WRI Insights

A unique partnership in North Carolina’s Triangle region demonstrates how cities can better collaborate across jurisdictions to secure their water supply by protecting and improving natural infrastructure. Their success with this model can serve as an inspiration for other communities looking to protect their water resources.

This episode of WRI’s “Big Ideas Into Action” podcast examines energy resilience in Texas and Tamil Nadu, India.

A new UN report finds that countries’ emissions-reduction commitments under the Paris Agreement are falling far short of what’s needed to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

The Biden administration said it will set a new emissions-reduction target before the Leaders' Climate Summit in April 2021. A 50% reduction by 2030 is both achievable and attainable, and would provide major economic and social benefits for America.

CAW partnered with green finance experts Encourage Capital and WRI to pioneer the first-ever certified green bond to acquire forests for watershed protection. This bond offers important lessons to invest in forests for water quality

While Texas experiences the harshest winter storm in decades, some pundits are blaming wind turbines for blackouts. In reality, the blackouts in Texas are a resilience and planning problem, and more resilient energy systems are part of the solution.

President Biden signed an executive order that gives federal agencies 90 days to devise a plan for a zero-emission federal fleet in the United States. These four recommendations can help guide the federal fleet transition plan toward best outcomes.

Climate impacts can cause financial losses from property damage, disrupted supply chains and more. According to WRI research, businesses may lack the resources they need to properly assess the full gamut of physical climate risks.

Colombia's new Nationally Determined Contribution to the Paris climate agreement is one of the most ambitious in Latin America. These three lessons from Colombia’s NDC could help other developing countries update their climate action plans.

Despite making up more than half of the world’s 3 billion rural people, merely 14% of agricultural landowners globally are women. Five communities offer lessons on how women can realize their rights to community land.