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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
Insights

Solar-Powered Battery Swap Stations Could Speed Rwanda’s Shift to Electric ‘Motos’

  • renewable energy
  • electric grid
  • Cities
  • Energy Access
People on motorcycles drive through the busy streets of Kigali, Rwanda.
  • renewable energy
  • electric grid
  • Cities
  • Energy Access

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
Outcomes

India Rolls Out 10,000 Electric Buses in Dozens of Cities

  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Electric Mobility
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • electric mobility
  • Cities
An air-conditioned Electric bus on road of Kolkata.
  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Electric Mobility
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • electric mobility
  • Cities

State of the US Clean Energy Transition: Recent Progress, and What Comes Next

  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • renewable energy
  • electric grid
  • electric mobility
  • Electric Mobility
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric Vehicles
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Clean Power
  • Climate
Technician installing solar panels on roof.
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • renewable energy
  • electric grid
  • electric mobility
  • Electric Mobility
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric Vehicles
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Clean Power
  • Climate
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4 Climate Stories that Will Define 2024

  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
  • International Climate Action
  • climate policy
  • Food
  • Clean Energy
  • electric grid
  • Cities
  • stories to watch
A family covers their heads with cloth for sun protection while walking near the Ganges river during a heatwave.
  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
  • International Climate Action
  • climate policy
  • Food
  • Clean Energy
  • electric grid
  • Cities
  • stories to watch
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Post-pandemic, Public Transport Needs to Get Back on Track to Meet Global Climate Goals

  • Cities
  • public transit
  • transportation
  • Urban Mobility
  • electric mobility
  • National Climate Action
People board a city tram next to a tall apartment building in Antalya, Turkey.
  • Cities
  • public transit
  • transportation
  • Urban Mobility
  • electric mobility
  • National Climate Action
Technical Perspectives
Several trains carrying freight gather on tracks
  • Climate
  • transportation
  • public transit
Technical Perspectives
Flooded streets of Hoi An Vietname
  • Finance
  • NDC
  • adaptation finance
  • climatewatch-pinned
Update

Public Transport for All: How to Unlock Climate and Development Benefits from Sustainable Mobility

  • Cities
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
  • Electric Mobility
  • electric mobility
Bus crossing a bridge in Jakarta, Indonesia.
  • Cities
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
  • Electric Mobility
  • electric mobility

From Minibuses to “Boda Bodas,” Informal Transport Systems Could Be an Untapped Climate Change Solution

  • Urban Mobility
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Cities
  • Integrated Transport
Passengers on a busy Bangkok street ride on colorful three-wheeled tuk-tuks.
  • Urban Mobility
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Cities
  • Integrated Transport

Ways the US Can Electrify Its Public Fleets, from City Buses to Garbage Trucks

  • electric mobility
  • Clean Energy
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Air Quality
A blue and yellow city bus with the words "clean energy bus" on the side driving in downtown New York.
  • electric mobility
  • Clean Energy
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Air Quality
Insights

What to Watch at the First Africa Climate Summit

  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • renewable energy
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • COP28
Rooftop solar panels in Kenya
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • renewable energy
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • COP28
Technical Perspectives

How Community-Led Funding Can Unleash the Potential of the Loss and Damage Fund

  • climate finance
  • adaptation finance
  • International Climate Action
  • Climate Resilience
A man holding a round tub of belongings stands in flood waters surrounded by shacks..
  • climate finance
  • adaptation finance
  • International Climate Action
  • Climate Resilience
Technical Perspectives

To Design the Loss and Damage Fund and Funding Arrangements, Look Back to the Green Climate Fund

  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • adaptation finance
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
Mozambican villagers wait for help at a collapsed bridge after Cyclone Freddy
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • adaptation finance
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
Update

Celebrating 10 Years of Collaboration on Public Transportation from WRI and FedEx

  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
Avenue in Mexico City
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
Initiatives

Integrated Transport

Integrated transport
Initiatives
Construction on train station stop.
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset