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What Is Carbon Lock-in and How Can We Avoid It?

  • GHG emissions
  • fossil fuels
  • infrastructure
  • power plants
  • National Climate Action
  • COP26
A power plant with wind mills and a smoke column in the center.
  • GHG emissions
  • fossil fuels
  • infrastructure
  • power plants
  • National Climate Action
  • COP26

Does Biden’s American Jobs Plan Stack Up on Climate and Jobs?

  • infrastructure
  • climate policy
  • Economics
Wayne National Forest Solar Panel Construction
  • infrastructure
  • climate policy
  • Economics

STATEMENT: Biden Administration Releases American Jobs Plan with Major Clean Energy Investments

  • infrastructure
  • climate policy
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • Energy
  • infrastructure
  • climate policy
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • Energy
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A Green Recovery Starts with Cities

  • Cities
  • Climate Resilience
  • infrastructure
  • climate policy
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • natural infrastructure
  • Cities
  • Climate Resilience
  • infrastructure
  • climate policy
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • natural infrastructure

Developing Cities Need Cash. Land Value Capture Can Help

  • Cities
  • infrastructure
  • land use
  • development
  • Finance
  • Urban Development
People walk on and around an outdoor escalator at a train station in Shenzhen.
  • Cities
  • infrastructure
  • land use
  • development
  • Finance
  • Urban Development
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4 Opportunities to Shore Up the World's Coastal Ecosystems and Communities

  • infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • natural infrastructure
The coastal city of Sisal in Mexico.
  • infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • natural infrastructure

A Fairer and More Sustainable Post-COVID World in Latin America

  • biking
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • infrastructure
  • sanitation
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
  • transportation
  • Freshwater
Silhouette of a person with a bicycle overlooking Belo Horizonte's skyline. Photo by Mariana Gil/WRI.
  • biking
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • infrastructure
  • sanitation
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
  • transportation
  • Freshwater
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10 Charts Show the Economic Benefits of US Climate Action

  • Economics
  • infrastructure
  • climate policy
  • renewable energy
wind farm
  • Economics
  • infrastructure
  • climate policy
  • renewable energy
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Nature Is An Economic Winner for COVID-19 Recovery

  • coronavirus
  • infrastructure
  • Economics
  • Equity & Governance
canada-wetlands
  • coronavirus
  • infrastructure
  • Economics
  • Equity & Governance

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
News

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

RELEASE: Global Leaders Call for Urgent Action on Climate Adaptation; Commission Finds Adaptation Can Deliver $7.1 Trillion in Benefits

  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • Business
  • adaptation finance
  • infrastructure
  • agriculture
  • hurricanes
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • Business
  • adaptation finance
  • infrastructure
  • agriculture
  • hurricanes

Will Women Build the Sustainable Infrastructure of the Future?

  • Equity & Governance
  • infrastructure
  • Sustainable Development Goal 5
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • Gender
Installing a rooftop solar panel in Malawi
  • Equity & Governance
  • infrastructure
  • Sustainable Development Goal 5
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • Gender
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5 Ways the G20 Can Support Climate Action and Sustainable Development

  • adaptation finance
  • G20
  • infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
Buenos Aires from the Rio de la Plata.
  • adaptation finance
  • G20
  • infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
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Forests and Wetlands Are Water Infrastructure. New Green Bond Helps Finance Their Protection

  • Freshwater
  • green bonds
  • infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • natural infrastructure
  • Water Quality
Forest watershed
  • Freshwater
  • green bonds
  • infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • natural infrastructure
  • Water Quality
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset