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The dialogue brings together local and international experts to tackle urban flooding through knowledge exchange, hands-on workshops, and policy discussions.
This publication serves as a comprehensive guide to financing and developing business models for Nature-based Solutions (NbS) addressing climate challenges in urban areas.
This dialogue will strengthen local government involvement in shaping and implementing the country’s NDC 3.0, fostering national-local collaboration for ambitious climate action.
During the Green & Resilient UrbanShift Africa Forum, leaders from across the continent united to learn and share insights on accelerating transformative urban planning approaches—and the finance needed to implement them.
The first quarterly newsletter of 2025 reflects on the impactful Green & Resilient UrbanShift Africa Forum and previews the exciting year ahead.
WRI’s Mariana Orloff and John-Rob Pool share highlights and learnings from our broad capacity-building efforts, from the City Academy to Peer-to-Peer Exchanges.
Commissioned by C40 Cities, the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM), and UrbanShift, this Roadmap provides evidence-backed insights, policy recommendations, and tools for Global South city mayors.
By analyzing nearly 300 nature-based solutions projects across sub-Saharan Africa from 2012 to 2023, this report offers a comprehensive overview of NBS in the region and provides recommendations to scale NBS projects for climate resilience.
This report is aimed at defining implementation options for national governments to significantly scale up finance for subnational climate action in close partnership with subnational governments, development partners, and the private sector.
UrbanShift's forum for Africa will gather leaders from cities and national governments from across the continent to collectively discuss the role of urban planning amidst rapid urbanisation and climate breakdown.
