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The objectives of this Handbook are to help raise awareness among local stakeholders regarding climate finance and its potential in the built environment, given the important role that this sector has to play in climate change mitigation. It also aims to help local governments to use climate finance mechanisms as an opportunity to increase the energy performance of their district whilst creating additional revenue, improve resource efficiency and support their wider climate strategies. The International context includes recent negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), with ambitions to reach a new, legally binding agreement by 2015 for meaningful GHG emission reductions, but against a backdrop of slow progress to date. The role that cities have to play is increasingly being recognised at the international level, and some cities are already showing leadership above and beyond that of national commitments.