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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
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In Iloilo City, Philippines, an Inclusive Housing Program Protects Vulnerable Communities from Flood Risks

  • Climate Resilience
  • sea level rise
  • Urban Development
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
This housing in Iloilo City, Philippines was built to provide safe shelter to people previously living in flood zones.
  • Climate Resilience
  • sea level rise
  • Urban Development
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities

Keeping Heads Above Water: Lessons for Building Resilience After Flooding in South Asia and Texas

  • floods
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • sea level rise
  • water pollution
Escapees from hurricane flooding.
  • floods
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • sea level rise
  • water pollution

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
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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
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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
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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

STATEMENT: WRI Responds to IPCC Report

  • climate science
  • climate change
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • Climate Resilience

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