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2 February 2026

Kochi’s MetroConnect: Making the Last Mile Work for Public Transport

How a small fleet of electric buses is transforming urban mobility in one of India’s most congested cities

How do you get more people onto metros if they can’t reach the stations easily? That is the challenge Kochi, one of India’s most congested cities, set out to address. Despite massive investments in...

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30 January 2026

When Open Data Works

How to leverage electric vehicle ambitions with the NDC Transport Tracker

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21 January 2026

UN Honours the Marshall Islands’ Low Carbon Sea Transport Partnership

The LCST partnership has been awarded with the UN SIDS Partnership Award in the Environment category

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4 December 2025

Bridging Mobility, Industry, and Policy Innovation

The global community is slowly advancing a comprehensive decarbonisation of the transport sector, as most recently...
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16 July 2025

Morocco’s Role in the Global Mobility Debate: Key Takeaways from the Hamburg UITP Summit 2025

From June 15 to 18, 2025, the global public transport community convened in Hamburg for the...
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28 November 2024

Enhancing Child-Friendly Cities

In many cities worldwide, children often play on streets, which act as spaces for movement, leisure,...
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26 November 2024

COP29’s Impact on the Transport Sector – an Analysis

Without a clear mandate to transition the transport sector, progress will remain slow. Daniel Bongardt GIZ...
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18 July 2024

Transforming Transport in Asia: Innovations and Insights for a Low-Carbon Future

Aiming to chart a sustainable path for transportation towards zero emissions by mid-century and ensuring climate...
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22 March 2024

Sustainable Domestic Maritime Transport Roadmap in the Republic of the Marshall Islands

Roadmap Workshop Kick-Starts In Majuro Situated perilously close to the ocean, the Republic of the Marshall...
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14 December 2023

COP28 – The Dawn of a Post-Fossil Fuel Era

COP28 – the largest climate conference to date, with almost 97,000 registered participants – started with...
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27 November 2023

GIZ TRANSPORT AT COP28

In 2023, the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UNFCCC will...
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16 October 2023

Africa’s Journey Towards Sustainable Mobility

In an era where the global consensus increasingly gravitates towards cleaner and more sustainable transport solutions,...
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1 September 2023

What is happening on Sustainable Transport at the Africa Climate Summit & Africa Climate Week 2023?

The upcoming Africa Climate Summit 2023 is set to be a decisive gathering that will take...
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3 August 2023

Transforming Africa’s Transport Sector Through Networking: A Catalyst for Progress

GIZ is currently running a call for a first “Rethinking Transport Lab”, an exciting initiative designed...
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12 December 2022

“Creating a sectoral carbon budget makes climate action tangible

…Putting people in the center makes it approachable” This is how GIZ colleague Andrea Palma put...
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7 June 2022

Leapfrogging to sustainable mobility in Africa

By 2050, Africa is expected to be home to 2.5 billion people – many of whom...
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9 November 2021

How to Overcome the Crises?

A Discussion on Green Recovery and the Transition of Transport. Leaders at COP26 made it clear:...
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29 September 2021

Why is a bank interested in e-buses?

The electrification of bus fleets combines the benefits of public transport and electric mobility in terms...
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29 September 2021

Financing the Intermodal Freight Transport in Java, Indonesia

The Ministry of Transportation of the Republic of Indonesia and GIZ through TRANSfer III Project are...
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14 September 2021

Strengthening Urban Connectivity through ‘Buy the Service Program’ in Indonesia

The potential for population and urbanisation in accelerating the economic growth is constrained by traffic congestion....
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10 August 2021

New Training for Bankable Sustainable Mobility in Latin America

The formulation of bankable climate initiatives is one of the main challenges in Latin America to...
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5 July 2021

Out now! SLOCAT Transport and Climate Change Global Status Report – 2nd edition

Moving the world towards zero transport emissions requires fast and fundamental changes at all scales. Yet...
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29 June 2021

The Role of NUMPs in Promoting Electric Mobility in Uruguay

Due to urban growth of recent decades, governments of all regions have pointed out the relevance...
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22 June 2021

New Guide to Structure MRV Scheme for E-buses

The guide is available in English and Spanish, and is based in the learnings on the...
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17 June 2021

New Tool to Assess the Electrification of Public Fleet

The E-bus global tool is now available in Spanish, and soon will include English and French...
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11 February 2021

Financing Mechanism for Intermodal Freight Transport Action Programme in Java, Indonesia

Together with the Indonesian government, the TRANSfer project is working on shifting freight transport from road...
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6 August 2020

Taxes and Congestion Charges: Study Identifies Financing Mechanisms for Sustainable Mobility

With the aim of increasing the resources that can be allocated to sustainable urban mobility projects...
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4 June 2020

Future Mobility a Core Pillar in Germany’s COVID-19 Recovery Programme

To revive its virus struck economy, the German government agreed on a 130 billion Euro stimulus plan. Measures addressing the transport sector are...
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4 May 2020

Towards E-buses in Colombia

Public transport systems electrification is essential for the Colombian National Government in order to reduce GHG...
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20 April 2020

Cost-Benefit-Analysis

This tool presents guidance on how to conduct a Cost-Benefit-Analysis by explaining concepts and describing methodologies....
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20 March 2020

Picking Berlin and London’s Brains to design the Bangkok Clean Air Zone

Bangkok year-round suffers from severe air pollution (PM2.5 emissions), 72% of which being caused by the...
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15 September 2019

Pathway Towards Low-Carbon Transport in Vietnam

Rapid growth in transport activities since the late 1990s is endangering the achievement of climate targets...
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7 June 2019

Climate Finance is Key to Accelerate Action

Timely finance for the implementation of climate actions is both the key and the challenge to...
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10 December 2018

Press Release: Transport and Climate Change Global Status Report

Tracking Transport Emissions Trends, Raising Transport Policy Ambition* On 8 December, the SLoCaT Partnership released the...
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19 June 2018

MiTransporte

Mitigating emissions from the transport sector in Costa Rica
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12 April 2018

SUTRI NAMA and INDOBUS Projects Kick-off in Indonesia

The implementation agreement for the SUTRI NAMA and INDOBUS has been signed by the General Secretary...
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2 November 2017

Facilitating the Development of Ambitious Transport Mitigation Actions (TRANSfer)

Developing mitigation actions and facilitating access to climate finance.    
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30 September 2017

GIZ position paper on Climate Finance

This position paper serves as the basis for understanding the definition of climate finance that underpins...
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29 September 1991

Global Environment Facility

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) was established in 1991 and serves, like the GCF, as operating...
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30 September 1921

World Bank Group

The World Bank Group provides technical as well as financial assistance for many sustainable transport projects...
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30 September 1921

City creditworthiness self-assessment and planning toolkit

This toolkit is intended to help improved the creditworthiness and access to finance of local authorities...
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30 September 1921

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Since its creation, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has provided financing for transport...
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29 September 1921

Asian Development Bank

Expanded climate finance ambition is a key element of ADB’s efforts to support its Developing Member Countries...
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29 September 1921

WRI Learning Guide “Financing Sustainable Urban Development: An Introduction”

This interactive learning guide on “Financing Sustainable Urban Development: An Introduction” aims to support city officials...
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29 September 1921

Tool: Green City Finance Directory | Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance

The Green City Finance Directory is a useful tool for subnational governments and stakeholders to identify...
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29 September 1921

European Investment Bank (EIB)

The European Investment Bank (EIB) aims to advance the take-up of sustainable transport solutions by mobilising...
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9 September 1921

Content Overview Climate Finance Toolkit

This content overview helps you navigate through the toolkit. General information  This introductory chapter gives background...
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9 April 1921

Local Funding Options for Public Transportation

This report evaluates eighteen options for local funding instruments eligible to support finance public transport projects...
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29 January 1921

Guidelines for Building a National Landscape of Climate Finance

This guide draws lessons from the Climate Policy Initiative’s experience in developing national landscapes of general...
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30 December 1920

Green Bonds

Green bonds became an increasingly important innovative debt financing instrument to complement traditional public funding sources....
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9 December 1920

General Climate Finance Decision-Making

Where to start? Which financing tool suits your context?  This Climate Finance Decision Making Tree is...
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26 November 1920

Mastering Mobility Training on SUMPs and Finance

These materials are dedicated to the topic of finance, more specifically financing resources and the criteria...
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30 September 1920

Webinar on Urban Transportation and Climate Finance

This webinar introduces to climate finance in relation to urban transportation. The primary focus is on...
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29 August 1920

Climate finance: 2019 Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks’ Climate Finance

The nineth edition of the Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks’ Climate Finance provides a general...
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22 April 1920

EUROCLIMA+ Webinars: Financing

This tool includes a series of webinars held by Euroclima+ on several cross cutting topics in...
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20 April 1920

Overview of Financing Options/Sources

These studies give an overview of possible financial mechanisms and design elements to take into consideration...
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16 March 1920

Zero-Emission Bus Seminars from Latin America

Many Latin American countries have deployed zero-emission buses in various cities. The successful transition of urban...
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7 March 1920

Best Practice Financing

Two reports on financing mechanisms from the Philippines and from Brazil show best practice examples. In...
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6 January 1920

Case Studies for Financial Support of Ecodriving

Three examples of subsidy structures for eco-driving initiatives in the UK, USA and Germany. Commercial Motor...
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30 November 1919

Global Landscape of Climate Finance

This report provides a comprehensive overview of global climate-related primary investment and tracks how much public...
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30 September 1919

Progress Report of the MDB Working Group on Sustainable Transport

This progress report informs about the progress and achievements of the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) in...
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31 August 1919

The potential of Land value capture (LVC) to finance public transport

The rapid growth of cities in developing countries and associated positive trends in economy and real...
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30 December 1916

Transport Readiness for and Access to Climate Finance

This webinar provides a good introduction and overview on climate finance within the transport sector. It...
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30 April 1916

Handbook on Urban Infrastructure Finance

This comprehensive handbook explores financing instruments and innovative, sustainable revenue sources for cities to overcome infrastructure...
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30 December 1915

Financing Urban Transportation Policies and Programs

This webinar explores low-carbon urban mobility plans and focuses on planning and financing. Issues around the...
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29 September 1915

Green Climate Fund

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the largest climate fund and supports developing countries in their...
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30 June 1915

Alternative Financing Sources for Sustainable Transport

Public-Private-Partnerships and Institutional Investors This paper was prepared for the Hong Kong Roundtable on Enhancing Private...
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30 November 1914

Mobilising Private Sector Financing for Sustainable Transport

This background paper was prepared for the Eighth Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum in Asia,...
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31 January 1914

Transport Readiness for Climate Finance

A framework to access climate finance in the transport sector This paper informs about the necessary...
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9 April 1913

Financing Needs for Sustainable Transport Systems for the 21st Century

This background paper was presented at the 7th Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport Form in Asia, taking...
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9 December 1911

World Bank Tranportation PPP Toolkits

The World Bank developed and collected a range of transportation toolkits on the establishment of public-private...
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29 September 1908

Clean Technology Fund

The Clean Technology Fund is one of the two multi-donor trust funds under the Climate Investment...
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If you believe that you suffer (potential) negative social and/or environmental consequences from IKI projects, or wish to report the improper use of funds, to voice complaints and seek redress, you can do so using the IKI Independent Complaint Mechanism.