Urban Living Lab Facility

The Urban Living Lab Facility has been launched to create synergies with other related projects working in the UP areas and regions. 
​The facility focuses on knowledge exchange, co-creation of innovative solutions, their testing and implementation. 

Urban Pathways is collaborating with different institutions and networks to create synergies with other projects in the field of sustainable urban development in the sectors energy, mobility and resources. 

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​Urban Pathways Facility
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UNEP - Integrating electric 2&3 wheelers into existing urban transport modes
Collaboration I 03.17 - 02.21 I International Climate Initiative 
This project develops programs in six countries from two sub-regions to start the transition from internal combustion engine to electric and non-motorized 2&3 wheelers, to reduce transport emissions.

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GIZ - ICT Based adaptation to climate change in cities
Collaboration I 2017 - 2021 I BMU, ICI
Information and communication technologies (ICT)-based approaches to collect, assess and simulate local climate-scenarios enable city administrations and political representatives to obtain the necessary information for developing and implementing local adaptation strategies.

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UN-Habitat - Climate resiliency in urban planning
Collaboration I UN-Habitat
The Cities and Climate Change Initiative (CCCI) seeks to enhance the preparedness and mitigation activities of cities in developing countries. It emphasizes good governance, responsibility, leadership, and practical initiatives for local governments, communities, and citizens.

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MobiliseYourCity
Collaboration I MobiliseYourCity
The MobiliseYourCity Partnership is a global and inclusive network of cities and countries as well as an umbrella brand of European development cooperation particularly related to the field of sustainable urban transport.

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Felicity: Sustainable solutions for cities
Collaboration I BMUB, ICI
FELICITY stands for Financing Energy for Low-carbon Investment - Cities Advisory Facility, and is a joint initiative of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). It is funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB).

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Ambitious cities promises: Commitments for low-carbon urban development in Southeast Asian large cities
Collaboration I 1.17 - 6.20 I ICI
The project aims to support selected large cities in Indonesia, the Philippines and Viet Nam to establish strong local climate action plans through concrete targets, enhanced multi-stakeholder engagement and integrated strategies.

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Cities Fit for Climate Change
Collaboration I 2015 - 2019 I BMU, BMI, IKI
The project supports implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC ) and the Habitat III process aimed at setting a new urban agenda, among other initiatives. The project is guided by the Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities and the Memorandum ‘Urban Energies – Urban Challenges’ of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB).

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Energy Solutions for Cities of the Future
Collaboration I 2017 - 2019 I IKI
The project aims to empower cities to deploy renewable energy through a) increased knowledge on policy and regulatory frameworks, b) capacity building at municipal level, c) tools and information on technology solutions, and d) identification of synergies among cities to share best practice and replicate innovative solutions.

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C40
Collaboration I C40
C40 is a network of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climate change. C40 supports cities to collaborate effectively, share knowledge and drive meaningful, measurable and sustainable action on climate change.

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India Sustainable Mobility Initiative
Collaboration I IKI
The Government of India plans a major investment in urban transport. As then-Chief Minister of Gujarat, the present Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, oversaw the creation of Ahmedabad Janmarg, India’s first high-quality bus rapid transit (BRT) system, together with zoning and parking reforms, the best in the country.

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UN-HABITAT: Climate resiliency in urban planning
Collaboration I 2017 - 2020 I IKI
UN-Habitat launched a new Project under its Cities and Climate Change Initiative (CCCI) on ‘pro-poor planning for climate resilience in marginalized neighbourhoods’. The Project’s first activities took place in partnering cities and communities in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Fiji, Jamaica, and the Solomon Islands. The Project aims at strengthening capacities of communities and local governments to address the climate challenge through building climate resilience in informal settlement contexts.

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Cities Matter: Capacity Building in Sub-Saharan Africa megacities for transformational climate change mitigation
Collaboration I 2017 - 2020 I IKI
This project aims to: a) build technical capacity within nine African cities to develop long-term climate action plans, b) develop an innovative, consistent and comprehensive approach to a transformative city low carbon development, c) identify mechanisms to facilitate better national and local integration of climate mitigation activities. 

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Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI)
​Collaboration I 2017 I GIZ
The Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) enables leaders in developing countries and emerging economies to create sustainable urban mobility. It offers technical and financial support for innovative ideas. In TUMI the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has brought together some of the world’s leading institutions working on sustainable mobility with city networks and think tanks to implement projects on site where they are needed most. Partners include ADB, CAF, WRI, ITDP, UN-Habitat, SLoCaT, ICLEI, GIZ, KfW and C40. 

Urban Pathways Kick-off conference - 150 stakeholders from 30 countries

GIZ - ICT-Based adaptation to climate change in cities

UNEP - Integrating electric 2&3 wheelers into existing urban transport modes

UN-HABITAT: Climate resiliency in urban planning

Collaboration with MobiliseYourCity

Exploring synergies with Felicity

ICLEI - Ambitious cities promises

GIZ - Cities fit for Climate Change

IRENA - Energy solutions for cities of the future

C40 - Cities Matter

UN-HABITAT - Climate resiliency in urban planning 

ITDP - India Sustainable Mobility Initiative

Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative

Open Streets Cape Town

​Urban Pathways Kick-off meeting with hundred experts and city representatives from 30 countries

The ‘Urban Pathways: Supporting Low Carbon Plans for Basic Services in the context of the New Urban Agenda’ project kicked off with a training week from 16 to 20 October 2017 in Berlin. More than a hundred experts and city representatives from 30 countries took part in the event. The project is being implemented by UN Habitat, together with its partners, the Wuppertal Institute of Climate, Energy and Environment, UN Environment, and a network of cities and regional experts. It aims to develop a number of specific steps that large cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America can take on the path to establishing low-carbon mobility, energy management and waste disposal systems.