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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
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Planes, Trains and (Big) Automobiles: How Heavy Transport Can Reduce Emissions and Save Money

  • Business
  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • Urban Mobility
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
A fuel-efficient airplane takes off during NASA's Green Flight competition.
  • Business
  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • Urban Mobility
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
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3 Ways Businesses Can Lead the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • Business
Companies can play a key role in climate leadership.
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • Business

Will Women Build the Sustainable Infrastructure of the Future?

  • Equity & Governance
  • infrastructure
  • Sustainable Development Goal 5
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • Gender
Installing a rooftop solar panel in Malawi
  • Equity & Governance
  • infrastructure
  • Sustainable Development Goal 5
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • Gender
Technical Perspectives

INSIDER: 7 Things to Know About the Economic Analysis of the New Climate Economy 2018 Report

  • Economics
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • climate policy
Middelgrunden Wind Farm.
  • Economics
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • climate policy
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4 Ways to Shift from Fossil Fuels to Clean Energy

  • Energy
  • Economics
  • carbon pricing
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • fossil fuels
Japan solar
  • Energy
  • Economics
  • carbon pricing
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • fossil fuels
News

ADVISORY: WRI’s Stories to Watch 2019

  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • data
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • Business
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • data
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • Business
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A Carbon Price Can Benefit the Poor While Reducing Emissions

  • Economics
  • carbon pricing
  • COP24
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
coal miner
  • Economics
  • carbon pricing
  • COP24
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
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Cities Can Save $17 Trillion by Preventing Urban Sprawl

  • Economics
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • low carbon development
  • transportation
  • Urban Development
New York City
  • Economics
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • low carbon development
  • transportation
  • Urban Development
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Making Food Production and Land Use More Sustainable Could Yield $2.3 Trillion in Economic Benefits

  • Food
  • Economics
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • health
  • restoration
Harvesting oil palm in Indonesia.
  • Food
  • Economics
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • health
  • restoration
Insights

Low-Carbon Growth Is a $26 Trillion Opportunity. Here Are 4 Ways to Seize It.

  • Business
  • Economics
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • climate change
Solar panels and wind turbines
  • Business
  • Economics
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • climate change
News

RELEASE: The Future Depends on Decoupling Business Growth from Resource Use

  • public transit
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Economics
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • public transit
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Economics
  • Business
  • agriculture
Insights

4 Young People Providing Inspiring Solutions to Environmental Problems

  • climate change
  • Food Loss and Waste
Biosphere 2 in Tucson, Arizona.
  • climate change
  • Food Loss and Waste
Data

Many Industries Can Find Water-Energy Connections Somewhere in Their Value Chains

  • Energy
  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Gender
  • fossil fuels
  • renewable energy
  • water risk
  • Energy
  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Gender
  • fossil fuels
  • renewable energy
  • water risk
Insights

Greater Efficiency in Aviation and Maritime: The Double Win Trajectory

  • Economics
  • GHG emissions
  • energy efficiency
  • greenhouse gases
  • international climate policy
The aviation and maritime sectors are an increasingly significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Photo by Bridget Coila/Flickr.
  • Economics
  • GHG emissions
  • energy efficiency
  • greenhouse gases
  • international climate policy
Insights

A Multi-Trillion Dollar Opportunity for Better Growth

  • Economics
  • Energy
  • international climate policy
  • restoration
A new report calls on the world to invest at least $1 trillion a year in renewable energy, among other recommendations. Photo by David Dodge/The Pembina Institute
  • Economics
  • Energy
  • international climate policy
  • restoration
Research

Two Degrees of Innovation

Purchasing Power

Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset