ABSTRACT
International climate change mechanisms could deliver the financial, technological and capacity-building support needed to help achieve the multiple benefits. This chapter surveys how formal climate finance and informal city and sectoral networks have evolved to help cities recognize and realize climate and other sustainability objectives. It shows there is an emerging ecosystem of formal climate and informal cooperation schemes assisting cities to achieve joint climate and developmental ends. Formal mechanisms are equipping policymakers with the knowledge and tools to recognize an expanding range of co-benefits while encouraging policymakers to take the bottom-up actions needed to realize those benefits. The chapter argues that informal city and sectoral networks should aim to build capacities for planning and acquiring external support and to lobby for reforms that help to link that support to the dynamic needs of cities above and beyond mitigating climate change. It reflects on possible interactions, convergence and integration between formal climate and informal city and sectoral networks.
