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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 global cities with integrated planning, innovation, financing, and partnerships to advance resilient, low‑carbon, and nature‑positive urban development.
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New US$ 5.2 million initiative to advance sustainability solutions for Nairobi

Learn how Nairobi is advancing low-carbon, climate-resilient, and nature-positive urban development through integrated neighborhood planning.
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Inception Workshop Launches Sustainable City Project in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region

The inception workshop launched a GEF‑8 initiative in the BTH region, uniting ministries and cities to advance integrated low‑carbon development.
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The Climate Action Agenda: Why a people-centered approach to mobility matters
When it comes to action on climate change in the transport sector, women and men have different travel behavior. Statistics
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Supporting a Breath of Fresh Air for Lagos
Chsimdi Chukwu, a 24-year-old woman from Lagos, collects and sells plastics for a living in Olusosun, a local dumpsite roughly
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Issue 16 - 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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Rethinking silver: Lessons from Japan’s age-ready cities
For the first time in human history, there are more people on our planet over the age of sixty-five than
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Kigali: Path Toward Green Climate Resilient Growth
Article originally published on shiftcities.org Africa is regarded as the world’s most rapidly urbanizing region: the percentage of Africans living
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Investing in cities today is the key for a resilient future
By 2050, cities will be home to an additional 2.5 billion people, with two out of every three people living
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Malaysia International Centre for Sustainable Cities (MyICSC): Gateway to Sustainability
The GPSC welcomes a new partner to its network: Malaysia International Centre for Sustainable Cities (MyICSC) MyICSC is an initiative
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GPSC Newsletter - June 2022
Explore the GPSC Newsletter to discover how cities worldwide are advancing integrated, resilient, and nature-positive urban development through innovation,…
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Expanding Africa’s Housing Policy Options: A Second Generation of Sites and Services
Wanjiku, now 77, still remembers clearly the day that she first saw the sites and services plot that was assigned
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Better Trains to Decarbonize Urban Mobility in Greater Buenos Aires
If you ever had the chance to visit beautiful Buenos Aires, you probably used its large and far-reaching public transport
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