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Leveraging partnerships to strengthen cities’ resilience to climate change
Cities in low-income countries and emerging economies face significant challenges in developing and financing...
From Floods to Resilience: How the Gap Fund is Helping Cambodia Build Greener Cities
With support from the City Climate Finance Gap Fund, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is charting a course toward a greener...
How the Gap Fund supported the design of green, resilient, and affordable homes in Indonesia
Houses in Palembang, Indonesia. Photo credit: Adobe Stock.Highlights The World Bank's City Climate Finance Gap Fund...
In Kinshasa, nature-based solutions are easing challenges from rapid urbanization and climate change
Kinshasa, the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is growing rapidly.Nature-based solutions...
Transforming Panama’s San Miguelito District into a More Livable, Safe and Climate Resilient Urban Center
Building a resilient future: experts from the City Climate Finance Gap Fund (The Gap Fund) share how they worked with...
Building cleaner, greener, more livable cities: Pristina – a blueprint for transforming urban development
The City Climate Finance Gap Fund Since its inception in September 2020, the City Climate Finance Gap Fund (the Gap...
City Climate Finance Gap Fund aims to expand technical assistance to new cities
With lessons learned over its two years of operation, the Gap Fund climate initiative aims to expand its technical...
Taking concrete steps to get climate finance to cities
This blog was written by Adel Strydom, Senior Communications Officer at ICLEI Africa, and Kale Roberts, Senior Program...
Joint WB and CCFLA blog on the State of Cities Climate Finance Report
The science is clear: Cities are hot spots for climate change, as reported by the latest IPCC report. With 70% of...
City Climate Finance Gap Fund completes first year of operation with support to 33 cities
Washington/ Luxembourg, 23 September 2021 -- The City Climate Finance Gap Fund (the Gap Fund) has approved technical...
City Climate Finance Gap Fund approves support for six cities
Free technical assistance for the preparation of early-stage climate action projects Energy efficiency, renewable...
City Climate Finance Gap Fund Approves First Round of Grants for Nine Cities
The City Climate Finance Gap Fund approved its first batch of technical assistance grants totaling $1.8 million to...
A new fund for a new urban future
2020 has cast in sharp relief three overlapping global crises. A pandemic is devastating lives and health systems. A...
Activating more private capital to make cities more sustainable
Cities are home to more than half of the world’s population, and they are expected to add another 2.5 billion new...
Financing climate-smart urban development in the wake of COVID-19
Home to an ever-growing majority of people, and central hubs of traffic, industry, and commerce, cities simultaneously...
Cities are the hub of the global green recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed sobering impacts on the world’s cities. Today we live in times of a pandemic with a...