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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.

Biodiversity in Cities - Technical Guide

In order to respond to the challenges and growing demand of counterparts, partners and populations to better integrate nature in

Cities and Nature: Planning for the Future

In preparation for the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to adopt the Global

Open Spaces for All

Open spaces are essential resources for public health and the environment: they provide places for recreation, cultural enrichment, learning, exercise

State of Finance for Nature 2022

The State of Finance for Nature is a series that aims to quantify public and private finance flows to nature-based

She Rises: a Framework for Caring Cities

This document unpacks the elements of a city that places the economics and ethics of care at the centre. The

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

Denser and greener cities: Green interventions to achieve both urban density and nature

Green spaces in urban areas supply multiple benefits, however, this was thought to come at the cost of density. New

Summary - Towards an IUCN Nature-Positive Approach: a Working Paper

To deliver a nature-positive future the world needs to be able to measure progress towards global goals, but currently lacks

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

World Cities Report 2022: Envisaging the Future of Cities

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 created a temporary crisis of confidence in the future of cities. However