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Scaling Green Infrastructure for a Resilient Rwanda
As climate risks intensify across African cities, nature-based solutions (NBS) and green-gray infrastructure (GGI) are emerging as critical tools for building urban resilience. When strategically designed and implemented, these interventions reduce vulnerability to floods and heat, restore ecosystems, enhance biodiversity, and generate tangible social, economic, and public health benefits. According to a 2025 World Resources Institute (WRI) report, new NBS initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa grew at an average annual rate of 15% between 2012 and 2021—signaling strong momentum and growing
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Supporting Green Infrastructure Planning in Cities: Tools, Data Needs, and City Perspectives
31 March - 31 March 2026, 8:30 EDT
Background Introduction Agenda Presentation Recording The Urban Nature Program , co-led by the World Bank through its Global Platform for Sustainable Cities (GPSC), with support from the GEF, UNEP, and ICLEI, aims to scale up financing to help cities and sub-national governments implement actionsPast events
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Cities on the Frontline Speaker Series: Energy Resilience Across the Resilient Cities Network
Electricity plays a pivotal role in the expansion and development of cities and is an integral part of urban life
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In December 2022, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was signed at the 15th Conference of Parties (COP-15) to the
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Cities on the Frontline: Building Water Resilience
Increasing population, rapid urbanization and extreme events have made cities around the world vulnerable to water related risks like floods
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Extreme weather events are among the most dangerous shocks that plague cities and are becoming increasingly common as a result
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Cities on the Frontline. Urban Eats: Cities Tackling Food Resilience
The economic recession and supply chain-disruption caused by Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the global fallout from the Ukrainian war
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Paris, France
Deep-dive learning and knowledge sharing The second deep-dive learning took place in Paris from November 28 to December 1, 2022
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