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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
Insights
People in Jakarta wait for a train while wearing face masks to reduce air pollution exposure
  • Cities
  • Air Quality
  • pollution
  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
Insights
A construction worker walks down a path between rows of solar panels installed over water.
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • Clean Energy
  • fossil fuels
Insights

Cities Need a Systems-change Approach to Build Climate-resilient Communities

  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Climate Resilience
Looking down at city buildings, some with green roofs and the street below.
  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Climate Resilience
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What’s After Coal? Accelerating China’s Overseas Investment in Renewables

  • Finance
  • renewable energy
  • fossil fuels
Aerial photo of solar power station in Hangzhou, China
  • Finance
  • renewable energy
  • fossil fuels

In Barranquilla, Colombia, Urban Parks Revitalize a Declining City

  • Cities
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Urban Transformations
Parque Sagrado Corazon in Barranquilla, Colombia
  • Cities
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Urban Transformations
Research

State of Climate Action 2022

Climate march with people holding signs.
Insights

5 Cities Show How to Thrive in Turbulent Times

  • Urban Development
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
Children playing in a neighborhood park in Barranquilla, Colombia.
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
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5 Ways to Cut Oil and Gas Use Through Clean Transportation

  • Cities
  • biking
  • public transit
  • Climate
  • fossil fuels
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Health & Road Safety
A bike lane in NYC
  • Cities
  • biking
  • public transit
  • Climate
  • fossil fuels
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Health & Road Safety
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3 Essentials to Make Climate Action Stick

  • renewable energy
  • fossil fuels
  • net-zero emissions
  • Paris Agreement
  • environmental justice
A man installs solar panels
  • renewable energy
  • fossil fuels
  • net-zero emissions
  • Paris Agreement
  • environmental justice

3 Steps to Boost US Energy Security and Relieve Gas Price Spikes

  • Climate
  • fossil fuels
  • Clean Energy
  • U.S. Climate
  • U.S. policy
A woman pumps gas at a North Carolina gas station.
  • Climate
  • fossil fuels
  • Clean Energy
  • U.S. Climate
  • U.S. policy
Podcasts

Stories To Watch: A Deeper Dive into Coal

  • fossil fuels
  • fossil fuels
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From Promises to Action: 6 Sustainability Stories to Watch in 2022

  • net-zero emissions
  • climate change
  • fossil fuels
  • National Climate Action
  • International Climate Action
  • adaptation finance
  • environmental justice
  • health
  • deforestation
  • electric mobility
  • electric grid
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • stories to watch
A solar farm in the forefront with a coal plant in the distance.
  • net-zero emissions
  • climate change
  • fossil fuels
  • National Climate Action
  • International Climate Action
  • adaptation finance
  • environmental justice
  • health
  • deforestation
  • electric mobility
  • electric grid
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • stories to watch
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Can Cities Thrive in Turbulent Times? 3 Questions for Cities in 2022

  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Urban Transformations
Overhead view of a city
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Urban Transformations

A Low-Carbon Future in the US Depends on Decarbonizing Petroleum Refineries

  • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
  • carbon removal
  • GHG emissions
  • fossil fuels
A landscape view of a U.S. refinery.
  • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
  • carbon removal
  • GHG emissions
  • fossil fuels
Insights

7 Major Transformations to Solve Urban Inequality

  • Urban Development
  • Urban Transformations
  • land use
  • data
  • infrastructure
  • Equity & Governance
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • COP26
An aerial view of a cluster of small homes next to luxury buildings, all surrounded by trees.
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Transformations
  • land use
  • data
  • infrastructure
  • Equity & Governance
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • COP26

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
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset