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    Insights
    December 21, 2020

    To Build Back from COVID-19, Don’t Overlook Informal Workers

    • coronavirus
    • climate finance
    • climate impacts
    • poverty
    Tamil Nadu street vendor
    • coronavirus
    • climate finance
    • climate impacts
    • poverty
    Equity & Governance
    Asia Latin America
    Insights
    December 20, 2019

    Ensuring a "Just Transition": 5 Priorities to Make Climate Action Benefit Low-Income and Disadvantaged Groups

    • Climate
    • COP25
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate policy
    • Climate Equity
    • Equity & Governance
    • Gender
    • poverty
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    A youth group marching in Paris, with a banner that says "climate justice = social justice." Photo by Andreas Link/Young FoEE
    • Climate
    • COP25
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate policy
    • Climate Equity
    • Equity & Governance
    • Gender
    • poverty
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    Insights
    November 27, 2019

    Chile’s Protests Offer Lessons on Social Inequality and Climate Action

    • Climate
    • COP25
    • Climate Equity
    • climate change
    • human rights
    • poverty
    Protests in Santiago, Chile
    • Climate
    • COP25
    • Climate Equity
    • climate change
    • human rights
    • poverty
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Research
    December 17, 2018

    Prepared Communities

    Cities
    Asia
    Insights
    May 29, 2018

    Informal Workers Make Cities Work For All: 3 Stories from Thailand, India and Colombia

    • Towards a More Equal City
    • Cities
    • poverty
    • world resources report
    Choral Mauladia, a street vendor and trade unionist in Ahmedabad. Photo: Getty Images Reportage.
    • Towards a More Equal City
    • Cities
    • poverty
    • world resources report
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    March 6, 2017

    America Doesn’t Have to Choose Between the Economy and the Climate

    • U.S. Climate
    • Energy
    • U.S. policy
    • Economics
    • climate change
    • renewable energy
    Solar panels at Curtis H. Stanton Energy Cente
    • U.S. Climate
    • Energy
    • U.S. policy
    • Economics
    • climate change
    • renewable energy
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    February 16, 2017

    US Climate Finance: A Great Deal for the Nation and the World

    • U.S. Climate
    • U.S. policy
    • climate investment funds
    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    School children in Kenya
    • U.S. Climate
    • U.S. policy
    • climate investment funds
    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    Finance
    North America
    Insights
    December 19, 2016

    Debunking 4 Myths About Sustainable Investing

    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    Stock market ticker
    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    Cities
    Latin America Asia
    Insights
    July 25, 2016

    Thinking “Incrementally:” Addressing the Global Housing Deficit by Engaging the Poor

    • Buildings
    • Cities
    • human rights
    • poverty
    Slum in Bangkok,
    • Buildings
    • Cities
    • human rights
    • poverty
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    Insights
    March 8, 2016

    Death of Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres Underscores the Need for Environmental Democracy

    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • poverty
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Berta Cáceres works with the people of Rio Blanco to set up a road blockade in protest of a dam.
    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • poverty
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Finance
    Latin America
    Insights
    March 7, 2016

    How Uruguay Became a Wind Power Powerhouse

    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    • low carbon development
    • renewable energy
    Sierra de los Caracoles wind farm in Uruguay.
    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    • low carbon development
    • renewable energy
    Finance
    North America
    Insights
    November 1, 2013

    U.S. Signals the End of Public Money for Coal-Fired Power

    • Climate
    • Energy
    • fossil fuels
    • climate change
    • multilateral development banks
    U.S. public financing for overseas coal-fired power is likely coming to an end. Photo credit: Mike_tn, Flickr
    • Climate
    • Energy
    • fossil fuels
    • climate change
    • multilateral development banks
    Climate
    Africa Asia Europe
    Insights
    October 23, 2013

    The Green Climate Fund: From Inception to Launch

    • Finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    • Finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    Freshwater
    North America
    News
    October 15, 2013

    RELEASE: New Guidance to Protect America’s Water and Reduce Costs with Natural Infrastructure

    • Freshwater
    • natural infrastructure
    • water risk
    • Freshwater
    • natural infrastructure
    • water risk

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