Policy Brief: How to Increase Financing for Urban Climate Adaptation and Resilience

This policy brief is directed at national policymakers and lays out how they can work with other key stakeholders (subnational governments, local leaders, public financial institutions) to scale finance for climate adaptation and resilience.

Financing the Local Climate Transition Through Local Climate Funds

This factsheet is intended to help local government leaders and their technical and financial partners have a better understanding of the complex structural components of setting up local climate funds, including identifying attractive financial models and the different ways to support financing the local climate transition.

Greening City Budgets: Practical Approaches

As cities look at different options to finance their climate action projects, they need to ensure that their budgets are aligned with their climate goals. This policy brief aims to provide guidance on how cities can use green budgeting to identify suitable green investments.

Leveraging National Development Banks to Enhance Financing for Climate-Smart Urban Infrastructure

This knowledge product builds on the policy brief Enhancing the Role of National Development Banks in Supporting Climate-Smart Urban Infrastructure, which sets the stage to explore the mandate and capacities of NDBs in accelerating financing for local governments’ climate-smart urban infrastructure.