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    Urban Heat & Passive Cooling

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    Insights
    April 16, 2026

    Urban Trees: An Underused Tool for Keeping People Cool

    • extreme heat
    • Climate
    • Cities
    • Urban Development
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    • extreme heat
    • Climate
    • Cities
    • Urban Development
    Cities
    Insights
    March 24, 2026

    Charted: How Could Rising Temperatures Affect Your City?

    • Cities
    • climate change
    • extreme heat
    • health
    • Energy
    • Urban Development
    Group of people walking on road during heat wave in New Delhi
    • Cities
    • climate change
    • extreme heat
    • health
    • Energy
    • Urban Development
    Cities
    Data
    March 17, 2026

    Cool Cities Lab

    • Cities
    • Urban Development
    • nature-based solutions
    • adaptation
    • infrastructure
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    • extreme heat
    • Cities
    • Urban Development
    • nature-based solutions
    • adaptation
    • infrastructure
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    • extreme heat
    Cities
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    News
    November 12, 2025

    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
    Cities
    Latin America
    Update
    November 11, 2025

    WRI Joins New Beat the Heat Initiative on Cooling Solutions for Cities, Launched at COP30

    • Cities
    • Urban Development
    • extreme heat
    • COP30
    Beat the Heat Initiative launch in Belem, Brazil
    • Cities
    • Urban Development
    • extreme heat
    • COP30
    Cities
    Insights
    July 16, 2025

    Cities Are Heating Up. Better Infrastructure Can Cool Them Down.

    • extreme heat
    • Cities
    • infrastructure
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    • extreme heat
    • Cities
    • infrastructure
    Cities
    Insights
    March 17, 2025

    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
    Cities
    Europe
    Insights
    November 27, 2024

    Europe’s Cities Should Prepare for Hotter, More Hazardous Days Ahead

    • Climate
    • extreme heat
    • Energy
    • climate change
    • health
    • Cities
    • Urban Development
    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    People stand near a fountain during a London heat wave.
    • Climate
    • extreme heat
    • Energy
    • climate change
    • health
    • Cities
    • Urban Development
    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    Cities
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    Insights
    September 17, 2024

    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
    Cities
    Insights
    September 10, 2024

    What Happens When Extreme Heat and Air Pollution Collide

    • extreme heat
    • Air Quality
    • pollution
    • health
    • Cities
    • Urban Development
    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    A group looks over a hazy Mexico City, Mexico, from the top of Cerro de la Estrella in April 2021. Days earlier, the city registered an ozone concentration of 160 parts per billion.
    • extreme heat
    • Air Quality
    • pollution
    • health
    • Cities
    • Urban Development
    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    Finance
    Insights
    August 30, 2024

    How the Climate Finance Puzzle Fits into the Global Financial System

    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • adaptation finance
    • COP29
    • Paris Agreement
    • International Climate Action
    • COP30
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    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • adaptation finance
    • COP29
    • Paris Agreement
    • International Climate Action
    • COP30
    Cities
    Insights
    June 25, 2024

    As the Earth Gets Hotter, Can Our Cities Get Cooler?

    • extreme heat
    • climate change
    • Cities
    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    • nature-based solutions
    • data visualization
    A line of tourists await the use of the fountain at the base of Rome’s Spanish Steps to cool off.
    • extreme heat
    • climate change
    • Cities
    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    • nature-based solutions
    • data visualization
    Cities
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    Insights
    November 29, 2023

    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
    Cities
    Update
    July 5, 2023

    New Data Dashboard Helps Cities Build Urban Resilience in a Changing Climate

    • Cities
    • nature-based solutions
    • climate policy
    • Air Quality
    • GHG emissions
    • biodiversity
    • land use
    • Urban Development
    Aerial view of skyscrapers and urban development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
    • Cities
    • nature-based solutions
    • climate policy
    • Air Quality
    • GHG emissions
    • biodiversity
    • land use
    • Urban Development
    Cities
    Insights
    February 15, 2023

    5 Priorities for Urban Climate Action in 2023 and Beyond

    • transportation
    • electric mobility
    • Freshwater
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • nature-based solutions
    • poverty
    • human rights
    A new electric bus in New Delhi, India
    • transportation
    • electric mobility
    • Freshwater
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • nature-based solutions
    • poverty
    • human rights