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Foreword

This publication was developed within the framework of the United for Smart Sustainable Cities
(U4SSC) initiative.

Acknowledgements

In 2016, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), together with the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU), launched the global initiative United for Smart
Sustainable Cities (U4SSC). One of the aims of U4SSC is to develop guidance and training materials
for city leaders to make their cities smarter and more sustainable and to support the achievement
of international agreements, such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda)
and the New Urban Agenda.

In 2017, under the umbrella of U4SSC, the secretariat of the Committee started developing the
“Guidelines on tools and mechanisms to finance smart sustainable cities”.

UNECE would like to extend its sincere gratitude to all co-authors including Raul Garcia Rodriguez
(Deloitte Advisory Director for Sustainability Services CZ&SK, and Sustainable Real Estate Leader),
Pedro Neves (Member of the UNECE Business Advisory Board and SDG Task Force Leader for PPP
Unit at the UNECE) and Nadiia Olarean (Yeremenko) (UNECE Consultant).

UNECE would also like to thank Max Goodall and Jean-Marie McAdams (UNECE Consultants) for
their inputs to the discussion along with relevant feedback and/or review.

The UNECE wish to thank the U4SSC management team: Nasser Al Marzouqi (U4SSC Chair), H.E. Ms
Katrina Naut, Abdurahman M. Al Hassan, Paolo Gemma, Tania Marcos and Giampiero Bambagioni
(U4SSC Vice-Chair) for their assistance and contributions.

The UNECE is also grateful to the contributing organizations and representative: Oliver Hillel from
the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Lucy Winchester and Vera Kiss from the Economic
Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Simone Borelli from the Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), Cristina Bueti and Mythili Menon (ITU), Iryna Usava from the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP), James Murombedzi from the United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa (UNECA), Guilherme Canela from the Regional Bureau for Sciences in Latin
America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO), Martina Otto and Sharon Gil from United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP),
Matthew Ulterino from the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI),
Motsomi Maletjane from the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC),
Andre Dzikus, Tania Lim, Jean Yves and Robert Lewis-Lettington from the United Nations Human
Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Mark Draeck, Katarina Barunica Spoljaric and Nicholas
Dehod from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), William Kennedy

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