The Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance is a coalition of leaders committed to deploying finance for city level climate action at scale by 2030.
Trillions of dollars will be required to help cities build the low-emissions, resilient infrastructure necessary to combat and react to climate change. The Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance is the only multi-level and multi-stakeholder coalition aimed at closing the investment gap for urban subnational climate projects and infrastructure worldwide.
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Population that will live in cities by 2050
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Coastal areas will experience above-average sea-level rise
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Share of global emissions from cities
Sustainable infrastructure spending needed in the next 15 years
The Alliance aims to:
Build awareness of city finance needs and opportunities
Craft a strong global architecture to support measurement and evaluation
Identify existing solutions and gaps in city-level, climate-related finance
Support new investment solutions that fill crucial gaps in cities climate finance
National Development Banks as Key Enablers of Cities Climate Finance
This session will bring together experts to discuss a new Alliance knowledge product, which identifies the factors that must be in place to enable NDBs to effectively support cities with the development of climate-smart infrastructure and in achieving their climate objectives.
Financing a Resilient Recovery: Applications to Cities and Beyond
The Global Commission on Adaptation, the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance, and CPI will host a webinar to present the key findings from two recent policy briefs.
An Analysis of Urban Climate Adaptation Finance
While many cities have begun enacting policies and programs to build resilience towards climate hazards, there are numerous barriers to financing urban adaptation activities.
Blog: An Analysis of Urban Climate Adaptation Finance
This week the Alliance and the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center released a brief, An Analysis of Urban Climate Adaptation Finance Tracking.
The State of Urban Climate Finance: A focus on financial flows towards urban adaptation and support for project preparation
On 18 Feb. 2021, a webinar co-organized by UNDRR and the Alliance aims to introduce useful tools and resources to enhance local governments’ capacity in developing bankable projects for financing key DRR and resilience actions.