Events
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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 Speaker Series: Urban Heat: Cities Taking Action
Cities are heating up at twice the rate of global average warming due to the urban heat island effect and
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Cities on the Frontline. A Roadmap to Resilience: Cities Planning and Adapting to Climate Change
To deliver on their climate goals and respond to their urban resilience challenges, cities have undertaken an iterative and collaborative
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Land Pooling/Readjustment: An Alternative to Compulsory Land Acquisition (Facilitated)
This course aims to assist policy makers and practitioners to understand the general concepts and empirical applications of land readjustment
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Cities on the Frontline Speaker Series. Creating Resilient Cities: The Role of Play in Planning
Play is essential for children’s health, physical and emotional growth, and intellectual and educational development while also helping children to
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Cities on the Frontline. From Theory to Practice: Partnerships to fund Resilience Implementation
With more than half of the world’s population living in urban areas, a number that is expected to reach 70
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First Deep Dive Learning Theme 1: Greening Cities – Integrating urban greening and ecology into city and neighborhood planning &
