Our impact

The CCFLA welcomed 4 new members and 3 new LUCI initiatives in 2022 for a total of 80 members including 41 enablers, 23 supply side, 10 demand side, and 6 policymakers.

In 2022, CCFLA produced 15 knowledge products: 5 reports, 3 policy briefs, 4 tools, and 3 blogs.

Secretariat staff spoke at more than 30 external city climate sessions in 2022 and convened stakeholders at 4 major international climate finance gatherings, and the CCFLA Annual Assembly.

Our 2022 Highlights and Impact Report outlines the progress and key milestones achieved in 2022, and highlights members’ knowledge products and case studies.

Read the 2022 Highlights and Impact Report

Every year, our members produce a wide-range of knowledge products that respond to the many challenges faced by cities while accessing urban climate financing.

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Blue-Tinted White Paper, Investment Protocol

High-Level Climate Champions, the Ocean and Climate Platform, Resilient Cities Network, and ICLEI

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.

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Thriving: Making Cities Green, Resilient, and Inclusive in a Changing Climate

World Bank

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.

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Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction

Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction

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.

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CCFLA member climate finance initiatives are implemented globally, with an emphasis on emerging markets and developing economies

17% Latin America and the Caribbean
6% USA & CANADA
3% Western Europe
8% Central Asia & Eastern Europe
8% Middle-East And North Africa
14% Sub-saharan africa
14% South asia
7% Other Oceania
11% East asia & pacific

Percentage of CCFLA member initiatives active in different regions, as reported

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15%

CCFLA members are driving urban climate action through project preparation support, knowledge-sharing, and project finance.

To scale urban climate finance and impact, CCFLA members are catalyzing action along the entire value chain of subnational climate finance - from project conception through to financing. CCFLA members range in size and function, so we asked them to select the type of support that best describes their key programs and initiatives. Each of these are critical aspects to support the prioritization of cities in the global architecture of climate finance.

Type of Members’ Programs/Initiatives

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Project preparation/ Technical assistance/ Facility/ Pipeline builder

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Research & Knowledge

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City network

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Alliance/Coalition

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Financial institution/Fund

Almost all CCFLA members focus on both mitigation and adaptation.

The large majority of CCFLA members focus on multiple sectors, indicating broad climate, multi-hazard planning and infrastructure financing support.

88% of surveyed members address both mitigation and adaptation concerns, a significant increase from the previous CCFLA mapping in 2017.

Sectoral focus of members programs/initiatives

Percentage of members selecting a particular sectoral focus

Adaptation and resilience

80%

Water, sanitation and waste

68%

Urban public and green space

64%

Renewable energy

63%

Transportation/mobility

63%

Land use nature-based solutions

61%

Energy efficiency

59%

Low carbon tech and open data

27%

Integrated urban planning

5%

Focus of the program

In terms of the activities of the members’ programs/initiatives, the top areas of focus included capacity development, enabling frameworks, project preparation, urban planning, and finance. Most programs had more than one focus area.

Focus Areas of Members Programs/ Initiatives

Percentage of members selecting a particular focus area to describe their program/initiative(s)

Capacity development

83%

Project preparation

69%

Finance

59%

Urban planning

56%

Enabling frameworks

51%

Advocacy

3%

Innovation/research

3%

Participation in International Initiatives & Networks

CCFLA Secretariat participates in several external global initiatives and multi-stakeholder networks to raise visibility of the mission of CCFLA and amplify its core messages to broader audiences with relevant interests. To date, CCFLA has engaged actively with the following:

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Maryke van Staden

Director of ICLEI’s carbonn Climate Center (Bonn Center for Local Climate Action and Reporting)

CCFLA plays a crucial role in bringing together different actors working on closing the investment gap for climate action in cities… the first sub-national forum in Mexico, organized by ICLEI and FMDV, strengthened the collaboration not only between CCFLA members globally and locally, but enhanced coordination of national and international organizations, as well as all levels of government - including city officials in the country - towards developing bankable projects. This is why we engage here!

Andy Deacon

Acting Global Managing Director, Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM)

Being part of CCFLA has been a valuable engagement that has allowed us to work towards demystifying the complexities around financing climate-smart urban infrastructure projects for our mayors and cities. As the co-chair of CCFLA’s Enabling Frameworks Action Group, GCoM has been able to connect with like-minded institutions, discuss common challenges, and improve policy frameworks around cities’ ability to access much-needed climate finance.

Katie Walsh

Head of Cities, States and Regions, CDP North America

CDP serves on the Steering Committee for CCFLA and through our participation in the Project Preparation Action Group and Financial Toolbox Action Groups we have found numerous opportunities to partner with other organizations who have a shared mission to accelerate financing climate action in cities. CCFLA serves a critical need – it bridges organizations and people with common purpose and catalyzes new ways of working and initiative that finance city climate action. The collective organizing efforts in CCFLA are supporting us on the journey as Cities Race to Zero and Race to Resilience.

Kassandra Soto

Project Director at the Municipal Institute for Urban Planning, City of Hermosillo

…From the lessons that we take from our participation in CCFLA's [Mexico Project Preparation Forum] event, now we know that we must structure our projects in a clear and concise manner, defining the technical-financial aspects, same that will make them viable, but above all, that it is very important to communicate effectively the ends and means to specialized audiences.

Sustainable Infrastructure Foundation

“Thanks to CCFLA we developed partnerships, with CDP and ICLEI, and launched 3 pilots with Latin American cities using the multilateral online software SOURCE to support the early-stage preparation of sustainable infrastructure projects, enable their access to international best practices and connect them with the relevant PPF.”

Global Infrastructure Facility

“Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF) is proud to be a member of CCFLA. As a project preparation facility active at the city-level, GIF has leveraged CCFLA’s rich library of knowledge products, convenings, and the collective insights of its members to better inform its work of building pipelines of sustainable, resilient infrastructure.”