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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

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

Complex Supply Chains Are Still a Major Barrier to Ending Deforestation

  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • data
  • agriculture
  • forest products
  • corporate sustainability
  • commodities
Plantation worker watching as a truck unloads freshly harvested oil palm branches.
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • data
  • agriculture
  • forest products
  • corporate sustainability
  • commodities

Increased Biofuel Production in the US Midwest May Harm Farmers and the Climate

  • biofuels
  • agriculture
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
  • land use
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity
  • Climate Equity
  • environmental justice
A farmer stands on top of a truck while a tractor unloads the crops into it.
  • biofuels
  • agriculture
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
  • land use
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity
  • Climate Equity
  • environmental justice
Outcomes

US Hospitals Reduce Emissions Through Plant-based Foods

  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Food
  • health
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • agriculture
Hospital dining workers.
  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Food
  • health
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • agriculture
Update
Leila Surratt.
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
Update
People walking on busy market street in San Nicolas, Argentina.
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
  • transportation
  • climate finance
Insights

Biomass Can Fight Climate Change, but Only if You Do it Right

  • carbon removal
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
A farmer examines an ear of corn with a farming machine behind him.
  • carbon removal
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
Insights

India’s Shift to Low-carbon Construction Must Not Leave Workers Behind

  • Buildings
  • low carbon development
  • GHG emissions
  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
Construction workers in colorful clothes stand near a cement mixer.
  • Buildings
  • low carbon development
  • GHG emissions
  • Climate
  • National Climate Action

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
News

RELEASE: WRI and Partners Launch REHOUSE Initiative Linking Housing, Urban Services, Climate Action

  • Cities
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
Technical Perspectives

How Advance Market Commitments and Contracts for Difference Can Help Create a Market for Green Industrial Products

  • Climate
  • industry
  • climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • Paying for Paris
Bundles of steel bars stacked on shelves on a large storeroom floor.
  • Climate
  • industry
  • climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • Paying for Paris
Update

Sixteen Businesses, One Mission: Advancing Landscape Restoration and Entrepreneurship Across Africa

  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • restoration
  • forest products
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Forests
Farmer with mangoes at  Goshen Farm Exporters Ltd.
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • restoration
  • forest products
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Forests
Update
Mumbai city skyline behind palms.
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset