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    Cities
    Outcomes
    April 30, 2019

    Governments, Companies and NGOs Adopt Shared Mobility Principles

    • Top Outcome: 2018
    • Health & Road Safety
    Shared bikes in Beijing. Photo by Kentaro IEMOTO/Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2018
    • Health & Road Safety
    Cities
    Asia
    Outcomes
    April 30, 2019

    WRI Informs Urban Development Roadmap for Karnataka, India

    • Top Outcome: 2018
    A street in Bangalore, India. Photo by Ryan ruffin_ready/Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2018
    Cities
    Asia Africa Latin America
    Outcomes
    April 30, 2019

    Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America Create Safer, More Sustainable Streets

    • Top Outcome: 2018
    • Health & Road Safety
    Rua Completa Joel Carlos Borges. Photo by Pedro Mascaro/WRI Brasil
    • Top Outcome: 2018
    • Health & Road Safety
    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
    Forests
    Outcomes
    April 30, 2019

    Forest Resilience Bond Helps Reduce Wildfire Risk in California

    • Freshwater
    • Top Outcome: 2018
    US Forest Service, partners and local community members visit a restoration site in the North Yuba River Watershed in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. Photo by Leah Schleifer/WRI
    • Freshwater
    • Top Outcome: 2018
    Forests
    Outcomes
    April 30, 2019

    Forest Watcher Mobile App and Alerts Help Curb Illegal Deforestation

    • Top Outcome: 2018
    Members of a community group in Riau, Indonesia, traveling by boat use WRI’s Forest Watcher app to monitor deforestation. Photo by Jikalihari/WRI
    • Top Outcome: 2018
    Food
    Outcomes
    April 30, 2019

    32 Major Corporations Start “Measuring to Manage” Food Loss and Waste

    • Top Outcome: 2018
    A Tesco grocery store in South West England. Photo by Roger A Smith/Geograph
    • Top Outcome: 2018
    Energy
    Latin America
    Outcomes
    April 30, 2019

    Building Efficiency Accelerator Saves Energy in Colombia and Mexico

    • Energy
    • Top Outcome: 2018
    Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. Photo by Pedro Szekely/Wikimedia Commons
    • Energy
    • Top Outcome: 2018
    Forests
    Asia Africa
    Outcomes
    April 30, 2019

    Indonesia and Democratic Republic of the Congo Accelerate Social and Community Forest Management

    • Top Outcome: 2018
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    A man in Ilanga Village, DRC, holds a map showing commercial concessions on community lands. Photo by Molly Bergen/WCS, WWF, WRI
    • Top Outcome: 2018
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Cities
    Initiatives
    September 12, 2018

    Cities4Forests

    Pond and trees in front of city skyline.
    Climate
    Asia
    Insights
    May 20, 2016

    Lessons on Implementing Community-Based Climate Adaptation Plans in the Lower Mekong Basin

    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • rivers
    Boats in a river
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • rivers
    Climate
    Insights
    March 5, 2015

    World’s 15 Countries with the Most People Exposed to River Floods

    • Freshwater
    • Economics
    • Aqueduct
    • floods
    • climate change
    • mapping
    • rivers
    • water risk
    Citizens flee floods in Sri Lanka. Photo by trokilinochchi/Wikimedia Commons.
    • Freshwater
    • Economics
    • Aqueduct
    • floods
    • climate change
    • mapping
    • rivers
    • water risk
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    July 30, 2014

    New French Satellite Imagery to Help Forest Management in the Congo Basin

    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • mapping
    • rivers
    When it comes to monitoring forests, the Congo Basin remains one of the most challenging environments in the world. Photo Credit: CIFOR/Flickr
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • mapping
    • rivers
    Freshwater
    Insights
    March 20, 2014

    World’s 18 Most Water-Stressed Rivers

    • Aqueduct
    • mapping
    • rivers
    • Freshwater
    • water risk
    Glen Canyon Dam in the Colorado River Basin. Photo credit: James Marvin Phelps
    • Aqueduct
    • mapping
    • rivers
    • Freshwater
    • water risk
    Climate
    Insights
    January 14, 2014

    Multinationals Need to Take Notice and Take Action on Water Risk Data

    • Freshwater
    • Cities
    • Aqueduct
    • climate change
    • rivers
    • water risk
    Brazil has 12% of the world's freshwater resources, but its industries, farms, and communities are concentrated along the coasts, unable to access much of the country's plentiful resources. Photo credit: Flickr/John Wiseman
    • Freshwater
    • Cities
    • Aqueduct
    • climate change
    • rivers
    • water risk
    Freshwater
    Data
    December 12, 2013

    Aqueduct Country and River Basin Rankings [Datasets]

    • Business
    • Freshwater
    • water risk
    • rivers
    • data
    • Business
    • Freshwater
    • water risk
    • rivers
    • data
    Freshwater
    Data
    December 12, 2013

    Aqueduct Country and River Basin Rankings [Map]

    • Business
    • Freshwater
    • water risk
    • rivers
    • mapping
    • Business
    • Freshwater
    • water risk
    • rivers
    • mapping

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