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This Dialogue will focus on understanding climate finance while also connecting the financing opportunities, mechanisms, and frameworks.
How UrbanShift is supporting the goals of a range of global initiatives for climate action and sustainability.
On 1-3 July 2025, the Academy brought together over 120 participants from cities in China, India, Malaysia, Mongolia, and the Philippines, alongside national government representatives.
The dialogue took place alongside the sixth Steering Committee meeting, bringing together around thirty national and local stakeholders.
How can we ensure tourism not only thrives but also helps protect our planet?
To accelerate the circular economy transition in Morocco, UrbanShift and ICLEI will gather representatives from all of the country's regions to collaborate and discuss shared goals.
The dialogue will focus on further strengthening metropolitan and interfederative governance across three Brazilian regions.
The 2024 State of Cities Climate Finance report (SCCFR) provides the most comprehensive assessment of urban climate flows and needs globally. It aims to inform action on mobilizing finance for city-level climate action at scale by 2030.
This report is intended to address this development challenge. It provides a snapshot of the volume of finance flowing to municipalities in developing countries, showing that such flows have been extremely restricted in recent years.
The goal of this toolkit is to provide practical tools so that governments in the Global South, starting with Brazil, can more effectively address the challenges related to climate change, social inequalities and inadequate infrastructure.
