City Climate Finance Gap Fund Approves First Round of Grants for Nine Cities The City Climate Finance Gap Fund approved its first batch of technical assistance grants totaling $1.8 million to help nine cities transform their climate ambitions into finance-ready...
A new fund for a new urban future 2020 has cast in sharp relief three overlapping global crises. A pandemic is devastating lives and health systems. A weakening global economy threatens to push 175 million people into poverty and 73 million more into extreme...
Activating more private capital to make cities more sustainable Cities are home to more than half of the world’s population, and they are expected to add another 2.5 billion new residents by 2050. They face increasing environmental pressures and infrastructure...
Financing climate-smart urban development in the wake of COVID-19 Home to an ever-growing majority of people, and central hubs of traffic, industry, and commerce, cities simultaneously house the biggest contributors to climate change and the bearers of some of its...
Cities are the hub of the global green recovery The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed sobering impacts on the world’s cities. Today we live in times of a pandemic with a silent and aggressive virus, which can even be lethal and has transformed our lives, where the best...
