Integrating Urban and Subnational Priorities into Country Platforms
This paper presents a framework for urban-inclusive country platforms, aiming to support national governments in systematically integrating urban and subnational needs into the design, governance, financing, and implementation of country platforms.
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Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance
SDSN Global Commission for Urban SDG Finance
Filling the vast financing gap to meet the Paris Agreement goals requires significantly scaling up urban climate finance. This can help to harness cities’ great emissions reduction potential and build resilience to the increasing climate-related impacts they face.
Urban climate finance must grow by at least fivefold, to USD 4.3 trillion per year, for cities to meet their mitigation targets by 2030 (CCFLA 2024a). This demands rapid, coordinated action across all levels of government to align development and climate finance with national, regional, and local priorities. Funds must also be deployed strategically to maximize impact. Country platforms are a key emerging mechanism for increasing climate and development finance. Led by national governments, these instruments can provide a powerful means of fostering collaboration among development partners around a shared strategic vision and priorities (Gilmour et al., 2024).
Country platforms help to advance recipient nations’ transformational goals in priority areas—including climate finance—with international support to scale up investment. To realize country platforms’ full potential, national governments can opt to incorporate urban and subnational climate objectives in their design and priorities