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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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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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CircularX

What a Waste 3.0: Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management Toward Circularity until 2050

What a Waste 3.0 updates global municipal waste data, detailing generation, management, policies, impacts, and trends across countries and cities.

Municipal Solid Waste Cost Calculation Technical Guidelines for Low and Middle-Income Countries

The guidelines help municipalities calculate full waste service costs to plan financing, sustain operations, and guide investment decisions.

Behavior Change in Solid Waste Management - A Compendium of Cases

The compendium uses behavioral insights to help communities reduce waste, improve service use, and encourage sustainable waste practices.

Best Practices and Lessons Learned: My Neighborhood Without Waste

Asunción lacks segregated waste collection, creating environmental, social and safety challenges.

Clean and Low-Carbon Cities: the Relationship Between the Solid Waste Management Sector and Greenhouse Gases

The briefing explains how rising waste volumes drive GHG emissions and outlines actions to reduce waste and improve management.

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.

More Growth, Less Garbage

The report shows global waste will keep rising but highlights case studies proving economic growth can decouple from waste.

Bridging the Gap in Solid Waste Management: Governance Requirements for Results

The paper offers practical guidance to help authorities strengthen solid waste governance despite fiscal constraints and limited capacities.

Market Study for the Philippines: Plastics Circularity Opportunities and Barriers

Mismanaged plastic waste harms economies and oceans, prompting Philippine plans to improve recycling, circularity, and private‑sector investment.

Market Study for Malaysia: Plastics Circularity Opportunities and Barriers

Plastics are integral to Malaysia’s economy, but waste poses risks, prompting this study’s assessment of the national plastics value chain.