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The Little Book of City Climate Finance is a guide that outlines the challenges of urban climate financing and the components required to develop a city climate finance roadmap to meet mitigation and adaptation goals.

This report summarizes the Sixth Annual Meeting of the San Giorgio Group, held on 8-9 May 2017 in Venice. The discussions focused on scaling up green, low-emissions finance by improving climate finance tracking, evolving financial architecture in emerging markets, overcoming funding constraints for cities, utilizing innovative financial instruments, and enhancing climate risk disclosure to accelerate the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

This case study examines the landscape of climate change financing for cities in Indonesia, with a specific focus on the city of Kupang. It analyzes the availability of international, national, and local funds, identifies significant governance and funding gaps at the municipal level, and proposes the establishment of a local trust fund to better mobilize and manage climate finance for mitigation and adaptation.