El Estado de la Financiación Climática de las Ciudades

This executive summary of the 2021 State of Cities Climate Finance report, produced by the Alliance for Leadership in City Climate Finance with World Bank contributions, analyzes global urban climate investment flows, identifies barriers to funding, and proposes frameworks to mobilize the trillions of dollars needed for low-carbon and resilient urban development.

• Annual urban climate finance flows averaged an estimated 384 billion USD in 2017/2018, which is significantly lower than the estimated annual needs of 4.5 to 5.4 trillion USD.
• Climate finance is heavily concentrated in OECD countries and China, leaving developing regions severely underfunded. For example, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa saw average annual investments of only 4 billion USD and 3 billion USD, respectively.
• There is a stark imbalance between mitigation and adaptation funding; investment in urban climate adaptation and resilience averaged 7 billion USD, representing only 9% of project-level data.
• Private finance, particularly household spending on electric vehicles and residential energy efficiency, accounted for 35% of total urban climate finance, averaging 136 billion USD annually in 2017/2018.
• The International Finance Corporation (IFC) identifies a sustainable investment opportunity of 2.4 to 2.5 trillion USD annually until 2030 in emerging market cities across six sectors: waste, climate-smart water, renewable energy, electric vehicles, public transport, and green buildings.
• Cities act as both providers (through green procurement, service delivery, and fundraising) and administrators (through regulations, standards, and system-level planning) to mobilize climate investment.
• The COVID-19 pandemic has strained municipal budgets and increased reliance on intergovernmental fiscal transfers, creating a risk that high-emission and vulnerable development paths become 'locked in' if climate considerations are not integrated into recovery efforts.

APA

Climate Policy Initiative (2021). El Estado de la Financiación Climática de las Ciudades. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Executive-Summary-Spanish.pdf

Chicago

Climate Policy Initiative. El Estado de la Financiación Climática de las Ciudades. 2021. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Executive-Summary-Spanish.pdf.

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatepolicyinitiative2021estado, author = {{Climate Policy Initiative}}, title = {{El Estado de la Financiación Climática de las Ciudades}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2021}, month = jun, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Executive-Summary-Spanish.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }