• Publication 4 March 2025 Enabling Future-Ready Urbanization in Fast-Growing Cities with Nature-based Solutions Climate change and rapid urbanization challenge sustainable development and human well-being in the growing cities of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Asia, Africa, and Latin America, in particular, are at the forefront of the world’s urbanization today, with several low- and middle-income cities in these regions poised to become the most populous in the following decades. However, the rapid pace of urbanisation and the compounding impacts of climate change can severely disrupt cities’…
• Publication 4 March 2025 Business Models for Financing Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Climate Action This publication serves as a comprehensive guide to financing and developing business models for Nature-based Solutions (NbS) addressing climate challenges in urban areas. The publication is designed as a knowledge resource for NbS project developers in the public and private sectors and other stakeholders involved in NbS planning and implementation. Its primary intention is to support the adoption of NBS approaches in cities in developing countries, drawing on global implementation experience…
• Project 22 May 2024 Assessing and managing loss and damage: Local-level evidence to inform global-level action in developing countries Creating a city-specific framework to assess climate change-induced loss and damage and develop tailored adaptation strategies addressing urban challenges to advocate for disaster response and recovery funding.The UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre supports India, Zambia, and Mauritius in assessing and managing climate-induced loss and damage (L&D). The project aims to increase awareness about the linkages between adaptation costs and disaster recovery costs, and the drivers of non-economic L…
• Publication 17 July 2023 Green and blue spaces Energy efficiency and nature‐based solutions can help cities combat excessive heat amid rising temperatures. Energy efficiency mitigates excessive heat, whereas nature‐based solutions adapt and withstand it. Better construction, building energy efficiency, and sustainable transportation policy, planning, and technology can help cities cope with high heat. Reduced energy consumption reduces greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Nature‐based solutions, such as green roofs, green walls,…
• Webinar & E-Learning 13 February 2023 100 Good Practices of Sustainable Energy Actions in Cities – An Overview and Recommendations for Replication (Webinar) - 09.02.2023 Cities are the centres of economic activities and population in all parts of the world. From 2018 to 2021, the Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency (C2E2), in its role as the SEforALL energy efficiency hub, used a standard template to systematically collect good practices of energy efficiency actions in cities and published them in Copenhagen’s Centre Knowledge Management System. The C2E2 team gathered 100 good practices through extensive online searching and desk research, aiming to provide…
• Tools 11 October 2021 Solar PV on municipal buildings: a guide to feasibility and financial analysis Building scale renewable energy is the most impactful action that cities can take to decarbonise their energy sector, especially with the rapidly falling costs of renewable energy technologies. City governments can move fastest by using their own underutilised rooftop space to generate electricity with solar PVs. Not only is this a cost-efficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality, but it can also reduce municipal reduce energy costs and generate financial…
• Publication 9 September 2021 Climate technologies in an urban context This guidebook is produced as part of the GEF-Funded Global Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) Project, which is implemented by UNEP and UNEP DTU Partnership. Since 2009, close to one hundred countries have joined the Global TNA Project. Urban areas are home to an increasingly large share of the world’s population. As a result, a growing proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions are stemming from activities located in cities and towns, where many of the adverse impacts of global warming are…
• Webinar & E-Learning 3 March 2021 Business Models in District Energy Systems (Webinar) – 16.02.2021 This webinar is part of the training modules offered by the District Energy in Cities Initiative. It provides key insights of business models to ensure the viability of district energy projects for both heating and cooling systems. Among other aspects, the webinar covers projects that require leveraging state funding, financing models with a price cap, business models structuring when there are substitutes for district energy, the impact of legal regimes on business models, tariff setting and…

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