This web page highlights the role of buildings in the energy transition (heating, cooling, lighting, etc), and presents data and recommendations.
This report aims to help local governments understand various financing instruments and sources available to them to meet climate investment needs.
This factsheet helps local governments understand the structural components of setting up local climate funds, including identifying attractive financial models and the different ways to support financing the local climate transition.
This slide deck provides a quick introduction to gender-responsive climate finance and the role of women’s groups in pursuing it.
This paper underscores the need for sustainable utilities to deliver the energy transition in lower- and middle-income countries, and provides recommendations to governments and other stakeholders.
This web page gives advice on public advocacy for energy efficiency, focusing on four concepts: Getting the message right; Getting the message across; Combining information with behavioural insights; and Campaigns for a crisis context.
This guide explains how cities can develop energy transition roadmaps that can create platforms for collaboration with other stakeholders and attract investment.
This paper explains how minimum energy performance standards for buildings can be implemented effectively while remaining socially just, using a differentiated approach that carefully follows a series of design principles.
This guidance note outlines how cities can tap into a wide array of proven technologies, policies, and financing mechanisms to improve energy efficiency and capture cost-effective energy savings in buildings.
This guidebook helps practitioners adopt a holistic approach to sustainable neighbourhood design, integrating the design of efficient energy, water, wastewater and solid waste systems, and low energy mobility.