Felicity, together with World Resources Institute Brazil (WRI) successfully launched the study ‘Financing low carbon infrastructure in urban areas in Brazil’. By identifying seven barriers to green and climate financing of urban infrastructure in Brazil, solutions on how to overcome them in the future were presented. Due to the importance of climate financing as a tool of climate change mitigation, the study can be seen as a starting point for future dialogues about urban financing barriers contributing to the enabling of green recovery projects. This publication is the result of a partnership between the German Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), the German Cooperation for Sustainable Development, through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, within the framework of project Financing Energy for Low-carbon Investment – Cities Advisory Facility (FELICITY), financed by the International Climate Protection Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and implemented by GIZ in collaboration with the European Investment Bank (EIB).