GPSC Newsletter - October 2023

Explore the GPSC Newsletter to discover how cities worldwide are advancing integrated, resilient, and nature-positive urban development through innovation, leadership, and collective climate-smart

News & Blogs

Supporting Climate-Smart Infrastructure Projects – Case Studies

This publication presents six case studies—three international and three from Turkey—showcasing climate-smart infrastructure projects that promote green and resilient urban development.

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Climate Change Infrastructure Project Screening Framework (for Mitigation and Adaptation)

The Climate Change Infrastructure Project Screening Framework (for Mitigation and Adaptation) is a tool to help catalyze the next generation of investments in cities for climate-smart, green

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Planning for Transit-Oriented Development in Emerging Cities

Urbanization is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, making sustainable and efficient urban planning critical.

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

This report stems from growing concern about the threat of extreme heat in urban settings and its adverse impacts on health.

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Exploring nature-positive buildings

The built environment sector is critical to achieving a nature-positive future, as it is responsible for nearly 30% of biodiversity loss globally, 50% of global raw materials extraction, 40% of w

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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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