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    Insights
    March 6, 2024

    How "Complete Streets" Are Creating Safer, More Sustainable Cities in Brazil

    • Cities
    • transportation
    • public transit
    • Urban Mobility
    • Urban Transformations
    • Urban Development
    People cross the street in Belo Horizonte
    • Cities
    • transportation
    • public transit
    • Urban Mobility
    • Urban Transformations
    • Urban Development
    Cities
    Asia Africa Latin America Oceania North America Europe
    Insights
    November 29, 2023

    The Future of Extreme Heat in Cities: What We Know — and What We Don’t

    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    • Urban Development
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate impacts
    • climate science
    • COP28
    Brick layers during in a heatwave in New Delhi, India
    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    • Urban Development
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate impacts
    • climate science
    • COP28
    Equity & Governance
    Oceania
    Update
    June 14, 2023

    Profiles of Adaptation: Fiji

    • adaptation
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • Equity & Governance
    Josaia Cakacaka/Unsplash
    • adaptation
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • Equity & Governance
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    Update
    December 6, 2022

    Profiles of Adaptation: Uruguay

    • Climate
    • adaptation
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    People walk along the beach at Atlántida Departamento de Canelones, Uruguay
    • Climate
    • adaptation
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    Equity & Governance
    Asia Africa Latin America
    Insights
    November 1, 2022

    Logrando la adaptación dirigida localmente: ejemplos de todo el mundo

    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation
    People building sea wall.
    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation
    Equity & Governance
    Asia Africa Latin America
    Insights
    November 1, 2022

    Getting Locally Led Adaptation Right: Examples from Around the World

    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation
    • COP28
    People building sea wall.
    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation
    • COP28
    Finance
    Oceania
    Insights
    August 19, 2022

    What the World Can Learn from Fiji’s National Climate Finance Strategy

    • floods
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation
    • climate finance
    • Paying for Paris
    A young girl wades through a flooded village after a tropical cyclone hit Fiji in 2016. Flood events and storm surges have become increasingly common in the country in recent years.
    • floods
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation
    • climate finance
    • Paying for Paris
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    Update
    July 7, 2022

    Profiles of Adaptation: Colombia

    • adaptation
    • Climate
    • climate change
    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation
    • Climate
    • climate change
    • Climate Resilience
    Cities
    Initiatives
    June 16, 2021

    Transformative Urban Coalitions

    Participants in a Transformative Urban Coalitions event in Teresina, Brazil
    Cities
    Initiatives
    May 11, 2021

    UrbanShift

    early in the morning in the best light in Havana
    Cities
    Latin America
    Update
    May 10, 2021

    Transformative Urban Coalitions Project Focuses on Urban Labs in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico

    • Urban Development
    • Urban Mobility
    • Climate Resilience
    Houses on a hill
    • Urban Development
    • Urban Mobility
    • Climate Resilience
    Climate
    Latin America
    Insights
    April 26, 2021

    Las comunidades del Gran Chaco Americano se están organizando para resistir el cambio climático

    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • floods
    • climate impacts
    A woman holding a tablet to take photos of an outdoor region.
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • floods
    • climate impacts
    Climate
    Latin America
    Insights
    April 26, 2021

    Communities in South America's Gran Chaco Are Organizing to Withstand Climate Change

    • Climate
    • floods
    • climate impacts
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    A woman holding a tablet to take photos of an outdoor region.
    • Climate
    • floods
    • climate impacts
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    Cities
    Asia
    News
    March 17, 2021

    RELEASE: National governments can reap $12 trillion in returns, create millions of new jobs, reduce emissions through low-carbon investments in cities

    • Urban Transformations
    • Urban Development
    • Equity & Governance
    • Urban Transformations
    • Urban Development
    • Equity & Governance

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