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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
Technical Perspectives

Cities Can Tackle Clean Energy Goals By Focusing on Utility Planning

  • Clean Energy
  • Energy
  • net-zero emissions
Solar panels in the USA
  • Clean Energy
  • Energy
  • net-zero emissions

5 Ways US States Can Get More Electric School Buses on the Road

  • electric mobility
  • net-zero emissions
  • Climate
  • Air Quality
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric School Buses
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Schools
Electric school buses in the US
  • electric mobility
  • net-zero emissions
  • Climate
  • Air Quality
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric School Buses
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Schools
Technical Perspectives

Achieving Net-zero Emissions: Can the Build Back Better Act Help Get There?

  • Climate
  • net-zero emissions
  • National Climate Action
Wind turbines
  • Climate
  • net-zero emissions
  • National Climate Action

The U.S. Can Achieve Climate Commitments — With All of Society Strategy

  • Climate
  • net-zero emissions
  • Paris Agreement
  • National Climate Action
  • COP26
Architectural engineers working on solar panels
  • Climate
  • net-zero emissions
  • Paris Agreement
  • National Climate Action
  • COP26

How BlackRock and Vanguard Can Advance the Net-zero Emissions Movement

  • net-zero emissions
  • Climate
  • offsets
  • Finance
Capital building.
  • net-zero emissions
  • Climate
  • offsets
  • Finance

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
Initiatives
Ariel shot of a city with lots of trees.

ADVISORY: Joint Press Call on How the U.S. Can Cut Emissions 50% by 2030

  • net-zero emissions
  • Paris Agreement
  • International Climate Action
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • net-zero emissions
  • Paris Agreement
  • International Climate Action
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions

STATEMENT: Sustainability Leaders Urge U.S. Business CEOs to Lead on Climate Policy

  • net-zero emissions
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • net-zero emissions
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business

5 Big Ideas to Address the Climate Crisis and Inequality in Cities

  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Climate Resilience
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • Urban Development
  • COP26
People gather in the middle of a Monterrey street during sunset
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Climate Resilience
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • Urban Development
  • COP26

DNA Testing Can Save Trees from Illegal Logging – and You Can Help

  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • deforestation
  • biodiversity
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
Moss-covered bigleaf maple trees in the Hoh Rainforest
  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • deforestation
  • biodiversity
  • Forests
  • illegal logging

3 Cities Taking Urban Forestry to the Next Level

  • Cities
  • Air Quality
  • Forests
  • Urban Development
Cherry blossoms in Washington, DC park
  • Cities
  • Air Quality
  • Forests
  • Urban Development
Whooping crane chick. Photo by International Crane Foundation/Wikimedia Commons
  • deforestation
  • biodiversity
  • Forests

ADVISORY: Transforming Transportation 2015: Smart Cities for Shared Prosperity

  • Cities
  • transportation
  • Urban Development
  • Health & Road Safety
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • Urban Development
  • Health & Road Safety

Demystifying Transit-Oriented Development

  • Climate
  • Cities
  • Air Quality
  • Energy Access
  • GHG emissions
  • health
  • road safety
  • transportation
  • Urban Development
Transit-oriented development strategies can help urban areas develop sustainably, uniting land use, transport planning, and urban design to create more people-oriented cities. Pictured: Small businesses and pedestrians at a hub near Mexico City’s Metrobús bus rapid transit (BRT) system. Photo credit: Justin Swan/Flickr
  • Climate
  • Cities
  • Air Quality
  • Energy Access
  • GHG emissions
  • health
  • road safety
  • transportation
  • Urban Development

A Safe City is a Just City

  • Cities
  • road safety
  • transportation
  • Urban Development
  • Health & Road Safety
In Rio de Janeiro, proximity to transport is key to ensuring that residents have access to jobs and opportunities within the city. Photo Credit: EMBARQ-Brazil
  • Cities
  • road safety
  • transportation
  • Urban Development
  • Health & Road Safety
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset