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The UrbanShift Online City Academy offers free access to eight robust, self-paced courses for furthering understanding around key planning themes.
During the 7th GEF Assembly, UrbanShift will host two events on the vital role of urban Nature-Based Solutions in creating sustainable cities.
As recorded temperatures have spiked to new levels this summer, it's more important than ever that cities invest in green to mitigate extreme heat.
Representatives from Costa Rica, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia convened in Barranquilla, Colombia, to learn from the city’s experience of implementing successful urban nature-based solutions projects.
Developed by UrbanShift and Cities4Forests, this new tool enables local actors to assess real-time climate risks and effectively plan future mitigation strategies.
The second UrbanShift City Academy in Latin America brought together participants from 30 cities for trainings on nature-based solutions and integrated climate action planning.
Through its effort to restore urban wetlands, Kigali is mitigating its flood risk and emerging as and exemplar for resilient development.
In Costa Rica’s capital region, a locally led, GEF-funded effort to clean up trash provides a model for successful community regeneration initiatives.
In this report, C40 Cities and Arup outline how urban rewilding efforts can restore natural habitats within cities, and offer guiding principles, project typologies, and case studies.
During this session at the Cities Summit of the Americas in Denver, leaders and experts shared perspectives on successful nature-based solutions in Latin American cities, as well as strategies to increase financing for resilience efforts.