An Investment Planning Tool for Green Cities
The APEX App enables cities to forecast resource use, assess green investments, and plan energy, water, waste, and transport improvements.News & Blogs
Building green is good business
Construction drives high emissions, but green building technologies and financing can cut impacts, reduce costs, and support sustainable development.News & Blogs
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.Knowledge Product
Exploring nature-positive buildings
This report shows built environment sector stakeholders the first steps towards assessing the ‘whole-life nature impacts’ of buildings.Knowledge Product
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.Knowledge Product
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.Knowledge Product
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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.Knowledge Product
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.Knowledge Product
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.Knowledge Product
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.Knowledge Product
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Making Cities Green, Resilient, and Inclusive in a Changing Climate
The report examines how climate shocks compound urban stresses and offers policymakers guidance for greener, resilient, inclusive development strategies.Knowledge Product
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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.Knowledge Product
Cities and Nature: Planning for the Future
UN‑Habitat’s white paper guides cities to integrate nature through spatial planning and a spectrum‑based method for prioritizing interventions.Knowledge Product
Biodiversity in Cities - Technical Guide
AFD’s guide promotes context‑specific nature‑based urban design, helping cities integrate biodiversity to improve resilience, equity, and livability.Knowledge Product
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.Knowledge Product
Denser and greener cities: Green interventions to achieve both urban density and nature
New evidence shows cities can be both green and dense when they adopt effective urban green interventions and planning choices.Knowledge Product
