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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.
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 ofReport
Toward Developing a Mobility and Gender Index
Although the benefits of a gender-inclusive approach to mobility for transport decarbonization, access to jobs, and human capital advancement have been increasingly recognized globally, this topic has not received sufficient attention. The lack of attention to gendered mobility barriers is partly due to a limited understanding of the wider benefits of inclusive transport services for development, which is caused by the absence of sex-disaggregated mobility data highlighting gender inequalities. One of the obstacles to this gender-inclusive approach is the absence
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
Advancing Urban Sustainability for a Green Recovery
Cities are central to economic growth and have a pivotal role to play in achieving global climate, nature, and sustainable
Best Practices and Lessons Learned: My Neighborhood Without Waste
The first step to recover valuable waste is to sort it at the point of origin, separating recyclables from non-recyclables
Best Practices and Lessons Learned: Tactical Urbanism to Design Cities for People
It is estimated that around 600,000 motored vehicles enter the city of Asunción each day, adding a lot of pressure
