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.
Featured Resources
A decade of lessons from the GEF-6 Sustainable Cities Program and its impact on future urban development.
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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
Knowledge Resources
Explore the GPSC’s constantly growing library of knowledge resources, curated from cities across the world.
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Toward Developing a Mobility and Gender Index
Limited sex‑disaggregated data hinders gender‑inclusive mobility; the World Bank’s Mobility and Gender Index develops a framework to resolve this.
The note explains how to use spatial data with local boundaries to calculate urban indicators across multiple environmental themes.
Primer on Urban Form and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Urban form strongly shapes emissions; compact, connected, climate‑responsive cities reduce energy use, transport demand, and infrastructure needs.
The note explains how notation keys help complete GHG inventories when emissions data are missing, unclear, or unquantifiable.
The text explains why notation keys are essential for complete GHG inventories when emissions data is missing or uncertain.
Understanding the Impact of Earth Observation for Sustainable Urban Development
The evaluation reviews EO’s contributions to sustainable urban development, assesses EO4SD‑Urban impacts, and offers evidence‑based recommendations.
Analyzing the Spatial Patterns of the Elderly's Daily Activities
Traditional planning overlooks diverse needs in ageing cities, requiring data‑driven spatial strategies to support health, accessibility and active aging.
Geospatial data and Spatial planning [Resources]
The City Academy introduces satellite data applications, sharing ESA‑supported case studies to raise awareness of geospatial tools for urban planning.
EO4SD-Urban Project: Lima City Report
GPSC provides Lima with ESA‑supported imagery through EO4SD‑Urban, offering geospatial products that improve analysis and understanding of urban expansion.
EO4SD-Urban Project: Saint-Louis City Report
GPSC provides Saint Louis with ESA‑supported urban imagery through EO4SD‑Urban, offering geospatial products that improve understanding of urban expansion.
