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    November 29, 2023

    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
    Cities
    Asia Latin America
    News
    December 18, 2019

    RELEASE: Safe, Affordable Sanitation a Pipe Dream for Too Many Households in Global South

    • Towards a More Equal City
    • sanitation
    • waste
    • Cities
    • health
    • Towards a More Equal City
    • sanitation
    • waste
    • Cities
    • health
    Cities
    Asia
    News
    September 19, 2019

    RELEASE: New Report Finds National Governments Can Unlock Nearly $24 Trillion by Investing in Zero-Carbon Cities

    • Buildings
    • infrastructure
    • Urban Mobility
    • Cities
    • energy efficiency
    • low carbon development
    • Buildings
    • infrastructure
    • Urban Mobility
    • Cities
    • energy efficiency
    • low carbon development
    Energy
    Asia
    Insights
    September 17, 2019

    China Is Investing $13 Trillion in Construction. Will It Pursue Zero Carbon Buildings?

    • Cities
    • Buildings
    • Climate
    • Energy
    Guangzhou’s Pearl River Tower
    • Cities
    • Buildings
    • Climate
    • Energy
    Africa North America
    Insights
    October 28, 2016

    If Climate Change Is the Existential Crisis of Our Age, Why Isn’t it Getting More Attention?

    • climate science
    • drought
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • food security
    • sea level rise
    • U.S. policy
    California drought
    • climate science
    • drought
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • food security
    • sea level rise
    • U.S. policy
    Climate
    Africa
    Insights
    November 18, 2014

    How to Calculate Policies’ Effects on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    • International Climate Action
    • Energy
    • climate policy
    • GHG emissions
    • GHG Protocol
    • renewable energy
    Tunisia launched its renewable energy program, PROSOL ELEC, in 2010 to scale up solar photovoltaic systems in buildings throughout the country. Photo by World Bank/FLICKR.
    • International Climate Action
    • Energy
    • climate policy
    • GHG emissions
    • GHG Protocol
    • renewable energy
    Climate
    Africa
    Insights
    April 11, 2014

    What Is the Role for Transformation in Adaptation?

    • Finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • climate finance
    • climate science
    Authors of a paper on transformational adaptation have deemed the development of wheat-resistant maize in Africa “transformative." Photo credit: WorldFish, Flickr 2012
    • Finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • climate finance
    • climate science
    Climate
    Africa Asia Europe
    News
    March 30, 2014

    STATEMENT: WRI Responds to IPCC Report

    • climate science
    • climate change
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • Climate Resilience
    Climate
    Asia
    Insights
    July 2, 2013

    33 Cities Test New Framework for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Inventories

    • Cities
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • GHG Protocol
    • UNFCCC
    • Cities
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • GHG Protocol
    • UNFCCC
    Africa
    Data
    October 6, 2009

    Uganda: Density of Households Without Improved Sanitation Facilities, 2002

    • Equity & Governance
    • poverty
    • sanitation
    • Equity & Governance
    • poverty
    • sanitation
    Africa
    Data
    October 6, 2009

    Uganda: Poverty Density in Rural Subcounties That Failed HSSP I Target for Improved Sanitation Facilities

    • Equity & Governance
    • poverty
    • sanitation
    • Equity & Governance
    • poverty
    • sanitation
    Africa
    Data
    October 6, 2009

    Uganda: Poverty Rate in Rural Subcounties That Failed HSSP I Target for Improved Sanitation Facilities

    • Equity & Governance
    • poverty
    • sanitation
    • Equity & Governance
    • poverty
    • sanitation
    Africa
    Data
    October 6, 2009

    Uganda: Rural Subcounties That Failed to Reach HSSP I Target for Improved Sanitation Facilicities in 2002

    • Equity & Governance
    • poverty
    • sanitation
    • Equity & Governance
    • poverty
    • sanitation
    Africa
    Data
    October 6, 2009

    Uganda: Proportion on Households with Improved Sanitation Facilities, 2002

    • Equity & Governance
    • poverty
    • sanitation
    • Equity & Governance
    • poverty
    • sanitation
    Africa
    Data
    May 1, 2009

    Uganda: Linking Wetlands and Sanitation in the Sezibwa Wetland System

    • poverty
    • wetlands
    • sanitation
    • poverty
    • wetlands
    • sanitation

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