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Cities4Forests

Pond and trees in front of city skyline.
Initiatives

Greenhouse Gas Protocol

The São Paulo skyline behind Ibirapuera Park. The city's urban trees are part of the greater Atlantic Forest ecosystem. Photo by Flávio Jota de Paula/Flickr.
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5 Priorities for Urban Climate Action in 2023 and Beyond

  • transportation
  • electric mobility
  • Freshwater
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • nature-based solutions
  • poverty
  • human rights
A new electric bus in New Delhi, India
  • transportation
  • electric mobility
  • Freshwater
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • nature-based solutions
  • poverty
  • human rights
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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

Tracking Progress: Climate Action Under the Biden Administration

  • National Climate Action
  • Tracking Climate Action
  • Climate
  • carbon removal
  • climatewatch-pinned
President Joe Biden visits Flatirons Campus of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Arvada, Colorado.
  • National Climate Action
  • Tracking Climate Action
  • Climate
  • carbon removal
  • climatewatch-pinned
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

When Non-state Actors Are Transparent About their Climate Actions, the Benefits Go Both Ways

  • Tracking Climate Action
  • corporate sustainability
  • climate policy
People on bicycles on a sunny street with palm trees and city buildings in the background.
  • Tracking Climate Action
  • corporate sustainability
  • climate policy
Insights

These Countries Are Adopting Electric Vehicles the Fastest

  • Tracking Climate Action
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric Vehicles
  • transportation
An electric car is charging on the side of a tree-lined road.
  • Tracking Climate Action
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric Vehicles
  • transportation
Insights

5 Shifts Needed to Decarbonize Industry

  • industry
  • Energy
  • energy efficiency
  • Tracking Climate Action
  • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
  • climatewatch-pinned
A family walks past an industrial harbor.
  • industry
  • Energy
  • energy efficiency
  • Tracking Climate Action
  • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
  • climatewatch-pinned
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
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

2 Years of Justice40: Integrating Environmental Justice into US Climate Policy

  • environmental justice
  • Equity & Governance
  • infrastructure
  • Energy
  • U.S. policy
  • Tracking Climate Action
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity
Smokestacks in the background of a neighborhood with rowhouses in Baltimore, MD
  • environmental justice
  • Equity & Governance
  • infrastructure
  • Energy
  • U.S. policy
  • Tracking Climate Action
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity
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
Update

UN Human Rights Council Underscores the Need for Loss and Damage Action Ahead of COP27

  • United Nations
  • human rights
  • Climate Governance
  • Climate
UN Geneva meeting in session
  • United Nations
  • human rights
  • Climate Governance
  • Climate
Insights

5 Reasons Cities Should Include Trees in Climate Action

  • GHG emissions
  • Forests
  • Climate
  • Tracking Climate Action
A landscape view of Jakarta, Indonesia with trees in the forefront and skyscrapers in the background
  • GHG emissions
  • Forests
  • Climate
  • Tracking Climate Action
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  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Tracking Climate Action

3 Benefits of Women’s Collective Land Rights

  • Gender
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • land rights
  • human rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
An all-women community forest user group in Nepal.
  • Gender
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • land rights
  • human rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities