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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

Indonesia’s Indigenous and Community Groups Secure Legal Rights to Forests

  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Equity & Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Forests
  • conservation
Local people from Takal Pasir Village conducting a survey of the Singkil peat swamp forest.
  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Equity & Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Forests
  • conservation

The Future of Extreme Heat in Cities: What We Know — and What We Don’t

  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Development
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate impacts
  • climate science
  • COP28
Brick layers during in a heatwave in New Delhi, India
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Development
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate impacts
  • climate science
  • COP28

Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are Using Satellite Data to Fight Deforestation

  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Man building a canopy blind in a tropical forest
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Technical Perspectives
Flooded streets of Hoi An Vietname
  • Finance
  • NDC
  • adaptation finance
  • climatewatch-pinned
Research

State of Climate Action 2023

Wind turbines on grassy field at golden hour.
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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
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Les Dernières Données Disponibles Confirment que les Feux de Forêts Se Multiplient

  • deforestation
  • fires
  • agriculture
  • Climate
  • climate science
Forest fire in Borneo, Indonesia
  • deforestation
  • fires
  • agriculture
  • Climate
  • climate science
Insights

The Latest Data Confirms: Forest Fires Are Getting Worse

  • deforestation
  • fires
  • agriculture
  • Climate
  • climate science
Forest fire in Borneo, Indonesia
  • deforestation
  • fires
  • agriculture
  • Climate
  • climate science
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

Ending Deforestation in the Amazon Can Grow Brazil’s GDP — But That’s Not the Only Reason to Do It

  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Climate
Silhouette of a man standing in a river surrounded by trees in the Amazon rainforest.
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Climate

Indonesia’s Indigenous People Secure Forest and Land Rights

  • Top Outcome: 2022
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
West Papua
  • Top Outcome: 2022
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
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
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
Initiatives

Restore Local

Cooperative members.
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What Does "Net-Zero Emissions" Mean? 8 Common Questions, Answered

  • climate science
  • carbon removal
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • greenhouse gases
  • COP26
  • COP28
Countries need a variety of solutions, including renewable energy and healthy forests, to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. Photo by Aaron Minnick/WRI.
  • climate science
  • carbon removal
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • greenhouse gases
  • COP26
  • COP28