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    COP20 hurricanes
    Equity & Governance
    News
    September 9, 2019

    RELEASE: Global Leaders Call for Urgent Action on Climate Adaptation; Commission Finds Adaptation Can Deliver $7.1 Trillion in Benefits

    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • Business
    • adaptation finance
    • infrastructure
    • agriculture
    • hurricanes
    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • Business
    • adaptation finance
    • infrastructure
    • agriculture
    • hurricanes
    Climate
    Insights
    September 4, 2019

    Climate Disasters Are Getting Worse. Here's How Developing Countries Are Insuring Against Them

    • Finance
    • Climate
    • adaptation finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • extreme weather
    • Sustainable Development Goal 1
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • climate finance
    • hurricanes
    A child sits on water jugs provided after Cyclone Idai.
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • adaptation finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • extreme weather
    • Sustainable Development Goal 1
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • climate finance
    • hurricanes
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    September 14, 2018

    Recent Scientific Advancements Show New Connections Between Climate Change and Hurricanes

    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    • hurricanes
    Hurricane Florence
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    • hurricanes
    Climate
    Insights
    September 18, 2017

    Extreme Weather: What’s Climate Change Got to Do With It?

    • Climate
    • extreme weather
    • hurricanes
    • water pollution
    Houseboat stuck in low-lying water and debris on Scout Key
    • Climate
    • extreme weather
    • hurricanes
    • water pollution
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    September 8, 2017

    With Superstorms Like Hurricane Irma Increasing, How Can Vulnerable Countries Prepare?

    • Climate Resilience
    • hurricanes
    Sailors transport evacuees during Hurricane Irma relief
    • Climate Resilience
    • hurricanes
    Economics
    Outcomes
    December 8, 2015

    New Climate Economy’s Message of Economic Growth and Climate Action Takes Hold

    • Climate
    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Indian girl tends to solar panel
    • Climate
    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Energy
    Asia
    Outcomes
    December 8, 2015

    Chinese Cities Begin Turning Sludge into Energy

    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Power plant worker in Tianjin, China
    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Forests
    Outcomes
    December 8, 2015

    More Actors Use Global Forest Watch to Improve Forest Management

    • Top Outcome: 2015
    People at a workshop roundtable in Congo
    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Climate
    North America
    Outcomes
    December 8, 2015

    WRI Informs National Climate Plans and Advances U.S. Climate Action

    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Conference attendees at United Nations
    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Forests
    Latin America
    Outcomes
    December 8, 2015

    Latin American Countries Commit to Expand Forest and Landscape Restoration

    • restoration
    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Group of men examining replanted crops
    • restoration
    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Cities
    Asia
    Outcomes
    December 8, 2015

    Millions in India Join Movement to Reclaim City Streets

    • Cities
    • Urban Development
    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Public gathering in India
    • Cities
    • Urban Development
    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Climate
    Outcomes
    December 8, 2015

    Over 300 Cities Take Action to Measure and Manage Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    • GHG Protocol
    • Cities
    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo, Japan
    • GHG Protocol
    • Cities
    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Freshwater
    Outcomes
    December 8, 2015

    More Global Organizations and Investment Firms Use Aqueduct to Manage Water Risk

    • Aqueduct
    • Freshwater
    • water risk
    • floods
    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Flooded street in Jakarta, Indonesia
    • Aqueduct
    • Freshwater
    • water risk
    • floods
    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Cities
    Latin America
    Outcomes
    December 8, 2015

    WRI Helps Guide $4 Billion in Investment in Sustainable Urban Transport in Brazil

    • transportation
    • Urban Mobility
    • Top Outcome: 2015
    People walking near Brazil public transportation
    • transportation
    • Urban Mobility
    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Food
    Outcomes
    December 8, 2015

    Consumer Goods Forum Commits to Halve Food Waste by 2025

    • corporate sustainability
    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Two green trashbags filled with waste
    • corporate sustainability
    • Top Outcome: 2015
    Finance
    Research
    June 15, 2015

    Building Climate Equity

    Climate
    Insights
    February 10, 2015

    What Does the “Pathway to Paris” Mean for Adaptation?

    • International Climate Action
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate Resilience
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate change
    • COP20
    • extreme weather
    A growing number of studies show that communities around the world are already experiencing the effects of climate change in the form of extreme heat, unpredictable weather and sea level rise. (Punjab region, Pakistan) Photo by Tariq Saeed/IRIN.
    • International Climate Action
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate Resilience
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate change
    • COP20
    • extreme weather
    Climate
    Latin America
    Insights
    December 19, 2014

    Expanding Climate Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean

    • International Climate Action
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate change
    • climate finance
    • COP20
    Despite difficult negotiations in Lima, discussions signaled the positive outlook among development banks for expanding climate finance in Latin America and the Caribbean. Photo by Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores/Flickr.
    • International Climate Action
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate change
    • climate finance
    • COP20
    Climate
    Asia
    Research
    December 18, 2014

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