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The Inequity of Water: While Scarcity Is Felt Locally, its Causes Are Increasingly Global

  • Freshwater
  • agriculture
  • Water Security
  • food security
Amhara farmers carrying corn crop near Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve.
  • Freshwater
  • agriculture
  • Water Security
  • food security
Technical Perspectives
Flooded streets of Hoi An Vietname
  • Finance
  • NDC
  • adaptation finance
  • climatewatch-pinned
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5 Takeaways for Companies Setting Science-based Freshwater Targets

  • science based targets
  • water risk
  • Water Security
  • Aqueduct
A person wearing a hat sits on the rocks overlooking Laguna Churup in Peru.
  • science based targets
  • water risk
  • Water Security
  • Aqueduct
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The Next Phase of Corporate Sustainability: Addressing Consumer Water Use

  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • Water Security
  • water risk
Washing dishes.
  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • Water Security
  • water risk
Update

Four Ways Open Reservoir Data Can Support Transboundary Peacekeeping

  • Freshwater
  • Water Security
  • water risk
The Melkstal, Salmonsdam Road, Stanford, South Africa
  • Freshwater
  • Water Security
  • water risk
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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

WRI Joins the Millennium Water Alliance

  • Freshwater
  • Water Security
  • development
Lake Tana, Ethiopia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Security
  • development
Outcomes

Fiji Adopts a National Climate Finance Strategy

  • Top Outcome: 2022
  • adaptation finance
Fiji
  • Top Outcome: 2022
  • adaptation finance
Outcomes

China Elevates Climate Adaptation on National Agenda

  • Top Outcome: 2022
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation finance
Trees on barren mountains in China’s Hebei province
  • Top Outcome: 2022
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation finance
Update
Fisherman in Tanzania lake
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
  • Water Security
Insights

What It Takes to Attract Private Investment to Climate Adaptation

  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • adaptation
  • Paying for Paris
People walk down a heavily flooded market street in Lagos, Nigeria
  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • adaptation
  • Paying for Paris
News

STATEMENT: UN Water Conference Delivers Some Game-Changing Commitments, Yet Far More Action and Finance Needed to Address Global Water Crisis

  • Freshwater
  • Water Security
  • urban water resilience
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
  • Freshwater
  • Water Security
  • urban water resilience
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • Urban Development

South African Cities Show Commitment to Accelerate Water Resilience at 2023 UN Water Conference

  • Freshwater
  • Water Security
  • Cities
  • urban water resilience
  • Urban Development
Aerial view of Johannesburg
  • Freshwater
  • Water Security
  • Cities
  • urban water resilience
  • Urban Development
Insights

How Floods in Pakistan Threaten Global Security

  • floods
  • Water Security
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
  • climate change
Flood waters soak through a housing settlement in Pakistan.
  • floods
  • Water Security
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
  • climate change
Insights

What the World Really Needs to Adapt to Climate Change

  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • Finance
  • adaptation
  • COP27
  • adaptation finance
  • climate change
  • COP28
Women transplanting rice in flooded paddy field.
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • Finance
  • adaptation
  • COP27
  • adaptation finance
  • climate change
  • COP28
Insights

How Forests Near and Far Benefit People in Cities

  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Water Quality
  • Water Security
  • health
  • Climate
  • biodiversity
urban forest
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Water Quality
  • Water Security
  • health
  • Climate
  • biodiversity
Research

Better Forests, Better Cities

Cityscape behind lush forest.
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset