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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
Technical Perspectives

What does ‘green’ procurement mean? Initiatives and standards for cement and steel.

  • Climate
  • infrastructure
  • industry
  • low carbon development
  • Paying for Paris
Workers in hard hats installing energy
  • Climate
  • infrastructure
  • industry
  • low carbon development
  • Paying for Paris

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
Technical Perspectives

How Prepared Are US Cities to Implement the Justice40 Initiative?

  • environmental justice
  • Equity & Governance
  • Cities
  • infrastructure
  • Energy
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity
An electric bus against the backdrop of greenspace within a city
  • environmental justice
  • Equity & Governance
  • Cities
  • infrastructure
  • Energy
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity

How the US Can Speed its Shift to Climate-smart Infrastructure

  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • U.S. policy
  • Climate
  • Buildings
  • infrastructure
  • carbon removal
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicle charging station in Austin, TX
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • U.S. policy
  • Climate
  • Buildings
  • infrastructure
  • carbon removal
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric Vehicles

US Infrastructure Bill Makes Headway on Climate, But More Is Needed

  • infrastructure
  • National Climate Action
  • U.S. policy
  • U.S. Climate
Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on a clear day
  • infrastructure
  • National Climate Action
  • U.S. policy
  • U.S. Climate

How the US Can Address Legacy Fossil Fuel Sites for a Clean Energy Future

  • Clean Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • infrastructure
  • GHG emissions
An abandoned oil rig in the middle of a desert.
  • Clean Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • infrastructure
  • GHG emissions
  • infrastructure

How Climate Action Can Reboot Economies in Rural America

  • U.S. Climate
  • Economics
  • infrastructure
  • renewable energy
  • COP26
  • carbon removal
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
Red tractor tills fields in rural America with windmills in backdrop.
  • U.S. Climate
  • Economics
  • infrastructure
  • renewable energy
  • COP26
  • carbon removal
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands

Does Biden’s American Jobs Plan Stack Up on Climate and Jobs?

  • infrastructure
  • climate policy
  • Economics
Wayne National Forest Solar Panel Construction
  • infrastructure
  • climate policy
  • Economics

STATEMENT: Biden Administration Releases American Jobs Plan with Major Clean Energy Investments

  • infrastructure
  • climate policy
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • Energy
  • infrastructure
  • climate policy
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • Energy
Initiatives
Ariel shot of a city with lots of trees.

5 Big Ideas to Address the Climate Crisis and Inequality in Cities

  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Climate Resilience
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • Urban Development
  • COP26
People gather in the middle of a Monterrey street during sunset
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Climate Resilience
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • Urban Development
  • COP26
News

RELEASE: New Report Finds National Governments Can Unlock Nearly $24 Trillion by Investing in Zero-Carbon Cities

  • Buildings
  • infrastructure
  • Urban Mobility
  • Cities
  • energy efficiency
  • low carbon development
  • Buildings
  • infrastructure
  • Urban Mobility
  • Cities
  • energy efficiency
  • low carbon development

3 Cities Taking Urban Forestry to the Next Level

  • Cities
  • Air Quality
  • Forests
  • Urban Development
Cherry blossoms in Washington, DC park
  • Cities
  • Air Quality
  • Forests
  • Urban Development

ADVISORY: Transforming Transportation 2015: Smart Cities for Shared Prosperity

  • Cities
  • transportation
  • Urban Development
  • Health & Road Safety
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • Urban Development
  • Health & Road Safety
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset