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    extreme weather illegal logging Tracking Climate Action
    Forests
    Outcomes
    February 13, 2024

    New Nature Crime Alliance Forms to Combat Crimes Against People and Planet

    • Top Outcome: 2023
    • illegal logging
    • deforestation
    • conservation
    Orphan Black Rhino in Gonarezhou National Park with scout rangers holding weapons.
    • Top Outcome: 2023
    • illegal logging
    • deforestation
    • conservation
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    January 29, 2024

    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
    Climate
    Technical Perspectives
    November 15, 2023

    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
    Cities
    Insights
    September 14, 2023

    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
    Climate
    Insights
    August 1, 2023

    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
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    January 24, 2023

    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
    Cities
    Insights
    July 28, 2022

    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
    Forests
    Latin America
    Insights
    June 17, 2022

    How Tracking Timber Helps Prevent Illegal Logging and Deforestation

    • Forest Legality
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • illegal logging
    Worker with hardhat stands in front of timber pile at the Luke Paper Mill and Woodlands site.
    • Forest Legality
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • illegal logging
    Climate
    News
    October 28, 2021

    RELEASE: Progress lagging across all sectors to limit warming to 1.5 C, but rapid change is possible, finds new report

    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • Tracking Climate Action
    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • Tracking Climate Action
    Climate
    Insights
    August 3, 2021

    Will Recent Extreme Weather Spur More Climate Finance from Wealthy Nations?

    • Finance
    • extreme weather
    • floods
    • climate change
    • climate finance
    • COP26
    Train crossing road with high flooding
    • Finance
    • extreme weather
    • floods
    • climate change
    • climate finance
    • COP26
    Climate
    Data
    June 25, 2021

    Climate Watch Slide Deck

    • Tracking Climate Action
    • Tracking Climate Action
    Forests
    Initiatives
    March 5, 2021

    Open Timber Portal

    Photo credit: CIFOR/Flickr
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    December 16, 2020

    China Can Save Forests While Strengthening Its Economic Resilience

    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    • commodities
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    Bolivian soy plantation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    • commodities
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    Forests
    North America
    Insights
    October 22, 2020

    Bringing New Life to Fallen Urban Trees

    • circular economy
    • Economics
    • health
    • restoration
    • illegal logging
    • Climate
    A pile of logs in a forest.
    • circular economy
    • Economics
    • health
    • restoration
    • illegal logging
    • Climate
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Insights
    September 15, 2020

    6 Keys to Turn Coastal Resilience Plans into Action

    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation finance
    • biking
    • extreme weather
    • climate change
    • Ocean
    A man wheels a megaphone mounted on bicycle along a neighborhood path in Bangladesh.
    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation finance
    • biking
    • extreme weather
    • climate change
    • Ocean
    Climate
    Asia
    Insights
    May 29, 2020

    South Asia Confronts a Double Disaster: Cyclone and COVID-19

    • coronavirus
    • extreme weather
    Boats in Dhaka, Bangladesh
    • coronavirus
    • extreme weather
    Finance
    Asia
    Insights
    January 22, 2020

    China Can Lead Global Green Trade Drive

    • commodities
    • illegal logging
    Cargo chip near San Francisco
    • commodities
    • illegal logging
    Climate
    Oceania
    Insights
    January 10, 2020

    4 Things to Know About Australia’s Wildfires and Their Impacts on Forests

    • Forests
    • fires
    • drought
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    Australia fires
    • Forests
    • fires
    • drought
    • climate change
    • extreme weather

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