in the europe and north america region most countries already implement nups in contrast about per cent of the countries in africa and asia and the pacific are currently in the stage of developing nups however the data show that some fasturbanising global regions such as the arab states are making serious efforts to put urbanisation on national agendas meanwhile attention to climate change resilience and environmental sustainability is weakest only per cent of nups give extensive attention to climate change resilience and per cent to environmental sustainability