Denser and greener cities: Green interventions to achieve both urban density and nature

Green spaces in urban areas supply multiple benefits, however, this was thought to come at the cost of density.

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

To deliver a nature-positive future the world needs to be able to measure progress towards global goals, but currently lacks the tools to do so.

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C4B 1st Deep-Dive Learning: Greening Cities - Summary Report

Cities4Biodiversity (C4B) participants convened in April 2022 to explore the first of a series of themes critical to the purpose of C4B – developing and supporting a network of

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World Cities Report 2022: Envisaging the Future of Cities

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 created a temporary crisis of confidence in the future of cities.

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Advancing Urban Sustainability for a Green Recovery

Cities are central to economic growth and have a pivotal role to play in achieving global climate, nature, and sustainable development goals.

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

“Banco San Miguel y Bahía de Asunción” Ecological Reserve is the city’s largest green area.

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Best Practices and Lessons Learned: Tactical Urbanism to Design Cities for People

It is estimated that around 600,000 motored vehicles enter the city of Asunción each day, adding a lot of pressure to the already dense traffic.

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Best Practices and Lessons Learned: My Neighborhood Without Waste

The first step to recover valuable waste is to sort it at the point of origin, separating recyclables from non-recyclables.

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The Urban Butterfly Effect

This is a policy brief with recommendations for national governments to accelerate urban efforts to help them achieve the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) 2030 Action Targets.

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Clean and Low-Carbon Cities: the Relationship Between the Solid Waste Management Sector and Greenhouse Gases

Municipal solid waste contributes to the generation of GHGs, mainly methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2).

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Building Back Stronger: Urban Resilience Through Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Rebuilding cities and towns after protracted conflict is a more common occurrence than many wo

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Orange is the new colour of city competitiveness: The role of local governments in promoting cultural and creative industries

Cities have the power to stimulate and harness culture, creativity and innovation for local development.

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Gender and Sustainable Cities

Climate change is set to exacerbate existing inequalities across regions and negatively impact

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Valuing the Benefit of Nature-Based Solutions for Integrated Urban Flood Management in China (Available in English and Chinese)

Such solutions have the potential to integrate natural habitats, processes, and services as part of a coherent and holistic approach to water management, particularly in the ur

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Nature-Based Solutions in Latin America and The Caribbean: Regional Status and Priorities for Growth

This paper discusses how the Latin American and Caribbean region is on the verge of a transition from experimenting with nature-based solutions (NBS) to adopting it on a much wider scale that can

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Urban Green Infrastructure II: Implementing and Monitoring (Spanish)

This publication is part of a series of three papers exploring the different aspects of urban green infrastructure solutions.

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Urban Green Infrastructure I: Challenges, Opportunities and Good Practices (Spanish)

This publication is part of a series of three papers exploring the different aspects of urban green infrastructure solutions.

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Guidance Note. Community Participation in Slum Upgrading

With its focus on community participation, this Note helps to promote participatory slum upgrading in their dialogue with the client and

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COVID-19 Vaccination and Municipal Waste Management. Technical Brief

There are over twenty serious vaccine preventable diseases with immunization estimated to

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Urban Nature and Biodiversity for Cities. Policy Brief

One important way for urban leaders to rise to today’s challenges is to bring biodiversity and nature into urban design through urban eco

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