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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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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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Land degradation and cities: The essential role of local and regional governments

Global concern for the challenges posed by land degradation has been affirmed by target 15.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals

Greening Africa's Cities : Enhancing the Relationship between Urbanization, Environmental Assets, and Ecosystem Services

Africa is urbanizing late but fast. This brings many benefits but, as this report shows: thus far, urbanization in Africa

Infrastructure interdependencies + Climate Risks Report

The C40 Infrastructure Interdependencies + Climate Risks Report summarizes the efforts of a sample of city governments and other public

GPSC Compendium: Achieving Affordable Housing for All

Urban population is exploding and by 2030, nearly 60 percent of the world's projected 8.3 billion people will live in

GPSC Compendium: Integrated Planning for Sustainable Urban Form

Fast-growing cities face challenges of populations to shelter, huge infrastructure needs to finance, a changing climate to adapt to, and

GPSC Compendium: Strategy and Innovation for Bus Reforms in Developing Countries

In developing countries, buses are the backbone of public transit, and the poor depend on them to access employment and

GPSC Compendium: Data-informed Urban Planning

Urban planning is a powerful tool that can be harnessed to meet an area's economic, social, cultural and environmental needs

GPSC Compendium: Small-scale Municipal PPP

Small-scale public-private partnerships (PPPs) offer a number of benefits, especially where projects are developed by municipalities: they are close to

Future of the Funds: Exploring the Architecture of Multilateral Climate Finance

In recognition of the importance of public finance, the global community has established several “climate funds.” These funds are designed

Nature-based solutions for sustainable urban development

Planting trees to improve urban air quality, converting abandoned industrial sites into urban parks, greening roofs to reduce buildings’ energy