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    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
    Asia
    Insights
    November 13, 2019

    To Fix City Slums, Don't Just Knock Them Down: Involve Residents in Upgrading Efforts

    • Cities
    • Towards a More Equal City
    • housing
    • poverty
    • public participation
    View of one of the many informal settlements the city of Surabaya, Indonesia has upgraded since the 1960s with input and participation from residents. Photo by Peter Edelman.
    • Cities
    • Towards a More Equal City
    • housing
    • poverty
    • public participation
    Cities
    Africa Latin America Asia
    News
    July 12, 2017

    RELEASE: 1.2 Billion People Living in Cities Lack Access to Affordable and Secure Housing

    • housing
    • Equity & Governance
    • housing
    • Equity & Governance
    Cities
    Asia Africa Latin America
    Insights
    July 12, 2017

    Confronting the Urban Housing Gap

    • Towards a More Equal City
    • housing
    • Equity & Governance
    • Urban Development
    Informal housing in Dhaka, Bangladesh
    • Towards a More Equal City
    • housing
    • Equity & Governance
    • Urban Development
    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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