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    Insights
    October 10, 2019

    More Water Shortages Mean Energy Investors Need New Ways to Manage Drought Risk

    • Water Security
    • fossil fuels
    • drought
    • Energy
    • Finance
    A thermal power plant in Rajasthan. Flickr/vedantlath
    • Water Security
    • fossil fuels
    • drought
    • Energy
    • Finance
    Insights
    October 3, 2019

    How Are Banks Doing on Sustainable Finance Commitments? Not Good Enough

    • Finance
    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    Goldman Sachs tower
    • Finance
    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    Finance
    Data
    October 3, 2019

    Green Targets Tool

    • Business
    • Finance
    • climate change
    Pile of money in different foreign currencies
    • Business
    • Finance
    • climate change
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    September 18, 2019

    As U.S. Government Retreats on Reducing Climate-warming Methane, 4 States Step Up

    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • fossil fuels
    Drilling rig
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • fossil fuels
    Climate
    Insights
    September 4, 2019

    Climate Disasters Are Getting Worse. Here's How Developing Countries Are Insuring Against Them

    • Finance
    • Climate
    • adaptation finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • extreme weather
    • Sustainable Development Goal 1
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • climate finance
    • hurricanes
    A child sits on water jugs provided after Cyclone Idai.
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • adaptation finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • extreme weather
    • Sustainable Development Goal 1
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • climate finance
    • hurricanes
    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    August 15, 2019

    Good News, Bad News: 4 Trends in US Energy Use

    • Energy
    • fossil fuels
    • renewable energy
    • Energy
    • fossil fuels
    • renewable energy
    Climate
    Initiatives
    August 15, 2019

    New Climate Economy

    Most of women covered by NHLP now have access to fresh vegetables for their meals and can even supply their surplus to be sold in the local market.
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    July 31, 2019

    A CO2 Direct Air Capture Plant Will Help Extract Oil in Texas. Could This Actually Be Good for the Climate?

    • U.S. Climate
    • Energy
    • carbon removal
    • climate change
    • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
    • fossil fuels
    CO2 removed from the air can be used to extract oil, like at this Michigan facility. Photo by U.S. Department of Energy/Flickr.
    • U.S. Climate
    • Energy
    • carbon removal
    • climate change
    • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
    • fossil fuels
    Climate
    North America
    Technical Perspectives
    July 8, 2019

    Natural Gas Beat Coal in the US. Will Renewables and Storage Soon Beat Natural Gas?

    • Energy
    • electric grid
    • climate change
    • fossil fuels
    • renewable energy
    • U.S. policy
    Wind turbines north of Corpus Christi, Texas.
    • Energy
    • electric grid
    • climate change
    • fossil fuels
    • renewable energy
    • U.S. policy
    Climate
    Technical Perspectives
    July 5, 2019

    INSIDER: The Green Climate Fund’s Proposed Approach to Costs: Not Fit for Adaptation

    • Finance
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    Finance
    Insights
    June 21, 2019

    Multilateral Development Bank Climate Finance in 2018: The Good, the Bad and the Urgent

    • adaptation finance
    • climate finance
    • Finance
    • multilateral development banks
    Solar panel for home use in Sri Lanka. Flickr/World Bank Photo Collection
    • adaptation finance
    • climate finance
    • Finance
    • multilateral development banks
    Europe
    Insights
    June 21, 2019

    Conservation Finance Takes Off as the Netherlands Issues One of the Largest Green Bonds Ever

    • adaptation finance
    • green bonds
    • Finance
    • Freshwater
    A floodplain restored through the Room for the River program. Image: Dutch Embassy
    • adaptation finance
    • green bonds
    • Finance
    • Freshwater
    Finance
    Insights
    May 6, 2019

    How the International Monetary Fund Is Waking Up to the Financial Risks of the Climate Crisis

    • Economics
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate change
    • Finance
    • fossil fuels
    Extraction machine coal mine coal mining excavator
    • Economics
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate change
    • Finance
    • fossil fuels
    Climate
    Outcomes
    April 30, 2019

    WRI Helps Set Paris Agreement in Motion

    • Finance
    • Economics
    • Top Outcome: 2018
    Negotiators at COP24 in Katowice, Poland adopted a robust Paris Rulebook to set the agreement in motion. Photo by UNclimatechange/Flickr
    • Finance
    • Economics
    • Top Outcome: 2018
    Finance
    Insights
    April 3, 2019

    How Much Should Countries Contribute to the Green Climate Fund's Replenishment?

    • adaptation finance
    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    Thermo-solar power plant in Morocco. Flickr/World Bank Photo Collection
    • adaptation finance
    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund

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