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    DRC Uganda Zimbabwe Africa
    Cities
    Africa
    Update
    January 24, 2023

    Non-Motorized Transport Corridor – Kampala, Uganda

    • Health & Road Safety
    • Road Safety Project Updates
    Non-Motorized Transport Corridor – Kampala, Uganda
    • Health & Road Safety
    • Road Safety Project Updates
    Forests
    Africa
    Update
    January 17, 2023

    Promotion of Charcoal Alternative May Help Fight Deforestation in Virunga National Park

    • Forests
    • forest products
    • forest monitoring
    Clouds settle over the mountains in Virunga National Park in DRC.
    • Forests
    • forest products
    • forest monitoring
    Equity & Governance
    Asia Africa Latin America
    Insights
    November 1, 2022

    Logrando la adaptación dirigida localmente: ejemplos de todo el mundo

    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation
    People building sea wall.
    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation
    Equity & Governance
    Asia Africa Latin America
    Insights
    November 1, 2022

    Getting Locally Led Adaptation Right: Examples from Around the World

    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation
    • COP28
    People building sea wall.
    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation
    • COP28
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    June 22, 2021

    How the Charcoal Industry Threatens DRC's Forests

    • deforestation
    Someone standing next to a pile of timber in the DRC, which will be used to create charcoal.
    • deforestation
    Cities
    Initiatives
    June 15, 2021

    TUMI E-Bus Mission

    Transmilenio electric transit bus charging at an electric bus depot in Bogota, Colombia
    Energy
    Africa
    Insights
    February 3, 2021

    Energy Access Is Key to Sub-Saharan Africa's Economic Recovery

    • Energy Access
    • Energy
    • coronavirus
    • electric grid
    • Economics
    • agriculture
    • Finance
    • fossil fuels
    • health
    • renewable energy
    A young South African woman holds up a cloth face mask next to a sewing machine.
    • Energy Access
    • Energy
    • coronavirus
    • electric grid
    • Economics
    • agriculture
    • Finance
    • fossil fuels
    • health
    • renewable energy
    Cities
    Asia Latin America
    News
    December 18, 2019

    RELEASE: Safe, Affordable Sanitation a Pipe Dream for Too Many Households in Global South

    • Towards a More Equal City
    • sanitation
    • waste
    • Cities
    • health
    • Towards a More Equal City
    • sanitation
    • waste
    • Cities
    • health
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    October 25, 2019

    Attention Investors: African Entrepreneurs Are Restoring Land and Making Profit

    • Forests
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    Caroline Kariuki co-founded GreenPot Enterprises to help farmer-investors plant bamboo and restore degraded land in Kenya. Photo by Will Anderson/WRI.
    • Forests
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    Climate
    Africa
    Insights
    October 7, 2019

    Climate Change Is Hurting Africa’s Water Sector, but Investing in Water Can Pay Off

    • Climate Resilience
    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
    • Water Security
    • natural infrastructure
    • water risk
    Improving water management in African countries can improve climate resilience. Here, Waretu Abera, Head of Ethiopia's Water Land Resource Centre, stands by a stream. Photo by Panos Pictures/Food and Land Use Coalition.
    • Climate Resilience
    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
    • Water Security
    • natural infrastructure
    • water risk
    Energy
    Initiatives
    June 14, 2019

    Energy Access Explorer

    kutch sunset.jpg
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    August 8, 2018

    Tracking Deforestation in DRC's Forest Concessions Is Complicated

    • Forests
    • commodities
    • deforestation
    Road near the village of Ilanga in the DRC. Photo by Molly Bergen
    • Forests
    • commodities
    • deforestation
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Data
    July 11, 2018

    INFOGRAPHIC: Experience the Unequal Ways Communities and Companies Get Land Rights

    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    June 21, 2018

    PODCAST: How an App Saves Chimpanzees in Uganda

    • forest monitoring
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Rangers using Forest Watcher.
    • forest monitoring
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    Asia Africa
    Insights
    September 26, 2017

    Forest Watcher Brings Data Straight to Environmental Defenders

    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • global forest watch
    • Equity & Governance
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Rangers checking Forest Watcher. Photo by Lilian Pintea
    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • global forest watch
    • Equity & Governance
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

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