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3 Cutting-Edge Satellite Technologies Showcase Nature’s Impact on Water

  • nature-based solutions
  • water quality
  • forest monitoring
People in a boat on the Revantazon River in Costa Rica.
  • nature-based solutions
  • water quality
  • forest monitoring
Insights

Timber Harvesting and Climate Change Are Depleting Europe's Mature Forests

  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
  • forest products
A bulldozer harvests timber in a tall, lush pine forest.
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
  • forest products
Technical Perspectives

MDBs Need Major Reforms, Not Just More Funding, to Address Climate and Development Finance Challenges

  • Finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate finance
  • sustainable development goals
Women and children walking among tents in a refugee camp in Somalia.
  • Finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate finance
  • sustainable development goals
Update
aerial view of car on rainforest road
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • global forest watch
Update

Higher-Res Data Set Now Shows Trees Inside and Outside Forests Across the Tropics

  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • global forest watch
aerial view of car on rainforest road
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • global forest watch
Update
aerial view of car on rainforest road
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • global forest watch

STATEMENT: Landmark European Union Deforestation Regulation is Formally Adopted, Will Enter into Force 

  • deforestation
  • Forest Legality
  • forest monitoring
  • forest products
  • deforestation
  • Forest Legality
  • forest monitoring
  • forest products
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Paris’ Vision for a ‘15-Minute City’ Sparks a Global Movement

  • Cities
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • transportation
A street closed off for pedestrians to explore a market in Paris
  • Cities
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • transportation
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Clouds settle over the mountains in Virunga National Park in DRC.
  • Forests
  • forest products
  • forest monitoring
Update

New Methodology Helps Cities Lighten Their Tread on Tropical Forests

  • Forests
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • forest monitoring
Vigelandsparken in Oslo, Norway
  • Forests
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • forest monitoring

In Barranquilla, Colombia, Urban Parks Revitalize a Declining City

  • Cities
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Urban Transformations
Parque Sagrado Corazon in Barranquilla, Colombia
  • Cities
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Urban Transformations
Insights

The World’s Last Intact Forests Are Becoming Increasingly Fragmented

  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • forest monitoring
A car makes its way down a road that winds through woods
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • forest monitoring
Initiatives
Workshop participants on laptops.
A road leading into the woods with a welcome sign
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • fires
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Stakeholder Engagement Underpins a Bold Roadmap to Zero-carbon Buildings in Türkiye

  • low carbon development
  • Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Buildings
A photo of Istanbul, Turkey from the water
  • low carbon development
  • Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Buildings
Technical Perspectives

How SDG Partnerships and Their Funders Can Better Unlock Finance for Impact

  • sustainable development goals
  • Business
  • Economics
An electric bus in Jakarta
  • sustainable development goals
  • Business
  • Economics
Update

New Mapbuilder Tool Offers Improved Custom Geospatial Monitoring

  • forest monitoring
  • global forest watch
  • mapping
  • Forests
A family checks a map as they walk through a path in the woods
  • forest monitoring
  • global forest watch
  • mapping
  • Forests

Colombia Launches National Roadmap for Net Zero Carbon Buildings

  • Cities
  • low carbon development
  • Towards a More Equal City
Cityscape of Medellin, with buildings rising up the mountains
  • Cities
  • low carbon development
  • Towards a More Equal City
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset