Dubai: Dubai Municipality and the Environment Centre for Arab Towns, in collaboration with Informa and Arab Towns Organisation (ATO), on Sunday launched the Future Cities Conference.

The two-day conference, held at the World Trade Centre on the sidelines of 13th edition of Cityscape 2014, is aimed at highlighting sustainable development strategies of cities and other related issues.

Having inaugurated the conference, Engineer Hussain Nasser Lootah, director-general of Dubai Municipality, said that the entire world has been facing new challenges everyday, obliging us to act wisely with utmost care and professionalism to be able to tackle them in a sustainable way ensuring a safe present and future.