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Prize for Cities Update: 250 Applications Received From 50+ Countries

  • Climate Resilience
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Urban Development
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  • Climate Resilience
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Urban Development

Why Disaster Preparedness Cannot Wait

  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • floods
  • climate impacts
 Monsoons in Chennai
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • floods
  • climate impacts

STATEMENT: Global Commission on Adaptation COVID-19 Call to Action

  • Climate Resilience
  • coronavirus
  • Climate Resilience
  • coronavirus

Collaboration on Nature-Based Solutions is Key to Resilient City Infrastructure

  • Economics
  • Climate Resilience
  • infrastructure
  • Cities
  • natural infrastructure
Cross-agency collaboration and investing in blue-green infrastructure resulted in Singapore’s redesigned Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park.
  • Economics
  • Climate Resilience
  • infrastructure
  • Cities
  • natural infrastructure

5 Benefits to Local Action on Climate Resilience

  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
Community members working in a local garden.
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
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PODCAST: Seeing the Ocean as a Solution, Not a Victim

  • Climate Resilience
  • podcasts
  • Economics
  • Ocean
A cluster of coral in the ocean.
  • Climate Resilience
  • podcasts
  • Economics
  • Ocean

3 Ways US Cities Are Investing in Clean Energy for Resilience

  • Climate Resilience
  • renewable energy
Blue Lake Rancheria solar system
  • Climate Resilience
  • renewable energy
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Europe Charts a Course for Sustainable Recovery from COVID-19

  • Buildings
  • Climate Resilience
  • coronavirus
  • land use
  • renewable energy
EU Parliament, Strasbourg, France
  • Buildings
  • Climate Resilience
  • coronavirus
  • land use
  • renewable energy
Mangroves by a river.
  • Climate Resilience
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Port of Funchal, Madeira
  • Climate Resilience
  • Ocean

Designing the COVID-19 Recovery for a Safer and More Resilient World

  • coronavirus
  • Economics
  • Climate Resilience
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  • coronavirus
  • Economics
  • Climate Resilience
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Raising Climate Ambition in the Time of COVID-19

  • Economics
  • Climate Resilience
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • coronavirus
  • National Climate Action
  • low carbon development
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  • Economics
  • Climate Resilience
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • coronavirus
  • National Climate Action
  • low carbon development
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The Ocean Genome Helps Fight Disease: Here's How We Save It

  • conservation
  • coronavirus
  • biodiversity
  • Equity & Governance
  • international climate policy
  • Ocean
  • protected areas
Algae, corals and fish in an ocean gully.
  • conservation
  • coronavirus
  • biodiversity
  • Equity & Governance
  • international climate policy
  • Ocean
  • protected areas
News
  • Aqueduct
  • floods
  • Climate Resilience
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
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Key Investments Can Build Resilience to Pandemics and Climate Change

  • coronavirus
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • Finance
Travelers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, March 6, 2020
  • coronavirus
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • Finance

City Leaders Must Prioritize Climate Resilience of Vulnerable Communities

  • Cities
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • poverty
Penjaringan, North Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Cities
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • poverty

2020 Budget Shows Progress on Climate Finance, But US Continues to Fall Behind Peers

  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
Despite presidential rhetoric against climate finance, the US Congress still allocates money for overseas climate spending.Photo by marnie webb/Flickr.
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
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8 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in the New Make-or-Break Decade

  • stories to watch
  • biodiversity
  • Business
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • Ocean
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  • stories to watch
  • biodiversity
  • Business
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • Ocean
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This Month in Climate Science, December 2019: Pre-term Births, Fewer Fishermen and Accelerated Arctic Melt

  • this month in climate science
  • climate science
  • biodiversity
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • health
  • Ocean
  • Freshwater
Two fishermen offloading lobster from their boat onto a floating dock in Maine.
  • this month in climate science
  • climate science
  • biodiversity
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • health
  • Ocean
  • Freshwater
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10 Big Changes for Forests Over the Last Decade

  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • biodiversity
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • restoration
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • biodiversity
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • restoration
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset