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From an inspiring study tour on urban cable cars to insight-filled trainings on climate action planning and finance, UrbanShift has supported Freetown—and all of Sierra Leone—to accelerate its climate goals.
The dialogue will focus on further strengthening metropolitan and interfederative governance across three Brazilian regions.
In this final finance-focused edition of the UrbanShift newsletter, we reflect on four years of empowering local governments to advance local sustainable urban infrastructure. Maryke van Staden, Director of ICLEI’s carbonn Climate Center, highlights key milestones, including the 10th anniversary of the TAP project pipeline. We also share what’s still to come as UrbanShift enters its final phase.
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.
Project Preparation Facilities support cities in developing bankable, investment-ready projects, typically from a project’s concept, design, or scoping stage up to the financial close.
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.
In this ICLEI-hosted webinar, learn how cities can protect natural ecosystems while generating revenue from sustainable tourism.
C40's Jessy Appavoo, ICLEI's André Almeida da Vila, and UNEP's Sharon Gil share why and how UrbanShift has prioritized support for cities to access climate finance.
The workshop focused on strategising actions to support the realisation of existing sustainable urban development and waste management plans.
