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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...