Nature-based solutions like urban farming, terraces, and green corridors can help cities with climate challenges including urban heat, flooding, and air pollution. But how can governments and communities determine which nature-based solutions best meet their needs? In Kinshasa, indigenous knowledge, innovative tools, and proactive local government are helping to answer the question.
VTDigger: Where do city trees come from? Meet the people behind Burlington’s tree nursery
Where do city trees come from? Meet the people behind Burlington’s tree nursery
The World Bank Group supports cities and mobilizes subnational finance to create jobs by building urban infrastructure and strengthening municipal services.
This report highlights the substantial investments required to build more resilient and low-carbon cities in low- and middle-income countries. These investments are crucial to strengthen essential infrastructure, unlock new jobs, and ensure more sustainable urban development. Resilient and low ...
Extreme urban heat is becoming an urgent challenge for Bangkok, threatening lives, livelihoods, and the city’s economic resilience. The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect exacerbates this crisis, turning built-up areas into heat traps that contribute to heat-related mortality, lost productivity, higher energy consumption, and other negative outcomes.
Shaping a Cooler Bangkok: Tackling Urban Heat for a More Livable City
Discover how the Ethiopia Urban Institutional and Infrastructure Development Program created 1.15 million jobs with World Bank support.
How an Urban Program in Ethiopia Delivered More than a Million Jobs
The World Urban Forum is the premier global conference on urbanization. It brings together participants from around the globe to discuss the major urban challenges facing the world today. The thirteenth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13) will be held from May 17–22, 2026 in Baku, Azerbaijan, co-organized by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and the Government ...