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

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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Nature

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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Knowledge Resources
Explore the GPSC’s constantly growing library of knowledge resources, curated from cities across the world.

Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Tourism and Urban Regeneration: Capturing Lessons and Experience from Japan with a Focus on Kyoto

The report draws lessons from Kyoto’s heritage‑based urban development, showing how cultural preservation, regeneration, and tourism can support inclusive…

The State of African Cities 2018: The geography of African investment

The aim of The State of African Cities 2018: The geography of African investment report is to contribute to development

Multilevel climate action: The path to 1.5 degrees

This is a synthesis report of data from the carbonn Climate Registry. It looks at subnational alignment with the 1.5-degree

EO4SD-Urban Project: Lima City Report

GPSC is providing cities with urban extent imagery to facilitate a finer-grained understanding of urban expansion. This GPSC knowledge product

EO4SD-Urban Project: Saint Louis City Report

GPSC is providing cities with urban extent imagery to facilitate a finer-grained understanding of urban expansion. This GPSC knowledge product

EO4SD-Urban Project: Dakar City Report

GPSC is providing cities with urban extent imagery to facilitate a finer-grained understanding of urban expansion. This GPSC knowledge product

EO4SD-Urban Project: Campeche City Report

GPSC provides Campeche with ESA‑supported imagery through EO4SD‑Urban, delivering user‑driven geospatial products that improve analysis and understanding of…

EO4SD-Urban Project: Abidjan City Report

GPSC provides cities with ESA‑supported urban extent imagery, delivering user‑driven geospatial products to improve understanding of urban expansion.

Opportunity 2030: Benefits of Climate Action in Cities

This reports provides an approach to quantify the benefits of city-level measures in buildings, transport and energy supply. Evidence from

Summary for Policy Makers: What the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 C Degrees Mean for Cities

The Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C identifies cities and urban areas as one of four critical global systems