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Building connections to support sustainability across the world's cities
The role of cities in addressing environmental challenges is both critical and transformative. By 2050, 75 percent of the global population is expected to live in urban areas, creating immense pressures on resources, infrastructure, and ecosystems. Amid these challenges, the UrbanShift initiative, funded by the Global Environment Facility, links and amplifies the efforts of complementary global programs using an integrated approach to create the sustainable, low-carbon, and nature-positive cities that we need. Decarbonizing cities to mitigate climate change Cities are
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Experts take first step towards GEF-9 replenishment
With less than five years on the clock to meet key international environmental targets, experts gathered this week to discuss strategic choices that can make a lasting positive difference for people and the planet. The Technical Advisory Group meetings were the formal start of the Global Environment Facility’s ninth replenishment process, which will set the framework, size, and ambition of GEF funding provided to developing countries in the July 2026 to June 2030 period. Environmental scientists, technical experts, and practitioners
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Chsimdi Chukwu, a 24-year-old woman from Lagos, collects and sells plastics for a living in Olusosun, a local dumpsite roughly the size of 60 soccer fields. She
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This project is helping to move China’s emerging megacities off of a high-polluting car-oriented trajectory by applying eight low carbon design principles
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For the first time in human history, there are more people on our planet over the age of sixty-five than there are children under the age of five. Also for the
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Article originally published on shiftcities.org Africa is regarded as the world’s most rapidly urbanizing region: the percentage of Africans living in urban
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By 2050, cities will be home to an additional 2.5 billion people, with two out of every three people living in urban areas. The mounting impacts of climate
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The GPSC welcomes a new partner to its network: Malaysia International Centre for Sustainable Cities (MyICSC) MyICSC is an initiative to encourage smart city
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Explore the GPSC Newsletter to discover how cities worldwide are advancing integrated, resilient, and nature-positive urban development through innovation
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Wanjiku, now 77, still remembers clearly the day that she first saw the sites and services plot that was assigned to her. She had been living in an informal
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If you ever had the chance to visit beautiful Buenos Aires, you probably used its large and far-reaching public transport system, which includes 800 km of
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On December 29, 2021, the Guangdong Engineer “Yangcheng Action” - “Yangcheng Craftsman Cup” 2021 Guangzhou TOD Integrated Development and Innovation Contest
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