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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
Partner Events
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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 actions
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Cities on the Frontline: Cities on the road to COP27
As COP27 approaches, global attention focuses on the urgent commitments needed to address the unfolding challenges of climate change. Cities
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Cities on the Frontline: Small Businesses for Urban Resilience
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), essential drivers of economic and social well-being in cities, have been disproportionately affected and have
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Cities on the Frontline: Data for Climate Action: The Resilient Sydney Platform
Australia’s recent experience of intense bushfires, storms, flooding and heat is driving increasingly urgent city action to address the climate
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Cities on the Frontline: Urban Violence - Intervening for Equity
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, many North American cities are facing higher rates of violence across the board
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The World Bank implements the “Global Environment Facility 6--China Sustainable Cities Integrated Approach Pilot” Project (GEF6 China SCIAP)”, which aims
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French Development Agency Day of Exchanges: Nature in the City
In a world where all ecosystems are rapidly deteriorating in the face of expanding urban areas and climate change, The
