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.
NatureX
The briefing explains how the GBF applies to banks, outlining risks, opportunities, and actions to prepare for emerging requirements.
The UNI helps cities measure ecological performance through science‑based indicators and a web platform that supports transparency, action and reporting.
The report guides investors on managing biodiversity risks, identifying opportunities, and preparing for forthcoming policy and disclosure requirements.
The report outlines effective options for achieving the GBF’s 30x30 target and offering practical guidance for conservation implementation.
The experiment showed nature‑focused activities improve wellbeing, demonstrating citizen science can intentionally enhance engagement pathways.
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.
Biodiversity in Cities - Technical Guide
AFD’s guide promotes context‑specific nature‑based urban design, helping cities integrate biodiversity to improve resilience, equity, and livability.
Denser and greener cities: Green interventions to achieve both urban density and nature
New evidence shows cities can be both green and dense when they adopt effective urban green interventions and planning choices.
Summary - Towards an IUCN Nature-Positive Approach: a Working Paper
IUCN is developing a quantitative, rights‑based methodology to measure nature‑positive progress, helping to assess risks, set targets, and guide action.
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.
