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How Cities Can Attract Investment for a Green and Just Recovery
Strategic and innovative financing instruments can help cities build urban resilience and promote a just recovery in the wake of COVID-19.
Finance is available in many countries; the challenge is accessing it. Strong policy signals, enabling policies, effective project preparation and the use of innovative financial instruments can help cities take advantage of the full range of financing opportunities available.
This article looks at urban financing options in the context of COVID-19 and the strategies and challenges involved with pursuing certain financing instruments. The article, produced by C40 Cities, discusses green and climate bonds, social impact and sustainability bonds, community-scale projects, fossil fuel divestment, strategic regulations, and private-public partnerships, among other tools which build urban resilience and promote pandemic recovery.
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UrbanShift Annual Report
UrbanShift's inaugural annual report serves as an inspiring portfolio of the program's first year in action as well as a handbook for our strategy to achieve sustainable, low-carbon growth in more than 23 cities across three continents.
Buenos Aires City Academy
The first UrbanShift City Academy in Latin America and the Caribbean brought together participants from 25 cities to receive training on urban biodiversity planning and management and designing vibrant, people-centric neighborhoods.
URBANSHIFT CITIES CONNECT IN MALMÖ
Cities from Asia, Africa and Latin America exchanged knowledge about integrated sustainable urban development at UrbanShift's first global in-person advocacy event and learned first hand from the experiences of host city Malmö, Sweden.
ICLEI World Congress: Strategies for resilient and healthy communities
At the ICLEI World Congress in Malmö, Sweden, UrbanShift cities from Asia, Africa and Latin America met to share knowledge on best practices in local sustainable development and learnt firsthand from Malmö’s sustainability initiatives.
