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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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Cities on the Frontline: Resilient Health Systems: Covid-19 Year 3
On 11 March 2020 the Covid-19 crisis was declared a global pandemic by the WHO. We are now at Year
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Cities on the Frontline: City Leaders Speak, Maintaining Vision in a World with Increasing Risks
The Covid-19 pandemic has made clear that one crisis quickly begets another. The climate extremes that have been impacting cities
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Cities on the Frontline: How to Finance for Play and Placemaking in Cities
Building the city of the future requires first and foremost that children of today are empowered and prepared, not only
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More Growth, Less Garbage: Updated Waste Generation Estimates and Waste Reduction Strategies
Global waste generation is estimated to grow from 2.24 billion tons in 2020 to 3.88 billion tons in 2050. The
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Innovation for Net-Zero and Nature-Positive Cities #GPSCWebinarSeries11
The World Bank’s webinar series “ Bringing Nature to Cities: Integrated Urban Solutions to Biodiversity Loss and Climate Change” promotes
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Bridging the Gap in Solid Waste Management: Governance Requirements for Results
Bridging the Gap in Solid Waste Management by the World Bank’s Global Practice on Urban Development, Resilience & Land was
