Publications

The Publication Library is a collection of reports, tools, blogs, newsletters and webinars, covering the key issues in the field of urban climate finance. Search for the latest CCFLA Materials as well as materials from our Members.

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Financing Green Buildings in Indonesian Cities

This report is the third of a three-part series by CCFLA to promote a better understanding of the financing barriers and solutions for implementing net zero carbon buildings. It assesses the current use of financial instruments that can promote the development of Indonesia’s green buildings sector. It also explores how national and subnational regulatory frameworks can address the identified barriers to private and public investment.

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Accelerating Urban Climate Finance in Low- and Middle- Income Countries: An important strategic dimension of MDB reform

This report presents the first assessment of ten MDBs’ contributions to urban climate finance in L&MICs and explores opportunities for them to do more. Produced in collaboration with the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and the Global Covenant of Mayors, it provides analysis, insights, and recommendations to position urban climate finance as an important element of the MDB reform agenda and inform decision-making.

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City view of Lagos, Nigeria

Financing Net Zero Carbon Buildings in Nigeria

This report is part of a three-part series led by CCFLA to promote an understanding of financing barriers to net zero carbon building and identifies how national, state, and local policy and regulatory frameworks can be improved to drive private and public investment in this sector.

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Hot Cities, Chilled Economies: Impacts of Extreme Heat on Global Cities

This report assesses the social and economic effects of extreme heat through the prism of twelve cities that are already enduring and addressing dramatic impacts of heat waves. Heat’s disproportionate impact on cities—and the ironic reality that more and more people are flocking to them due to climate change’s burgeoning impacts elsewhere—compelled us to quantify and explore the seismic ramifications of our burning planet. This report is a continuation of an economic study undertaken in partnership with Vivid Economics. In phase one of this work, released in August 2021, we found that worker productivity losses totalled $100 billion in the United States alone in 2020, a number which will double in 2030 and rise to $500 billion by 2050.

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