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During this session at the Cities Summit of the Americas in Denver, leaders and experts shared perspectives on successful nature-based solutions in Latin American cities, as well as strategies to increase financing for resilience efforts.
This guide from the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance details how Project Preparation Facilities can best assist smaller cities in accessing financing for climate infrastructure projects.
In this publication, UNEP and the Penn Institute for Urban Research outline gaps and opportunities for financing Nature-based Solutions in cities, best practices from around the world, and actions that can be taken to scale up investments in nature.
This report explores innovative financial instruments for climate action and nature conservation, with a focus on Green Climate Fund's catalytic approaches and blending mechanisms for maximum impact.
This report from the World Bank highlights the need to integrate low-carbon urbanization into countries’ national climate change strategies and outlines the opportunities to bridge between national decarbonization and urban development goals.
This report reviews global nature finance to map pathways for Bangladesh, focusing on overcoming barriers like NbS novelty, local specifics, low returns, complex benefits, and policy shortcomings to build private markets for adaptation.
At this three-day workshop, city and national officials from Latin America shared their experiences and discussed approaches and mechanisms for financing local climate adaptation.
UrbanShift's inaugural annual report serves as an inspiring portfolio of the program's first year in action as well as a handbook for our strategy to achieve sustainable, low-carbon growth in more than 23 cities across three continents.
UrbanShift led and participated in crucial discussions around climate finance, multi-level governance, and nature-based approaches in Sharm el-Sheikh, providing our stakeholders with a space to share their climate goals and challenges.
As climate change impacts are experienced across the globe, the message that greenhouse gas emissions must fall is unambiguous. Yet UNEP's annual Emissions Gap Report finds that the international community is falling far short of the Paris goals.