COVID-19 Pandemic and Sustainable Urban Transformation: Perspectives on City-Level Actions and a Framework for the Future

Cities were at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic due to the concentration of affected populations and economic activities that needed to be revived to support global recovery.

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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

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Municipal Solid Waste Cost Calculation Technical Guidelines for Low and Middle-Income Countries

Municipal Solid Waste Cost Calculation Technical Guidelines discusses good practices for calculating investment and operating costs in the solid waste management sector illustrated through notion

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Advancing the Integrated Approach to Tackle Commodity-driven Deforestation

In 2014 the Global Environment Facility launched an ambitious effort to influence a shift in supply chains for beef, soy, and palm oil towards reduced-deforestation production,

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Note on Nature Finance Tracking Methodology

International Development Association (IDA) participants requested that the World Bank develop a methodology to identify, monitor, and track nature-positive World Bank investme

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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

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

Climate change - and efforts to mitigate and adapt to it - will affect global flows of trade and Indonesia’s ability to transition to a more environmentally sustainable economy on its path to bec

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Nature as Infrastructure

Nature as infrastructure has the potential to be a transformative concept for development. It goes beyond nature-based solutions or mitigating the impact of human development on nature.

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

Scaling funding to effective nature-based solutions (NbS) for adaptation is key to tackle climate change and support sustainable development.

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Healthy Cities: Revisiting the Role of Cities in Promoting Health

The Healthy Cities Report aims to provide policymakers and development practitioners with an action-oriented framework for achieving healthy cities.

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A Playbook for Nature-positive Infrastructure Development

Infrastructure is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss. For example, 95% of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is within 5 km of a road.

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Unlocking Blue Carbon Development: Investment Readiness Framework for Governments

The purpose of this paper is to provide a practical framework to guide governments in catalyzing and scaling up public and private investment in Blue Carbon as part of their blue economy developm

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Nature-based Solutions to Build Climate Resilience in Informal Areas

This strategy paper draws from existing research and practical project experience applying nature-based solutions (NBS) for adaptation and building climate resilience in inform

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Behavior Change in Solid Waste Management - A Compendium of Cases

Today the world faces unprecedented challenges in waste management while the state of the municipal waste management sector globally is a matter of concern.

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

This guide is about how to plan and implement the new global target for effectively and equitably conserving at least 30% of the Earth by 2030.

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Nature-Based Solutions for Cities

We are living in the urban century, one where urbanization is driving multiple global environmental changes that in turn place stress and cause major disturbances to urban life

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Urban Flood Risk Handbook: Assessing Risk and Identifying Interventions

This Urban Flood Risk Handbook: Assessing Risk and Identifying Interventions is a roadmap for conducting an urban flood risk assessment in any city in the world.

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

Nature-based solutions (NBS) have gained traction in recent years because of their potential to promote sustainable development and reduce disaster risks.

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

As part of a series of publications to help financial institutions understand the relevance and implications of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), this b

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Making Cities Green, Resilient, and Inclusive in a Changing Climate

Globally, 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions emanate from cities.

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