The High-Level Climate Champions, the Ocean and Climate Platform, Resilient Cities Network, and ICLEI released their Blue-Tinted White Paper, Investment Protocol: Unlocking financial flows for coastal cities adaptation to climate change and resilience building which offers 6 tips for investors to finance coastal cities resilience, including exploring different financial mechanisms.

The OECD and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy co-produced the Global Compendium of Land Value Capture Policies scoping the full landscape of land value capture (LVC) instruments in 60 countries, and what it would take to unleash their full potential as a sustainable revenue source.

The paper ‘Climate Emergency Finance: A call to action,’ FMDV, ICLEI, and UNCDF call for action to unlock and accelerate the flow of financing approaches that could play a critical role in financing climate emergencies. Special attention is given to the role of Subnational Development Banks, the pipeline of investment-ready projects, guarantees, and bonds.

The Cities Alliance paper, “Seizing the Opportunity: Rapid Urbanisation and the Circular Economy,” considers how the circular economy and climate migration can improve socioeconomic conditions in developing cities, and the role of an integrated, inclusive city planning approach.

The UCLG World Secretariat and PLATFORMA released a study “Local and Regional Governments’ Access to EU Innovative Development Financing: Mechanisms and Opportunities,” outlining the main funding mechanisms available to cities and regions to support their local development and decentralized cooperation activities.

BWWK, GIZ & GCoM contributed to the Summary for Urban Policymakers of the IPCC Sixth Assessment report which aims to advance a scientific evidence base to propel implementation and deepen climate action in cities around the world. The Summary for Urban Policymakers series includes 3 reports and an action agenda, all launched at COP27.

The World Bank report Thriving: Making Cities Green, Resilient, and Inclusive in a Changing Climate provides a compass to help local and national policymakers meet their objectives to make cities greener, more resilient, and more inclusive. It outlines what policy instruments are available; who yields these instruments; and how policy choices could be tailored, prioritized, and sequenced for effective implementation.

The Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction (Buildings-GSR) is a flagship publication of the UNEP-hosted Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) that provides an annual snapshot of the progress of the buildings and construction sector on a global scale and reviews the status of policies, finance, technologies, and solutions to monitor whether the sector is aligned with the Paris Agreement goals.