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3 Things Cities Can Learn from Cape Town’s Impending “Day Zero” Water Shut-Off

  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • drought
  • mapping
  • natural infrastructure
  • water risk
Cape Town, South Africa
  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • drought
  • mapping
  • natural infrastructure
  • water risk
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Visualizing a Warmer World: 10 Maps of Climate Vulnerability

  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
  • mapping
Storm surge in New Orleans
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
  • mapping
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Photo Essay: How Climate Change Affects the Urban Poor in India and Indonesia

  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • climate change
Asian man standing by waterway
  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • climate change
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3 Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future

  • Paris Agreement
  • Economics
  • natural infrastructure
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
Solar panel installation in Rwanda
  • Paris Agreement
  • Economics
  • natural infrastructure
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals

Why We Need Transformative Approaches to Managing Climate Change Risks Now

  • Climate Resilience
  • COP23
  • climate change
Farmers in Ethiopia.
  • Climate Resilience
  • COP23
  • climate change

At COP23, Prioritizing Adaptation and Addressing Loss and Damage

  • Climate Resilience
  • COP23
  • climate change
Hurricane Maria's devastating effect on Puerto Rico won't escape notice at COP.
  • Climate Resilience
  • COP23
  • climate change

Unpacking the Complex Relationship Between Forests and Water Supply in Latin America

  • Freshwater
  • restoration
  • natural infrastructure
  • Water Quality
pasture in Costa Rica
  • Freshwater
  • restoration
  • natural infrastructure
  • Water Quality
News

ADVISORY: WRI Honors Darren Walker and Feike Sijbesma at "Courage to Lead" Dinner

  • conservation
  • land use
  • Climate Resilience
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • environmental justice
  • food security
  • health
  • human rights
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
  • conservation
  • land use
  • Climate Resilience
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • environmental justice
  • food security
  • health
  • human rights
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
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Amid Tragedy, an Opportunity for Smart Recovery

  • Cities
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • Urban Development
Waiting for rescue after Hurricane Katrina
  • Cities
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • Urban Development
Sailors transport evacuees during Hurricane Irma relief
  • Climate Resilience
  • hurricanes

Keeping Heads Above Water: Lessons for Building Resilience After Flooding in South Asia and Texas

  • floods
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • sea level rise
  • water pollution
Escapees from hurricane flooding.
  • floods
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • sea level rise
  • water pollution

After the Deluge: How Houston Can Rebuild With Resilience

  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • Climate
Hurricane Harvey from space.
  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • Climate
Insights

A Global Greening: Green Building Certification Programs Make Gains

  • Buildings
  • natural infrastructure
WRI office renovated lobby
  • Buildings
  • natural infrastructure
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Without Forests, Jakarta's Water Situation Worsens

  • Freshwater
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • natural infrastructure
A flooded marketplace in Jakarta.
  • Freshwater
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • natural infrastructure
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Meet the Experts: Q&A with Christina Chan

  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate policy
  • international climate policy
Christina Chan, Climate Resilience Practice Director
  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate policy
  • international climate policy
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  • Climate Resilience

When Improving America’s Infrastructure, Don’t Forget Forests

  • Freshwater
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • natural infrastructure
  • Water Quality
  • water risk
Watershed
  • Freshwater
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • natural infrastructure
  • Water Quality
  • water risk
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Embracing the Unknown: Understanding Climate Change Uncertainty

  • Climate Resilience
  • climate science
People stand amidst the devastation caused by typhoon Haiyan.
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate science
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset