Insights: WRI's Blog

Seven factors provide a degree of hope that simply didn’t exist a decade ago. None of these on their own will bring about the required tipping point, but combined with smart political outreach, they can provide momentum for systemic change.

The blunt truth about COP25, the international climate summit in Madrid, is that countries failed to make the progress needed toward meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Badly designed climate action can leave people behind. Here are five ways governments can create fair policies and ensure climate justice.

Most scientific reports on climate look at changes since the pre-industrial era or since record-keeping began. But even looking at the past decade, it’s clear that our world today is very different from the world of 2010, thanks to climate change.

Fifteen states now have official targets to get at least 50% of their electricity from clean sources. These states represent 28% of U.S. electric power demand, up from just 17% last year.

On average, almost two-thirds of urban residents across 15 cities in the global South lack access to safely managed sanitation, with access lowest in cities of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

The financial losses from illegal trade in fish are huge, and even bigger if you factor in the economic activity and tax revenue that would have followed from fish entering the formal economy.

Scientists found that warming will increase the spread of Ebola virus, reduce emperor penguin populations by up to 80% by 2100, and cause hurricanes and other extreme weather to stick around longer. This post summarizes these and other studies published in October and November 2019.

Urban climate action is good for the planet. How do you make it good for people, too?

Coral reef tourism, worth $35.8 billion globally every year, could experience revenue losses of over 90% based on the current trajectory of warming. Here's how ocean industries can try to avoid that kind of devastation.