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Introducing the UrbanShift Online City Academy: Eight Essential Courses for Sustainable Urban Planning

The UrbanShift Online City Academy offers free access to eight robust, self-paced courses for furthering understanding around key planning themes.

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Transforming a Dump Site in Costa Rica into a Community Green Space

In Costa Rica’s capital region, a locally led, GEF-funded effort to clean up trash provides a model for successful community regeneration initiatives.

Cable Cars in Medellin, Colombia
City Spotlight

Cable Cars: A Low-Carbon Transit Solution for Growing Cities

Medellín’s experience adapting cable cars to an urban context provides an inspiring and practical solution for congestion, air quality and a host of other challenges faced by cities in the Global South.

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News

Introducing the UrbanShift Online City Academy: Eight Essential Courses for Sustainable Urban Planning

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Recap

Strategies for efficiency in urban cooling: A focus on Asia and beyond

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City Spotlight

How Africa’s First Chief Heat Officer is Helping to Create a More Resilient Freetown

The UrbanShift Peer to Peer exchange participants in front of a zero-emission bus in Mumbai
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Building Capacity to Scale Zero-Emission Buses

A man cools off at a splash pad in downtown Algiers, Algeria, where temperatures hit 42°C amid a heatwave that is roasting much of North Africa.
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How Nature Can Help Cities Fend Off Record-Smashing Heat

Participants in the Costa Rica City Academy walk down the banks of the Virilla River to see the waste trapping plastic barrier.
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In Costa Rica, A Scalable Pilot is Trapping and Repurposing Plastic Waste Before it Reaches the Ocean

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New Data Dashboard Helps Cities Build Urban Resilience in a Changing Climate

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Opinion

What does a green city look like?: Equitable, connected, and nature-positive

A pond in the restored Nyandungu wetland in Kigali
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Restoring Kigali’s Wetlands to Accelerate Climate Resilience

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo addresses the audience at the Paris International Forum to End Plastic Pollution in Cities
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How Cities are Leading in the Fight Against Plastic Pollution