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Development Banks Are Starting to Spark Climate Action. Will They Complete the Task?

  • Climate
  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
  • development
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
Setting up a solar-powered water pump to pump groundwater in Ethiopia.
  • Climate
  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
  • development
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks

How "Complete Streets" Are Creating Safer, More Sustainable Cities in Brazil

  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Development
People cross the street in Belo Horizonte
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Development
Outcomes

India Rolls Out 10,000 Electric Buses in Dozens of Cities

  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Electric Mobility
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • electric mobility
  • Cities
An air-conditioned Electric bus on road of Kolkata.
  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Electric Mobility
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • electric mobility
  • Cities
Insights

India’s Shift to Low-carbon Construction Must Not Leave Workers Behind

  • Buildings
  • low carbon development
  • GHG emissions
  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
Construction workers in colorful clothes stand near a cement mixer.
  • Buildings
  • low carbon development
  • GHG emissions
  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
Insights

Post-pandemic, Public Transport Needs to Get Back on Track to Meet Global Climate Goals

  • Cities
  • public transit
  • transportation
  • Urban Mobility
  • electric mobility
  • National Climate Action
People board a city tram next to a tall apartment building in Antalya, Turkey.
  • Cities
  • public transit
  • transportation
  • Urban Mobility
  • electric mobility
  • National Climate Action
Insights

The Good, the Bad and the Urgent: MDB Climate Finance in 2022

  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
Women farmers in New Delhi, India, crouch in the fields in the summer heat.
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
Technical Perspectives
Several trains carrying freight gather on tracks
  • Climate
  • transportation
  • public transit
Update

Public Transport for All: How to Unlock Climate and Development Benefits from Sustainable Mobility

  • Cities
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
  • Electric Mobility
  • electric mobility
Bus crossing a bridge in Jakarta, Indonesia.
  • Cities
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
  • Electric Mobility
  • electric mobility
Research

State of Climate Action 2023

Wind turbines on grassy field at golden hour.

From Minibuses to “Boda Bodas,” Informal Transport Systems Could Be an Untapped Climate Change Solution

  • Urban Mobility
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Cities
  • Integrated Transport
Passengers on a busy Bangkok street ride on colorful three-wheeled tuk-tuks.
  • Urban Mobility
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Cities
  • Integrated Transport

Ways the US Can Electrify Its Public Fleets, from City Buses to Garbage Trucks

  • electric mobility
  • Clean Energy
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Air Quality
A blue and yellow city bus with the words "clean energy bus" on the side driving in downtown New York.
  • electric mobility
  • Clean Energy
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Air Quality
Update

Celebrating 10 Years of Collaboration on Public Transportation from WRI and FedEx

  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
Avenue in Mexico City
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
Insights

Wood Is Not the Climate-friendly Building Material Some Claim it to Be

  • Food
  • land use
  • Climate
  • commodities
  • Buildings
unloading log truck at lumber processing mill
  • Food
  • land use
  • Climate
  • commodities
  • Buildings
Initiatives

Integrated Transport

Integrated transport
Technical Perspectives

MDBs Need Major Reforms, Not Just More Funding, to Address Climate and Development Finance Challenges

  • Finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate finance
  • sustainable development goals
Women and children walking among tents in a refugee camp in Somalia.
  • Finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate finance
  • sustainable development goals
Initiatives
Construction on train station stop.
Insights

5 Shifts to Transform Transportation Systems and Meet Climate Goals

  • Climate
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • Urban Mobility
The VLT train inRio de Janeiro, Brazil is one of the city’s central modes of transport.
  • Climate
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • Urban Mobility
Technical Perspectives

How Multilateral Development Banks Can Use Policy-Based Financing to Support Climate-Resilient Economies

  • multilateral development banks
  • Climate
  • low carbon development
Women scoop up dirty water from a polluted lake in Chad.
  • multilateral development banks
  • Climate
  • low carbon development
Insights

The Good, the Bad and the Urgent: MDB Climate Finance in 2021

  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate change
Restoration of a preserve in FL
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate change