navigation systems, and smart electronic payment systems.
