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
Alliance Newsletter: Nov/Dec 2020
View the latest news and updates from the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance.
Urban Climate Finance in the Wake of COVID-19
From the USD 20.5 trillion pledged to COVID-19 recovery globally, only USD 1.1 trillion have been committed to cities. This Alliance policy brief looks at COVID-19 recovery assistance for cities from key funders - national governments, Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), and the private sector.
CIF Webinar – London Climate Action Week 2020
As part of London Climate Action Week, Climate Investment Funds (CIF) will be hosting an event on Green, Smart, and Resilient: The Future of Cities. Dr. Barbara Buchner of the Alliance Secretariat will participate as a speaker.
Alliance members create harmonized application for project preparation facilities
Leading organizations that help cities prepare bankable sustainable infrastructure projects are now using a harmonized application form for their project preparation facilities.
Green City Finance Directory helps cities access sustainable finance
The Alliance announced today during ICLEI’s Daring Cities 2020 the launch of its Green City Finance Directory, a resource to help subnational governments and stakeholders identify project preparation facilities.