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    climate impacts human rights
    Climate
    Technical Perspectives
    July 22, 2022

    Can the Global Goal on Adaptation Be Locally Led?

    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation
    • Climate
    • climate impacts
    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation
    • Climate
    • climate impacts
    Cities
    Initiatives
    September 12, 2018

    Cities4Forests

    Pond and trees in front of city skyline.
    Climate
    Insights
    February 26, 2024

    What Is "Loss and Damage" from Climate Change? 8 Key Questions, Answered

    • climate impacts
    • climate policy
    • Climate Resilience
    • climatewatch-pinned
    • COP28
    Rising water levels submerging a house as heavy monsoon rains cause major floods in Baco, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines on July 23, 2021.
    • climate impacts
    • climate policy
    • Climate Resilience
    • climatewatch-pinned
    • COP28
    Cities
    Insights
    February 15, 2023

    5 Priorities for Urban Climate Action in 2023 and Beyond

    • transportation
    • electric mobility
    • Freshwater
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • nature-based solutions
    • poverty
    • human rights
    A new electric bus in New Delhi, India
    • transportation
    • electric mobility
    • Freshwater
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • nature-based solutions
    • poverty
    • human rights
    Climate
    Insights
    November 1, 2022

    5 Things Vulnerable Countries Need from Policymakers at COP27

    • Climate
    • climate impacts
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate Equity
    • Paris Agreement
    • paris rulebook
    • climate finance
    • COP27
    • climatewatch-pinned
    Ambulance driving through flood water on road in Mumbai, India, 2018.
    • Climate
    • climate impacts
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate Equity
    • Paris Agreement
    • paris rulebook
    • climate finance
    • COP27
    • climatewatch-pinned
    Climate
    Insights
    August 9, 2021

    5 Big Findings from the IPCC’s 2021 Climate Report

    • Energy
    • climate impacts
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate science
    • Paris Agreement
    • COP26
    Motorcycle on flooded street
    • Energy
    • climate impacts
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate science
    • Paris Agreement
    • COP26
    Cities
    Asia Africa Latin America Oceania North America Europe
    Insights
    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
    Finance
    Technical Perspectives
    August 14, 2023

    To Design the Loss and Damage Fund and Funding Arrangements, Look Back to the Green Climate Fund

    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • adaptation finance
    • climate change
    • climate impacts
    Mozambican villagers wait for help at a collapsed bridge after Cyclone Freddy
    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • adaptation finance
    • climate change
    • climate impacts
    Climate
    Insights
    May 8, 2023

    9 Charts Explain Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Country

    • climate change
    • climate impacts
    • climatewatch-pinned
    • greenhouse gases
    • GHG emissions
    • data
    • International Climate Action
    The main bazar in Paharganj, India, is full of people during the late afternoon.
    • climate change
    • climate impacts
    • climatewatch-pinned
    • greenhouse gases
    • GHG emissions
    • data
    • International Climate Action
    Food
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    Food-Climate Connection Rises on the Global Agenda

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Food Loss and Waste
    People picking vegetables at a farmers' market
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Climate
    Africa
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    South Africa Sets Stronger Emissions-reduction Target

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Solar panels on rooftop of building in Cape Town, South Africa
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Climate
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    COP26 Advances Ambitious Climate Action and Nature-based Solutions

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • International Climate Action
    • nature-based solutions
    Scotland, Glasgow, Clydebank, Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre aka SECC
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • International Climate Action
    • nature-based solutions
    Finance
    Asia
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    China Commits to Reduce Investment in Overseas Coal Power Projects

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Men working on the embankments of the Nairobi to Mombasa section of the China funded Standard Gauge Railway Project in Kenya
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Cities
    North America
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    US Infrastructure Bill Allocates Billions for Clean School Buses, Carbon Removal

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Multi-ethnic group of elementary age children getting on a school bus
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Cities
    Latin America
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    Brazil Commits to Reduce Traffic Deaths 50% by 2030

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Health & Road Safety
    People and traffic in Sao Paulo, Brazil
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Health & Road Safety
    Forests
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    Global Forest Watch Helps Indigenous Peoples Reduce Deforestation

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Aerial view over a tropical forest with a river meandering through the canopy
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Business
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    Private Equity Firms, Managing $232 Billion in Assets, Set Science-based Emissions Targets

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    buildings in Montreal, Canada
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Climate
    North America
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    US Government Sets Target to Reduce Emissions 50-52% by 2030

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    cleaning solar panels
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Climate
    Update
    August 8, 2022

    UN Human Rights Council Underscores the Need for Loss and Damage Action Ahead of COP27

    • United Nations
    • human rights
    • Climate Governance
    • Climate
    UN Geneva meeting in session
    • United Nations
    • human rights
    • Climate Governance
    • Climate

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