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

Planning

The Making of Sustainable Cities: GEF-6 Sustainable Cities Integrated Approach Pilot (SC-IAP) – Insights and Lessons

A decade of lessons from the GEF-6 Sustainable Cities Program and its impact on future urban development.

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

Note on Nature Finance Tracking Methodology

The methodology helps the World Bank identify nature‑positive finance and supports outcome‑based tracking aligned with global biodiversity goals.

Toward Developing a Mobility and Gender Index

Limited sex‑disaggregated data hinders gender‑inclusive mobility; the World Bank’s Mobility and Gender Index develops a framework to resolve this.

Trading Towards Sustainability: The Role of Trade Policies in Indonesia’s Green Transformation

The report analyzes how trade and policy reforms in environmental goods and plastic substitutes can support Indonesia’s green transition.

Nature as Infrastructure

The note argues nature is essential infrastructure and warns its degradation poses an existential risk requiring urgent reversal.

Financing Nature-Based Solutions for Adaptation at Scale: Learning from Specialised Investment Managers and Nature Funds

The report reviews global nature‑finance trends, identifying barriers and opportunities to scale investment in NbS for climate adaptation and resilience.

Healthy Cities: Revisiting the Role of Cities in Promoting Health

The Healthy Cities Report provides a framework and recommendations to help policymakers advance healthier cities through targeted and integrated action.

A Playbook for Nature-positive Infrastructure Development

Infrastructure drives biodiversity loss and emissions, demanding a fundamental shift toward designs that restore ecosystems and enable net‑zero development.

Unlocking Blue Carbon Development: Investment Readiness Framework for Governments

The paper helps governments catalyse Blue Carbon investment through readiness checklists across data, policy, institutions, and finance pillars.

Nature-based Solutions to Build Climate Resilience in Informal Areas

The paper examines opportunities, challenges, and best practices for scaling nature‑based solutions to build climate resilience in informal urban areas.

Behavior Change in Solid Waste Management - A Compendium of Cases

The compendium uses behavioral insights to help communities reduce waste, improve service use, and encourage sustainable waste practices.