CoAct Database

Leadership for Urban Climate Investment (LUCI)

Leadership for Urban Climate Investment (LUCI) is a framework that elevates and tracks commitments made by Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (the Alliance) member initiatives, helping them to implement bold and effective targets. The LUCI framework enables these ambitious targets by catalyzing action along the entire value chain of subnational climate finance from project conception through financing. Hosted by the Alliance, LUCI was initiated by a multi-stakeholder coalition led by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU) at the UN SG Climate Summit in 2019.

Activity period	2019–present
Last CoAct update	2023
Web URL	https://citiesclimatefinance.org/programs/luci
Output effectiveness	0.40
Accountability Index	0.27
Inclusiveness Index	0.40
Num. actors	27
Functions	Knowledge production, Knowledge dissemination, Technical implementation, Standards and norms, Campaigning, Funding, Policy planning
SDGs
Themes	human settlements, finance
Policy focus	Equal focus
Sectors	Financial and insurance activities
Implementation countries	Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, France, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland (the)

Target	Target type
Strengthen the capacity of 2000 cities in project preparation by 2025	Organisations engaged target
Enable 100 climate-smart urban infrastructure projects to use new financing mechanisms by 2025	Organisations engaged target
Make 1000 climate-smart urban projects bankable by 2025	Organisations engaged target
1.1 trillion dollars	Funding target
1000 bankable climate-smart urban projects by 2030 and 100 Climate smart urban projects to use new financing mechanisms by 2025	Other target