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Featuring voices from cities, experts, and partners, these stories of innovation and impact are drawn from across the GPSC’s global network. News and blogs showcase progress, lessons, and thought leadership on sustainable urban development.

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From Silos to Systems for Livable Cities: Embracing nature and biodiversity

Indonesian cities are integrating climate resilience, biodiversity, and infrastructure planning to support more livable and sustainable urban development.
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The Wetland Advantage: Nature-Based Solutions Power Rwanda’s Urban Future

Kigali is restoring urban wetlands to reduce flooding, improve biodiversity, support jobs and tourism, and strengthen long-term city resilience.
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Transforming our cities: a collective path to sustainability

The Sustainable Cities Program supports integrated planning, innovation, and financing to advance resilient, low‑carbon, and nature‑positive development.
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Mongolia Launches GEF-8 Sustainable Cities Project to Advance Green and Inclusive Urban Development

The initiative supports integrated planning, nature-based solutions, and innovative urban finance to build greener, more resilient cities in Ulaanbaatar, Darkhan, and Erdenet.
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Cities Advance Green Urban Infrastructure and Urban Nature Tourism at GPSC City Academy in Samarkand

The Academy brought together participants from over 20 countries to develop city action plans and advance nature-positive urban development.
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Working on Gender Equality - One House at a Time
Women world over continue to face cultural, socio-economic and legal inequalities that prevent their full participation in society. They are
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GPSC Newsletter - February 2022
Spotlighting global innovation and leadership as cities advance integrated, resilient, nature‑positive development through collective climate‑smart action.
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PANORAMA: Solutions for a Healthy Planet
PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet is a partnership initiative to document and promote examples of inspiring, replicable solutions
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Bicycles and Public Transport: the Perfect Match
Integrating cycling with mass transit expands access, improves flexibility, boosts health, and supports cleaner mobility when supported by infrastructure.
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Can Nature-Based Solutions Be an Answer to the Climate Crisis?
Colombo restores and protects urban wetlands to reduce flooding, enhance biodiversity, improve public spaces, and integrate nature‑based solutions into…
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Issue 14 - Quarterly Newsletter on GEF China Sustainable Cities Integrated Approach Pilot Project
This project is helping to move China’s emerging megacities off of a high-polluting car-oriented trajectory by applying eight low carbon
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New Portal by World Bank on Nature-Based Solutions (NBS)
The new website, run by the Global Program on Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Resilience, showcases the World Bank’s efforts to
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Cutting Global Carbon Emissions: Where Do Cities Stand?
COP26 may be in our rearview mirror, but the reality that it underscored is not. The Glasgow Pact, a result
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GPSC Newsletter - December 2021
Spotlighting global innovation and leadership as cities advance integrated, resilient, nature‑positive development through collective climate‑smart action.
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The Green Infrastructure Framework for England
Natural England has launched its Green Infrastructure Framework. The Framework provides an England-wide evidence base to help local authorities and
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