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Climate

The city-industry-climate nexus: Cities as engines of global net-zero transitions in a shifting world

By 2050, almost two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities, which already consume most of the world’s energy and emit the majority of greenhouse gases. This makes urban areas central to both the causes of climate change and the solutions. The white paper argues that decarbonizing cities is not only environmental policy, but a strategic industrial agenda. It introduces the “city-industry-climate nexus,” where infrastructure, production systems, value chains, and climate action converge. Cities host the industries that supply

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Nature

Compendium for City Good Practice Series: How Paris Is Leveraging Nature For Climate Resilience

This report, as part of the Compendium for City Good Practice series, highlights Paris's innovative approach to climate resilience through the strategic integration of nature into urban environments. It offers a comprehensive overview of Paris's strategy on urban nature, showcasing how the city is integrating biodiversity into planning, leveraging green spaces, biodiversity corridors, and sustainable landscaping to mitigate the impacts of climate change. The report serves as a valuable resource for cities worldwide seeking to emulate Paris's successful model of

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Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Resources and Tools

This toolkit provides a compendium of resources for Transit-Oriented Development stakeholders to navigate each phase of the TOD process: Assessing

Lagos Resilience Strategy

The Lagos Resilience Strategy is the State’s first urban resilience strategy document and it articulates an integrated approach to addressing

Nature-Based Solutions: State of the Art in EU-Funded Projects

This document summarises outcomes from the Commission individual expert reports delivered through its ‘Valorisation of NBS Projects’ initiative. EU research

National Plan for Comprehensive Urban Solid Waste Management (Spanish)

Within the framework of environmental sustainability and the processes of urbanization, privatization and decentralization, the integral management of urban solid

National Plan for the Comprehensive Management of Hazardous Waste (Spanish)

To achieve an adequate management of hazardous waste, it must be taken into account that the environmental management of waste

Municipal Waste Management - Intermediate and Minor Municipalities (Spanish)

This guide aims at establishing national policies and strategies for concrete actions at the local level. The objective is to

Municipal Waste Management - Major Municipalities (Spanish)

This guide aims at establishing national policies and strategies for concrete actions at the local level. The objective is to

Hazardous Waste Management (Spanish)

The management of hazardous waste is a fundamental part of the proper management of waste in general, which allows to

Classifying Waste (Spanish)

The objective of this guide is to establish the instruments for the development of a characterization study of urban solid