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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

Updated Tool Can Help US Communities Include Forests and Trees in GHG Inventories

  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • greenhouse gases
  • GHG emissions
  • global forest watch
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • greenhouse gases
  • GHG emissions
  • global forest watch
Technical Perspectives

Why Greenhouse Gas Inventories Are Important for Natural and Working Lands — and How to Fix Them

  • carbon removal
  • greenhouse gases
  • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
  • GHG emissions
Yellowstone River in Montana, U.S.
  • carbon removal
  • greenhouse gases
  • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
  • GHG emissions
Technical Perspectives

INSIDER: Designing Low-carbon Product Standards for Cement and Steel in the United States

  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • industry
  • low carbon development
  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • industry
  • low carbon development

Lessons from Texas Freeze: 5 Ways to Strengthen US Energy Resilience

  • Climate Resilience
  • Energy
  • energy efficiency
  • renewable energy
Workers trying to fix a power line during a snowstorm in Texas.
  • Climate Resilience
  • Energy
  • energy efficiency
  • renewable energy

7 Ways the Biden Administration Can Reverse Climate Rollbacks

  • Climate Resilience
  • GHG emissions
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate science
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • U.S. policy
President-elect Joe Biden having a conversation with Mark Updegrove, former director of the LBJ Library.
  • Climate Resilience
  • GHG emissions
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate science
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • U.S. policy

5 Big Ideas to Address the Climate Crisis and Inequality in Cities

  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Climate Resilience
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • Urban Development
  • COP26
People gather in the middle of a Monterrey street during sunset
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Climate Resilience
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • Urban Development
  • COP26

Importing a Good Idea to the U.S.: Parametric Insurance and Climate-Related Risks

  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Paying for Paris
YMCA Mountain fire, Colorado, July 2020
  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Paying for Paris

Meeting the Climate Challenge Through a New Climate Federalism

  • Climate Resilience
  • climate policy
  • Climate
A city street in Washington, D.C. that ends at the Capitol building.
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate policy
  • Climate

Local Climate Action in US Proves Resilient to COVID-19

  • Climate
  • Buildings
  • Climate Resilience
  • coronavirus
  • GHG emissions
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
A windmill with a cloudy sky in the background.
  • Climate
  • Buildings
  • Climate Resilience
  • coronavirus
  • GHG emissions
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • transportation

Why the CFTC’s New Report on Climate Change and Financial Stability Matters

  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • commodities
  • Finance
Commodities futures trading, Chicago
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • commodities
  • Finance

3 Ways US Cities Are Investing in Clean Energy for Resilience

  • Climate Resilience
  • renewable energy
Blue Lake Rancheria solar system
  • Climate Resilience
  • renewable energy

5 Ways the US Government Can Kickstart a CarbonShot to Remove Carbon from the Atmosphere

  • carbon removal
  • agriculture
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • U.S. policy
carbon engineering direct air capture facility
  • carbon removal
  • agriculture
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • U.S. policy

2020 Budget Shows Progress on Climate Finance, But US Continues to Fall Behind Peers

  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
Despite presidential rhetoric against climate finance, the US Congress still allocates money for overseas climate spending.Photo by marnie webb/Flickr.
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund

How to Prevent City Climate Action from Becoming "Green Gentrification"

  • Climate Equity
  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • environmental justice
Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York. Photo by Robert Wolcheck/Flickr
  • Climate Equity
  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • environmental justice

As India Revises State Climate Plans, Who Should Have a Voice?

  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate policy
  • Climate Equity
  • public participation
Kids carrying water in the Indian countryside. Photo by Mr. Fink/Flickr
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate policy
  • Climate Equity
  • public participation
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset