In 2025, urban sustainability has ceased to be a matter of “good intentions” and has become a competitiveness strategy. In the United States, the deployment of federal funds —such as the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund— is financing high-impact municipal plans and projects. By November 2024, more than $4.3 billion had been allocated to 25 state and local governments, along with an additional $27 billion earmarked for distributed climat
