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    Insights
    November 29, 2023

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

    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    • Urban Development
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate impacts
    • climate science
    • COP28
    Brick layers during in a heatwave in New Delhi, India
    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    • Urban Development
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate impacts
    • climate science
    • COP28
    Equity & Governance
    Africa
    Update
    April 18, 2023

    Profiles of Adaptation: Somalia

    • adaptation
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • Equity & Governance
    People and cars crowd the streets of Hargeisa
    • adaptation
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • Equity & Governance
    Climate
    Africa
    Insights
    December 8, 2022

    COP27: Key Takeaways and What’s Next

    • COP27
    • adaptation
    • climate change
    • climate finance
    • GHG emissions
    • Energy
    • Paris Agreement
    • climatewatch-pinned
    • COP28
    Panel at COP27.
    • COP27
    • adaptation
    • climate change
    • climate finance
    • GHG emissions
    • Energy
    • Paris Agreement
    • climatewatch-pinned
    • COP28
    Cities
    Africa
    News
    November 14, 2022

    RELEASE: WRI and Partners Launch Fund to Help African Cities Build Water Resilience

    • COP27
    • Freshwater
    • Cities
    • urban water resilience
    • adaptation
    • Climate Resilience
    • COP27
    • Freshwater
    • Cities
    • urban water resilience
    • adaptation
    • Climate Resilience
    Climate
    Africa
    News
    November 11, 2022

    RELEASE: WRI Launches Program to Help Governments Mainstream Climate Adaptation, with Support from U.S. Government

    • COP27
    • adaptation
    • adaptation finance
    • COP27
    • adaptation
    • adaptation finance
    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
    Freshwater
    Africa
    Update
    July 5, 2022

    New Project Promotes Integrated Water Resources Management in Ethiopia’s Tana Sub-basin

    • adaptation
    • climate impacts
    • water risk
    • Freshwater
    A team analyzes plans for the Tana Sub-basin in a landscaped portion
    • adaptation
    • climate impacts
    • water risk
    • Freshwater
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Update
    June 29, 2022

    Profiles of Adaptation: Japan

    • adaptation
    • adaptation finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate impacts
    • adaptation
    • adaptation finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate impacts
    Africa North America
    Insights
    October 28, 2016

    If Climate Change Is the Existential Crisis of Our Age, Why Isn’t it Getting More Attention?

    • climate science
    • drought
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • food security
    • sea level rise
    • U.S. policy
    California drought
    • climate science
    • drought
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • food security
    • sea level rise
    • U.S. policy
    Asia
    Insights
    September 16, 2015

    Positioning Indonesia's Climate Commitment on the Global Stage

    • Climate
    • climate change
    • NDC
    • climate science
    • UNFCCC
    In 2009, Indonesia made a bold move by voluntarily pledging to achieve a 26 percent reduction in emissions against the business-as-usual scenario in 2020. Photo by James Anderson/WRI.
    • Climate
    • climate change
    • NDC
    • climate science
    • UNFCCC
    Climate
    Africa
    Insights
    April 11, 2014

    What Is the Role for Transformation in Adaptation?

    • Finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • climate finance
    • climate science
    Authors of a paper on transformational adaptation have deemed the development of wheat-resistant maize in Africa “transformative." Photo credit: WorldFish, Flickr 2012
    • Finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • climate finance
    • climate science
    Climate
    Asia
    Insights
    April 1, 2014

    How to Address Risk and Make Progress on Climate and Development

    • Energy
    • Climate
    • climate change
    • climate science
    Climate impacts will also take their toll on urban dwellers, especially the poor who are at risk of rising seas and extreme weather events. For example, low-lying cities, like Mumbai and Kolkata, face significant threats from coastal flooding and storm surge. Photo credit: Dennis Jarvis, Flickr 2007
    • Energy
    • Climate
    • climate change
    • climate science
    Climate
    Africa Asia Europe
    News
    March 30, 2014

    STATEMENT: WRI Responds to IPCC Report

    • climate science
    • climate change
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • Climate Resilience
    Climate
    Asia North America
    Insights
    June 14, 2013

    U.S. Faces a Week of Extreme Weather and Signs of Climate Action

    • climate science
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    • U.S. policy
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    • U.S. policy

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