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6 Ways to Prevent Greenwashing and Risks from Trade Associations

  • Unlocking Climate Action
A "do not walk" sign lit up on an intersection with skyscrapers in the background.
  • Unlocking Climate Action
News

RELEASE: WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities 2020-2021 Opens; Now Accepting Applications for Transformative Urban Climate Projects

  • Climate Resilience
  • Unlocking Climate Action
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
  • Climate Resilience
  • Unlocking Climate Action
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
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Eskisehir, Turkey Leads on Energy-Efficient Buildings

  • Buildings
  • Unlocking Climate Action
  • Cities
  • Energy
  • energy efficiency
Eskişehir, Turkey
  • Buildings
  • Unlocking Climate Action
  • Cities
  • Energy
  • energy efficiency
Technical Perspectives

INSIDER: The IPCC Updated its Emissions Guidance for the First Time in 13 Years. Here's Why That Matters.

  • COP24
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • climate science
  • corporate sustainability
Power plant components in Germany.
  • COP24
  • climate change
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  • climate science
  • corporate sustainability
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Governments, Companies and NGOs Adopt Shared Mobility Principles

  • Top Outcome: 2018
  • Health & Road Safety
Shared bikes in Beijing. Photo by Kentaro IEMOTO/Flickr
  • Top Outcome: 2018
  • Health & Road Safety
Outcomes
A street in Bangalore, India. Photo by Ryan ruffin_ready/Flickr
  • Top Outcome: 2018

Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America Create Safer, More Sustainable Streets

  • Top Outcome: 2018
  • Health & Road Safety
Rua Completa Joel Carlos Borges. Photo by Pedro Mascaro/WRI Brasil
  • Top Outcome: 2018
  • Health & Road Safety
Outcomes

WRI Helps Set Paris Agreement in Motion

  • Finance
  • Economics
  • Top Outcome: 2018
Negotiators at COP24 in Katowice, Poland adopted a robust Paris Rulebook to set the agreement in motion. Photo by UNclimatechange/Flickr
  • Finance
  • Economics
  • Top Outcome: 2018
Outcomes

Forest Resilience Bond Helps Reduce Wildfire Risk in California

  • Freshwater
  • Top Outcome: 2018
US Forest Service, partners and local community members visit a restoration site in the North Yuba River Watershed in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. Photo by Leah Schleifer/WRI
  • Freshwater
  • Top Outcome: 2018
Outcomes
Members of a community group in Riau, Indonesia, traveling by boat use WRI’s Forest Watcher app to monitor deforestation. Photo by Jikalihari/WRI
  • Top Outcome: 2018
Outcomes
A Tesco grocery store in South West England. Photo by Roger A Smith/Geograph
  • Top Outcome: 2018
Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. Photo by Pedro Szekely/Wikimedia Commons
  • Energy
  • Top Outcome: 2018
Outcomes

Indonesia and Democratic Republic of the Congo Accelerate Social and Community Forest Management

  • Top Outcome: 2018
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
A man in Ilanga Village, DRC, holds a map showing commercial concessions on community lands. Photo by Molly Bergen/WCS, WWF, WRI
  • Top Outcome: 2018
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
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Planning for a "Just Transition": Leaving No Worker Behind in Shifting to a Low Carbon Future

  • Climate
  • COP24
  • long-term strategies
  • fossil fuels
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
Providing for workers displaced by the transition away from fossil fuels should be a priority around the world. Photo by U.S. Air Force Photo/Dawn Waldman
  • Climate
  • COP24
  • long-term strategies
  • fossil fuels
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
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Optimize, Electrify, Decarbonize: The 3 Steps to Thriving, Zero-Carbon Cities

  • Cities
  • low carbon development
  • transportation
  • electric mobility
  • Unlocking Climate Action
Las Vegas solar panels
  • Cities
  • low carbon development
  • transportation
  • electric mobility
  • Unlocking Climate Action
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COP24 Climate Change Package Brings Paris Agreement to Life

  • COP24
  • Paris Agreement
  • Climate
  • climate change
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  • COP24
  • Paris Agreement
  • Climate
  • climate change
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Leaving Katowice, climate finance advocates find a mixed bag. Flickr/Piotr Drabik
  • COP24
  • Finance
  • climate finance
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STATEMENT: Tough Climate Talks Wrap Up in Poland, Putting Paris Agreement in Motion

  • COP24
  • Paris Agreement
  • Climate
  • international climate policy
  • COP24
  • Paris Agreement
  • Climate
  • international climate policy
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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
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  • Economics
  • carbon pricing
  • COP24
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions