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C4B First Deep-Dive Learning

The deep‑dive enabled C4B cities to strengthen capacity through peer learning on integrating ecology and green infrastructure into planning.

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GPSC Mayors Round Table and Urban Nature Forum

High‑level COP30 events unite global city leaders to advance climate action, launch GEF‑8 SCIP, and promote resilient, nature‑positive urban development.

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Combating Heat in Cities: Operationalizing the Urban Heat Agenda at the World Bank

The report reviews World Bank projects to recommend ways to strengthen future heat investments.

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Exploring nature-positive buildings

This report shows built environment sector stakeholders the first steps towards assessing the ‘whole-life nature impacts’ of buildings.

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Compendium for City Good Practice Series: How Paris Is Leveraging Nature For Climate Resilience

Explore Paris's innovative approach to climate resilience through the strategic integration of nature into urban environments.

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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.

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Nature as Infrastructure

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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30x30 A Guide to Inclusive, Equitable and Effective Implementation of Target 3

The guide explains how to plan and implement Target 3 of the Global Biodiversity Framework, detailing each element and offering practical

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Integrating Gender and Social Inclusion in Nature-Based Solutions: Guidance Note

The note guides inclusive NBS design, emphasizing gender and social equity to enhance climate, environmental, and development outcomes.

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Banking on nature: What the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework means for responsible banks

The briefing explains how the GBF applies to banks, outlining risks, opportunities, and actions to prepare for emerging requirements.

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The Urban Nature Indexes

The UNI helps cities measure ecological performance through science‑based indicators and a web platform that supports transparency, action and reporting.

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Stepping Up on Biodiversity: What the Kunming‑Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework means for responsible investors

The report guides investors on managing biodiversity risks, identifying opportunities, and preparing for forthcoming policy and disclosure requirements.

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Best Practice in Delivering the 30x30 Target: Protected Areas and Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures

The report outlines effective options for achieving the GBF’s 30x30 target and offering practical guidance for conservation implementation.

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Piloting Nature-based Solutions for Urban Cooling

The World Bank and Guangzhou piloted nature‑based and design‑based urban cooling solutions, producing guidelines to support wider application.

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State of Finance for Nature 2022

The series tracks global finance for nature‑based solutions, assessing alignment with targets for climate, biodiversity, and land restoration.

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

IUCN is developing a quantitative, rights‑based methodology to measure nature‑positive progress, helping to assess risks, set targets, and guide action.

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Best Practices and Lessons Learned: Urban Orchards in a Natural Reserve

Asunción’s largest ecological reserve faces waste challenges, and communities are working with the Green City project to restore ecosystems.

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