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Cities4Forests

Pond and trees in front of city skyline.
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Development Banks Are Starting to Spark Climate Action. Will They Complete the Task?

  • Climate
  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
  • development
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
Setting up a solar-powered water pump to pump groundwater in Ethiopia.
  • Climate
  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
  • development
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
Outcomes

Research, Technology and Policy Combine to Protect Madagascar’s Forests

  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Forests
  • conservation
  • deforestation
Group conducting forest research in Madagascar.
  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Forests
  • conservation
  • deforestation
Outcomes

Indian Cities Pioneer Nature-based Solutions and Inspire National Climate Action

  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Climate
  • nature-based solutions
  • National Climate Action
  • floods
  • climate change
  • Freshwater
Man gardening in plot.
  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Climate
  • nature-based solutions
  • National Climate Action
  • floods
  • climate change
  • Freshwater

Indonesia’s Indigenous and Community Groups Secure Legal Rights to Forests

  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Equity & Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Forests
  • conservation
Local people from Takal Pasir Village conducting a survey of the Singkil peat swamp forest.
  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Equity & Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Forests
  • conservation
Outcomes

India Rolls Out 10,000 Electric Buses in Dozens of Cities

  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Electric Mobility
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • electric mobility
  • Cities
An air-conditioned Electric bus on road of Kolkata.
  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Electric Mobility
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • electric mobility
  • Cities
Outcomes

New Nature Crime Alliance Forms to Combat Crimes Against People and Planet

  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • illegal logging
  • deforestation
  • conservation
Orphan Black Rhino in Gonarezhou National Park with scout rangers holding weapons.
  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • illegal logging
  • deforestation
  • conservation
Outcomes

More than 50 Vulnerable Countries Advance Climate Action

  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
Solar panel installation and rural development in the Gabu region.
  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
Outcomes

Jakarta Creates 50+ New Parks to Boost Climate Resilience

  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • nature-based solutions
Urban park in Jakarta.
  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • nature-based solutions
Outcomes

Indonesian Companies Accelerate Industrial Decarbonization

  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Business
  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • GHG Protocol
Pacific Press Media Production Corp./Alamy Stock Photo
  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Business
  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • GHG Protocol
Outcomes

US Hospitals Reduce Emissions Through Plant-based Foods

  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Food
  • health
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • agriculture
Hospital dining workers.
  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Food
  • health
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • agriculture

Brazilian Cities Save Lives by Improving Road Safety

  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Cities
  • Health & Road Safety
  • road safety
Protected bike lanes.
  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Cities
  • Health & Road Safety
  • road safety
Insights

The Good, the Bad and the Urgent: MDB Climate Finance in 2022

  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
Women farmers in New Delhi, India, crouch in the fields in the summer heat.
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
Technical Perspectives

MDBs Need Major Reforms, Not Just More Funding, to Address Climate and Development Finance Challenges

  • Finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate finance
  • sustainable development goals
Women and children walking among tents in a refugee camp in Somalia.
  • Finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate finance
  • sustainable development goals
Technical Perspectives

How Multilateral Development Banks Can Use Policy-Based Financing to Support Climate-Resilient Economies

  • multilateral development banks
  • Climate
  • low carbon development
Women scoop up dirty water from a polluted lake in Chad.
  • multilateral development banks
  • Climate
  • low carbon development
Insights

The Good, the Bad and the Urgent: MDB Climate Finance in 2021

  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate change
Restoration of a preserve in FL
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate change
Insights

The Good, the Bad and the Urgent: MDB Climate Finance in 2020

  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate change
  • COP26
Farmers check crops
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate change
  • COP26
Insights

5 Ways the World Bank’s Climate Action Plan Could Go Further

  • multilateral development banks
  • International Climate Action
  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
Wind Park near Kavarna, Bulgaria.
  • multilateral development banks
  • International Climate Action
  • Finance
  • adaptation finance

4 Climate Finance Priorities for the Biden Administration

  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • development
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • multilateral development banks
View of the White House and surrounding Washington, D.C. streets from above.
  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • development
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • multilateral development banks