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Planning

The Making of Sustainable Cities: GEF-6 Sustainable Cities Integrated Approach Pilot (SC-IAP) – Insights and Lessons

A decade of lessons from the GEF-6 Sustainable Cities Program and its impact on future urban development.

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Climate

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.

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NatureX

Filter Garden. Treatment Impact: The Case of Caiara Park

Two years after completion, Recife's GEF-6 filtering garden continues to improve water quality and demonstrate the long-term value of nature-based solutions

Nature-positive cities A conceptual framework

How can cities become nature-positive? This paper explores pathways to integrate biodiversity, climate, and well-being into urban planning and investment.

Cool Cities Lab

Cool Cities Lab is an open-source data platform to help cities better understand and respond to urban heat risks.

Compendium for City Good Practice Series: How Guangzhou Balances Nature Conservation And Urban Development In The Rapid Urbanization

Discover how Guangzhou integrates ecological planning, green infrastructure, and ecosystem restoration to balance rapid urban growth with biodiversity…

Advancing Green and Blue Infrastructure for Konya, Türkiye

A practical framework for using green and blue infrastructure to strengthen climate resilience and guide nature-based urban development in Konya, Türkiye.

Exploring nature-positive buildings

This report shows built environment sector stakeholders the first steps towards assessing the ‘whole-life nature impacts’ of buildings.

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.

Note on Nature Finance Tracking Methodology

The methodology helps the World Bank identify nature‑positive finance and supports outcome‑based tracking aligned with global biodiversity goals.

A Playbook for Nature-positive Infrastructure Development

Infrastructure drives biodiversity loss and emissions, demanding a fundamental shift toward designs that restore ecosystems and enable net‑zero development.

Unlocking Blue Carbon Development: Investment Readiness Framework for Governments

The paper helps governments catalyse Blue Carbon investment through readiness checklists across data, policy, institutions, and finance pillars.