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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

Climate Change Infrastructure Project Screening Framework (for Mitigation and Adaptation)

The Climate Change Infrastructure Project Screening Framework (for Mitigation and Adaptation) is a tool to help catalyze the next generation of investments in cities for climate-smart, greener,…

Tool

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…

Report

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

Transport Emissions & Social Cost Assessment: Methodology Guide

The Transport Emissions & Social Cost Assessment is a project under the World Resources Institute’s Sustainable and Livable Cities Program

Governance of Inclusive Transit-Oriented Development in Brazil

Transit-oriented development (TOD)—a planning strategy focused on building compact, mixed-use neighborhoods with access to high-quality public transport and…

CURB Tool: Climate Action for Urban Sustainability (Spanish)

CURB: Climate Action for Urban Sustainability was developed by a partnership between the World Bank, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

A model for Transit Oriented Development: Curitiba, Brazil

In the mid-1960s, to keep pace with Curitiba’s surge in population, traffic congestion, and uncontrolled urban sprawl, the City shifted

Measuring, Reporting, Verification (MRV) of Urban Low Emission Development; ICLEI’s Green Climate Cities Handbook for Local Governments

Paris Agreement led onto the beginning of a new era where climate action is accelerated, coordinated and properly financed. It

Urban Transport: Can Public-Private Partnerships Work?

Cities exist, grow, and prosper because they take advantage of scale economies and specialization wrought by agglomeration. But output growth

TOD Guide for Communities

This TOD Guide for Urban Communities shares the best practice guidelines in transit oriented development around the world. This publication