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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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GPSC Newsletter - February 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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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
Urban transport planners often tend to underappreciate the value of cycling and its potential as a complement to public transport
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Can Nature-Based Solutions Be an Answer to the Climate Crisis?
Perched on the coastline of the Indian Ocean, set amidst a backdrop of soaring office blocks, colonial buildings, temples and
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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
Explore the GPSC Newsletter to discover how cities worldwide are advancing integrated, resilient, and nature-positive urban development through innovation,…
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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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Issue 13 - 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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