This paper Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects aims to raise awareness of the benefits of Green Infrastructure (GI) solutions for water resources management, and can provide both significant water management benefits and co-benefits with existing grey water infrastructure.
This Report Financing a Resilient Urban Future: A Policy brief on World Bank and global experience on financing climate-resilient urban infrastructure draws on World Bank experience and datasets and a review of academic and grey literature on financing three core urban infrastructure systems – water, transport, and energy.
This report Financing Climate Futures: Shifting the Lens - Interim Briefing is one part of the broader Financing Climate Futures initiative focusing on the identification of critical uncertainties posing constraints to aligning financial flows with climate objectives and in particular infrastructure investment.
The 2019 Financing for Sustainable Development Report, the fourth report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development, provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of sustainable finance, four years after the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. The report warns that mobilizing sufficient financing remains a major challenge in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite signs of progress, investments that are critical to achieving the SDGs remain underfunded and parts of the multilateral system are under strain.
This report lays out an agenda to enable societies around the world to undertake the kind of systemic actions that the transformation towards a low-emission, resilient future will require. It highlights 6 transformative areas and 20 actions that are key to aligning financial flows with climate and development goals in the areas of planning, innovation, public budgeting, financial systems, development finance and cities.