Confronting the Urban Housing Crisis in the Global South: Adequate, Secure, and Affordable Housing

This working paper on urban housing is the latest installment of WRI’s flagship World Resources Report (WRR), “Towards a More Equal City.” The report examines if more equitable access to core urban

Kitakyushu Model Subsector: Interplay between Solid Waste and Urban Flood Risk

CURB Tool: Climate Action for Urban Sustainability (English)

CURB: Climate Action for Urban Sustainability was developed by a partnership between the World Bank, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, AECOM Consulting and Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Land degradation and cities: The essential role of local and regional governments

Global concern for the challenges posed by land degradation has been affirmed by target 15.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which is aimed at halting and reversing land degradation.

Greening Africa's Cities : Enhancing the Relationship between Urbanization, Environmental Assets, and Ecosystem Services

Infrastructure interdependencies + Climate Risks Report

The C40 Infrastructure Interdependencies + Climate Risks Report summarizes the efforts of a sample of city governments and other public agencies around the world to understand the cascading impacts

GPSC Compendium: Achieving Affordable Housing for All

GPSC Compendium: Integrated Planning for Sustainable Urban Form

Fast-growing cities face challenges of populations to shelter, huge infrastructure needs to finance, a changing climate to adapt to, and the imperative to thrive in an evolving global economy.

GPSC Compendium: Strategy and Innovation for Bus Reforms in Developing Countries

In developing countries, buses are the backbone of public transit, and the poor depend on them to access employment and other urban services.

GPSC Compendium: Data-informed Urban Planning

Urban planning is a powerful tool that can be harnessed to meet an area's economic, social, cultural and environmental needs and to make visions fro that area a reality.

GPSC Compendium: Small-scale Municipal PPP

Small-scale public-private partnerships (PPPs) offer a number of benefits, especially where projects are developed by municipalities: they are close to those who need services most, respond to loca

Future of the Funds: Exploring the Architecture of Multilateral Climate Finance

In recognition of the importance of public finance, the global community has established several “climate funds.” These funds are designed to disburse funding to developing countries to help meet t

Nature-based solutions for sustainable urban development

Planting trees to improve urban air quality, converting abandoned industrial sites into urban parks, greening roofs to reduce buildings’ energy use, and restoring degraded wetlands to prevent flood

Sludge to Energy: An Environment-Energy-Economic Assessment of Methane Capture from Sludge in Xiangyang City, Hubei Province

Rail Plus Property Development in China: the Pilot Case of Shenzhen

China’s cities face significant challenges in financing the growth of urban transit infrastructure.

Global Architecture of Climate Finance

The climate finance architecture—the system of specialized, public funds that help countries implement climate mitigation and adaptation projects and programs—is crucial if the world is to meet the

Nigeria - Private Sector Participation in Solid Waste Management Activities in Ibadan

Transport Emissions & Social Cost Assessment: Methodology Guide

The Transport Emissions & Social Cost Assessment is a project under the World Resources Institute’s Sustainable and Livable Cities Program, funded by the Caterpillar Foundation.

Governance of Inclusive Transit-Oriented Development in Brazil

Transit-oriented development (TOD)—a planning strategy focused on building compact, mixed-use neighborhoods with access to high-quality public transport and mobility options—is key

CURB Tool: Climate Action for Urban Sustainability (Spanish)

CURB: Climate Action for Urban Sustainability was developed by a partnership between the World Bank, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, AECOM Consulting and Bloomberg Phi