Promoting Innovative Financing Solutions for Cities

By |2024-01-03T10:24:46+01:00March 14th 2019|Finance, Resilient Cities and Climate|

About 75 per cent of the infrastructure that needs to be in place by 2050 does not exist today. Getting such an immense scale of infrastructure development right will be critical to whether or not the world locks into a high- or low-carbon growth path. The newly established City Finance Lab tries to contribute innovative, replicable and scalable solutions to reach this ambitious goal.

Why the Way We Work Together Will Determine Our Future

By |2024-01-02T15:43:56+01:00June 26th 2018|Good Governance, Resilient Cities and Climate|

In the third part of our series on the Talanoa Dialogues, Steven Bland from UN-Habitat blogs on the importance of effective multi-level governance for climate change action, and the steps UN-Habitat is taking to promote it.

The Talanoa Dialogue: How Cities and Regions Can Deliver on the Promise of the Paris Agreement

By |2024-01-02T15:03:49+01:00April 27th 2018|Good Governance, Resilient Cities and Climate|

Why should urban, regional and national decision-makers alike pay attention to the Talanoa Dialogue? This process, which was initiated by the Fijian COP23 Presidency, presents an exciting opportunity to align the national and subnational spheres of climate action. Throughout 2018, URBANET will report on the issue in a new series of articles.

Towards sustainable cities: Implementing the NDCs and SDGs at the local level

By |2023-12-19T15:30:53+01:00November 15th 2017|Integrated Planning, Resilient Cities and Climate|

Cities and urban settlements play a key role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and the commitments of the Paris Agreement. Nathaly Arguto and Stella Schroeder cast a spotlight on projects from Latin America, the region with the highest rate of urbanisation in the world, that contribute to implementing the global agendas for sustainability.

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