Knowledge Products
The GPSC hosts a digital library featuring practical tools, reports, and case studies. Explore curated resources across thematic areas, filtering by topic or region to find the insights required to advance urban sustainability.
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Climate Change Infrastructure Project Screening Framework (for Mitigation and Adaptation)
This tool helps catalyzing the next generation of investments in cities for climate-smart, greener, more resilient, and inclusive urbanization.Tool
Compendium for City Good Practice Series: How Paris Is Leveraging Nature For Climate Resilience
Explore Paris's innovative approach to climate resilience through the strategic integration of nature into urban environments.
Healthy Cities: Revisiting the Role of Cities in Promoting Health
The Healthy Cities Report provides a framework and recommendations to help policymakers advance healthier cities through targeted and integrated action.
Piloting Nature-based Solutions for Urban Cooling
The World Bank and Guangzhou piloted nature‑based and design‑based urban cooling solutions, producing guidelines to support wider application.
Ending Global Sprawl: Urban Standards for Sustainable and Resilient Development
Rapid urban growth drives harmful sprawl, and this book outlines seven principles for shaping compact, equitable, resilient, and sustainable cities.
C4B 1st Deep-Dive Learning: Greening Cities - Summary Report
The report shares insights from Cities4Biodiversity’s Green Cities Deep‑Dive, highlighting policies and recommendations for expanding urban nature.
COVID-19 Vaccination and Municipal Waste Management. Technical Brief
The report explains the unprecedented scale of COVID‑19 vaccination and outlines challenges to sustaining equitable, effective global immunization.
Guidance Note. Community Participation in Slum Upgrading
The Note guides participatory slum upgrading by outlining processes, tools, and conditions for inclusive, sustained community engagement in projects.
