Good Practice Guide: Cool Cities (Mandarin)

This Good Practice Guide focuses on the key elements to support cities in the launch and implementation of successful cool surface programs, leading to better economic, social, and environmental ou

Good Practice Guide: Cool Cities (English)

This Good Practice Guide focuses on the key elements to support cities in the launch and implementation of successful cool surface programs, leading to better economic, social, and environmental ou

How to finance urban infrastructure? C40 Cities Finance Facility

City governments around the world are struggling to finance urgently needed urban infrastructure.

Urban Climate Action Impacts Framework

This document presents an Urban Climate Action Impacts Framework that can be applied when exploring the wider impact of city climate action.

Deadline 2020: How Cities Will Get the Job Done (French)

An analysis of the contribution C40 cities can make to delivering the Paris Agreement objective of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees.

Deadline 2020: How Cities Will Get the Job Done (English)

An analysis of the contribution C40 cities can make to delivering the Paris Agreement objective of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees.

Boosting subnational climate action through new climate governance

National, local and other subnational governments need to work together to track performance and implement effective, coordinated climate action, with the aim to progressively raise local, national

Bulgaria Spending Review - Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness of Waste Management Spending

Health, Safety and Dignity of Sanitation Workers : An Initial Assessment

The Power of Dung: Lessons Learned from On-Farm Biodigester Programs in Africa

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Technical Assistance for Awareness Raising and Public Education on Solid Waste Management: Campaign Handbook (Bosnian)

CHONGQING 2035

Each part of the Chongqing 2035 report is downloadable below.

Seoul's Experience in Cultural Heritage Sustainable Tourism and Urban Regeneration

TOD Implementation Resources and Tools

Transit-oriented development, commonly known as TOD, is a planning and design strategy that focuses on creating urban development patterns which facilitate the use of public transit,walking and cyc

Catalyzing Solutions for Sustainable Cities

Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Tourism and Urban Regeneration: Capturing Lessons and Experience from Japan with a Focus on Kyoto

The State of African Cities 2018: The geography of African investment

The aim of The State of African Cities 2018: The geography of African investment report is to contribute to development policie

Multilevel climate action: The path to 1.5 degrees

This is a synthesis report of data from the carbonn Climate Registry.

Opportunity 2030: Benefits of Climate Action in Cities

This reports provides an approach to quantify the benefits of city-level measures in buildings, transport and energy supply.

Summary for Policy Makers: What the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 C Degrees Mean for Cities

The Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C identifies cities and urban areas as one of four critical global systems that can accelerate and upscale climate action, but recognizes this will requi