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Featured Maps & Data
Shale Resources and Water Risks
mapThis interactive atlas explores water availability across shale gas and tight oil resources.
Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change
videoSecuring community land rights help maintain healthier forests and lower CO2 emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
Forests are one of three major approaches for reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere (the other two are energy efficiency and low-carbon energy sources).
Note: this chart updates the original chart in Navigating the Numbers with 2005 data.
This chart shows how emissions from the major emitting countries contribute t
This chart assesses potential green-program impacts per $1 billion of U.S. government economic-recovery spending.
U.S. Regional Cap-and-Trade Programs
Note: this map has been updated: click here to view the update.
With technical and policy advice from WRI, three mandatory regional carbon trading markets are being establishe
Climate change is upon us. The earth is warming, seasons are shifting, species are migrating, and water is flowing in new patterns. The accelerating and deepening impacts of climate change will touch everyone on earth, but those who stand to suffer most are the poor.
Climate change is upon us. The earth is warming, seasons are shifting, species are migrating, and water is flowing in new patterns. The accelerating and deepening impacts of climate change will touch everyone on earth, but those who stand to suffer most are the poor.
A continuum of actions can be taken to reduce the impacts felt from climate change--from ‘pure’ development activities on the one hand to very explicit adaptation measures on the other.
At one
Analysis of the Ecoflation scenario shows a significant impact on the cost of commodities, due to a variety of factors including climate policy, climate change (and increased water scarc
