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From Promises to Action: 6 Sustainability Stories to Watch in 2022

  • net-zero emissions
  • climate change
  • fossil fuels
  • National Climate Action
  • International Climate Action
  • adaptation finance
  • environmental justice
  • health
  • deforestation
  • electric mobility
  • electric grid
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • stories to watch
A solar farm in the forefront with a coal plant in the distance.
  • net-zero emissions
  • climate change
  • fossil fuels
  • National Climate Action
  • International Climate Action
  • adaptation finance
  • environmental justice
  • health
  • deforestation
  • electric mobility
  • electric grid
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • stories to watch

Why Aren't Countries Reporting Environmental Defender Killings?

  • Environmental Rights
  • environmental justice
  • Climate
  • deforestation
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Cleared land in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
  • Environmental Rights
  • environmental justice
  • Climate
  • deforestation
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
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Climate Action Isn’t Reaching the Most Vulnerable — But it Could

  • International Climate Action
  • Climate Equity
  • environmental justice
  • COP28
flash flood in Bangladesh
  • International Climate Action
  • Climate Equity
  • environmental justice
  • COP28

Funding for an Equitable Clean Energy Transition Already Exists

  • Clean Energy
  • Finance
  • environmental justice
  • Equity & Governance
Wind turbine at dusk, Columbia Gorge, Wasco, Oregon, USA
  • Clean Energy
  • Finance
  • environmental justice
  • Equity & Governance
Insights

How Can Brazil Protect the Amazon and Advance Climate Action?

  • Climate
  • deforestation
  • climate finance
  • biodiversity
  • forest monitoring
  • forest products
Amazon rainforest
  • Climate
  • deforestation
  • climate finance
  • biodiversity
  • forest monitoring
  • forest products
Initiatives

Systems Change Lab

Person in crowd holding sign that reads "SYSTEM CHANGE NOT CLIMATE CHANGE" with Earth image on cardboard sign.

Voting Rights Are Fundamental to Democracy and Climate Justice

  • Equity & Governance
  • climate change
  • environmental justice
A group of people sitting at desks separated by white dividers with the United States flag on them.
  • Equity & Governance
  • climate change
  • environmental justice

Innovative US Bill Tackles Climate Change, Local Pollution and Economic Inequality

  • Climate
  • environmental justice
  • pollution
  • climate policy
Smoke coming out of a factory on a cloudy day.
  • Climate
  • environmental justice
  • pollution
  • climate policy
Insights

There Is No Climate Justice Without Racial Justice

  • environmental justice
  • Equity & Governance
A climate protest. Climate activists walk with a sign that reads climate justice equals racial justice.
  • environmental justice
  • Equity & Governance
News

ADVISORY: Embargoed Press Call on WRI’s 2020 Tree Cover Loss Data with Analysis and Insights

  • deforestation
  • forest monitoring
  • biodiversity
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • deforestation
  • forest monitoring
  • biodiversity
  • Forests
  • global forest watch

Unpacking the US CLEAN Future Act

  • Buildings
  • coronavirus
  • net-zero emissions
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • Energy
  • Energy Access
  • energy efficiency
  • environmental justice
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
The United States Capitol Building at night.
  • Buildings
  • coronavirus
  • net-zero emissions
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • Energy
  • Energy Access
  • energy efficiency
  • environmental justice
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
News

STATEMENT: Biden Administration Commits to Protect 30% of U.S. Land and Ocean by 2030

  • Food
  • Forests
  • conservation
  • land use
  • biodiversity
  • fisheries
  • Ocean
  • protected areas
  • Food
  • Forests
  • conservation
  • land use
  • biodiversity
  • fisheries
  • Ocean
  • protected areas
Insights

7 Ways to Bridge the Blue Finance Gap

  • Ocean
  • Economics
  • biodiversity
  • Finance
An coral reef with fish.
  • Ocean
  • Economics
  • biodiversity
  • Finance

ADVISORY: Embargoed WRI Press Call: Mining Threatens Indigenous Communities Across the Amazon

  • Equity & Governance
  • deforestation
  • environmental justice
  • pollution
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
  • deforestation
  • environmental justice
  • pollution
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

COVID-19 Bailouts Should Target Oil and Gas Workers and Communities, Not Companies

  • Energy
  • Economics
  • coronavirus
  • environmental justice
  • fossil fuels
Two workers walking to a natural gas fracking operation. Photo by Justin Woolford/Flickr.
  • Energy
  • Economics
  • coronavirus
  • environmental justice
  • fossil fuels
Insights

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
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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
climate march
  • stories to watch
  • biodiversity
  • Business
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • Ocean