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High Hopes for the Green Climate Fund: 5 Messages on Private Sector Engagement

  • Business
  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
Farmers engage in climate-smart agriculture in Ghana. Photo credit: C Peterson (CIAT/CCAFS)
  • Business
  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
Insights

India’s Watershed Development Boosts Food Security, Improves Livelihoods

  • Food
  • Freshwater
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • food security
  • low carbon development
  • water risk
India has long-battled its water scarcity issues throughout an approach called watershed development. Photo credit: M. DeFreese/CIMMYT
  • Food
  • Freshwater
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • food security
  • low carbon development
  • water risk
Insights
  • Climate Resilience
Insights

How Civil Society Groups Can Help Expand Energy Efficiency

  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • Energy Access
  • energy efficiency
  • public participation
Involving civil society organizations in the energy efficiency standards and labeling process could increase the uptake of energy-efficient appliances. Photo credit: Acumen Fund, Flickr
  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • Energy Access
  • energy efficiency
  • public participation
News

WRI's Stories to Watch in 2014

Insights
  • climate change

7 Ways to Attract and Use Climate Finance for Transport

  • Climate
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • transportation
A Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in Curitiba, Brazil. Photo credit: whl.travel
  • Climate
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • transportation
Insights

What Does it Take for Successful Forest Landscape Restoration?

  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Forests
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest. Photo credit: Neil Palmer, CIAT
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Forests
Insights

World’s 36 Most Water-Stressed Countries

  • Aqueduct
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
37 countries face extremely high water stress, including Pakistan (shown here). Photo credit: Russell Watkins, DFID
  • Aqueduct
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
Data

Aqueduct Country and River Basin Rankings [Datasets]

  • Business
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
  • rivers
  • data
  • Business
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
  • rivers
  • data
Data

Water Stress by Country

Data

Aqueduct Country and River Basin Rankings [Map]

  • Business
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
  • rivers
  • mapping
  • Business
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
  • rivers
  • mapping

Overlapping Land and Natural Resource Rights Creates Conflict in Africa

  • agriculture
  • land rights
  • natural resources
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
In much of Africa, companies' and rural communities' property rights overlap, creating conflict. Photo credit: T. Samson/CIMMYT
  • agriculture
  • land rights
  • natural resources
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Insights

4 Ways Cities Benefit from Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)

  • public transit
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety
New research shows that bus rapid transit (BRT) systems like Bogotá's TransMilenio (pictured) have a wide range of benefits for quality of life in cities. Photo by EMBARQ.
  • public transit
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety

5 Ways Wisconsin Can Reduce Power Plant Emissions

  • fossil fuels
  • Energy
  • energy efficiency
  • U.S. policy
  • power plants
  • regulation
  • renewable energy
  • fossil fuels
  • Energy
  • energy efficiency
  • U.S. policy
  • power plants
  • regulation
  • renewable energy
President Obama
  • Top Outcome: 2013