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Tackling Central Africa's Water and Power Challenges Starts with Restoring Nature

  • nature-based solutions
  • urban water resilience
  • adaptation
  • floods
  • restoration
  • Climate Resilience
  • Solutions in Focus
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
The bare hillsides of Bukavu being restored and stabilized
  • nature-based solutions
  • urban water resilience
  • adaptation
  • floods
  • restoration
  • Climate Resilience
  • Solutions in Focus
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
Insights

Solving World's Housing Crisis Requires More than New Construction

  • housing
  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
People walking in Kibera, one of Africa's largest slums
  • housing
  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
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Multilevel Collaboration Advances Zero Emission and Resilient Buildings in Colombia, Kenya and the Philippines

  • Cities
  • Buildings
  • National Climate Action
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
People attending an event.
  • Cities
  • Buildings
  • National Climate Action
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate

STATEMENT: COP30 Elevates Major Efforts to Unite Local, Regional and National Governments on Climate Action

  • COP30
  • NDC
  • National Climate Action
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • extreme heat
  • Urban Development
  • Cities
  • COP30
  • NDC
  • National Climate Action
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • extreme heat
  • Urban Development
  • Cities
Insights

Despite Some Progress, Countries’ New Climate Plans Largely Fall Short

  • NDC
  • climate change
  • climate policy
  • National Climate Action
  • COP30
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • climatewatch-pinned
Two workers install solar panels on the corrugated metal roof of a shop.
  • NDC
  • climate change
  • climate policy
  • National Climate Action
  • COP30
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • climatewatch-pinned
Update

Advancing Local Climate Action for Ambitious NDCs 3.0

  • NDC
  • Cities
  • National Climate Action
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
Aerial view of high-rise buildings on a sunny day in Nairobi.
  • NDC
  • Cities
  • National Climate Action
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate

STATEMENT: Colombia Updates its Climate Commitments to 2035

  • NDC
  • COP30
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • NDC
  • COP30
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
Insights

Beyond the Thermometer: 5 Heat Metrics That Drive Better Decision-Making

  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Climate
  • climate science
A person bicycles past a sign that reads 35 degrees Celsius.
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Climate
  • climate science
Update

WRI and Partners Launch Zero Emissions and Resilient Buildings (ZERB) Accelerator at COP29

  • Buildings
  • Climate Resilience
  • GHG emissions
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Cities
  • COP29
View of skyscrapers and trees in a downtown area.
  • Buildings
  • Climate Resilience
  • GHG emissions
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Cities
  • COP29
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Countries Have Been Overlooking Their Biggest Climate Allies: Local and Regional Governments

  • Cities
  • National Climate Action
  • NDC
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • COP30
Families sit and play on a grassy hill at a park overlooking a city.
  • Cities
  • National Climate Action
  • NDC
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • COP30
Insights

Global Climate Pledges: A Progress Report

  • NDC
  • COP29
  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • National Climate Action
  • transportation
  • pollution
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • climatewatch-pinned
Workers repair a damaged wind turbine blade
  • NDC
  • COP29
  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • National Climate Action
  • transportation
  • pollution
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • climatewatch-pinned

What Would Cities Look Like With 3 Degrees C of Warming vs. 1.5? Far More Hazardous and Vastly Unequal

  • Cities
  • extreme heat
  • Climate
  • Equity & Governance
  • climate change
  • health
  • data visualization
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
A woman carries water during a blistering hot day in New Delhi, India.
  • Cities
  • extreme heat
  • Climate
  • Equity & Governance
  • climate change
  • health
  • data visualization
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate

Campinas, Brazil, Launches Integrated Climate Action Plan

  • National Climate Action
  • Climate
  • Climate Governance
  • greenhouse gases
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
A pamphlet about Campinas's climate action plan is held up before a city hall audience.
  • National Climate Action
  • Climate
  • Climate Governance
  • greenhouse gases
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate

The Future of Extreme Heat in Cities: What We Know — and What We Don’t

  • extreme heat
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Development
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate impacts
  • climate science
  • data visualization
Brick layers during in a heatwave in New Delhi, India
  • extreme heat
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Development
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate impacts
  • climate science
  • data visualization
Insights

Cities Need a Systems-change Approach to Build Climate-resilient Communities

  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Climate Resilience
Looking down at city buildings, some with green roofs and the street below.
  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Climate Resilience
Update

RELEASE: ‘Cities Race to Resilience’ Campaign Launched to Mobilize Action Ahead of COP26

  • urban water resilience
  • climate change
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
People on a boat and a person wading through a river
  • urban water resilience
  • climate change
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
Initiatives

Urban Development

A group of children of various ages sitting together on a cement bench in Recife, Brazil.