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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.

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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.

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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 aims to provide policymakers and development practitioners with an action-oriented framework for achieving healthy cities. Informed…

Piloting Nature-based Solutions for Urban Cooling

Reducing excess urban heat and protecting populations from extreme temperatures is one of the 21st century’s key resilience and sustainability

Ending Global Sprawl: Urban Standards for Sustainable and Resilient Development

The health and wellbeing of humankind will depend on the kind of cities we build in the next two generations

C4B 1st Deep-Dive Learning: Greening Cities - Summary Report

Cities4Biodiversity (C4B) participants convened in April 2022 to explore the first of a series of themes critical to the purpose

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

Municipal solid waste contributes to the generation of GHGs, mainly methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2). The amount of GHG

Gender and Sustainable Cities

Climate change is set to exacerbate existing inequalities, disproportionately affecting the urban poor and women.

Guidance Note. Community Participation in Slum Upgrading

This Note promotes participatory slum upgrading by guiding World Bank teams in supporting government-led initiatives to effectively integrate community…

COVID-19 Vaccination and Municipal Waste Management. Technical Brief

This report shows that while vaccination is one of the most effective public health interventions—preventing 4–5 million deaths annually—the scale

Urban Nature and Biodiversity for Cities. Policy Brief

One important way for urban leaders to rise to today’s challenges is to bring biodiversity and nature into urban design