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    commodities drought
    Forests
    Insights
    February 29, 2024

    Complex Supply Chains Are Still a Major Barrier to Ending Deforestation

    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • data
    • agriculture
    • forest products
    • corporate sustainability
    • commodities
    Plantation worker watching as a truck unloads freshly harvested oil palm branches.
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • data
    • agriculture
    • forest products
    • corporate sustainability
    • commodities
    Forests
    Insights
    July 20, 2023

    Wood Is Not the Climate-friendly Building Material Some Claim it to Be

    • Food
    • land use
    • Climate
    • commodities
    • Buildings
    unloading log truck at lumber processing mill
    • Food
    • land use
    • Climate
    • commodities
    • Buildings
    Freshwater
    Insights
    March 30, 2023

    UN Water Conference 2023: Not Enough Game-changing Commitments

    • Corporate Water Stewardship
    • Water Quality
    • water risk
    • floods
    • drought
    Girls collect water in Rajasthan, India
    • Corporate Water Stewardship
    • Water Quality
    • water risk
    • floods
    • drought
    Forests
    Insights
    April 5, 2022

    How a New EU Regulation Can Reduce Deforestation Globally

    • deforestation
    • regulation
    • Forests
    • commodities
    Aerial footage of palm oil and the forest in Sentabai Village, West Kalimantan, 2017.
    • deforestation
    • regulation
    • Forests
    • commodities
    Freshwater
    Latin America
    Insights
    August 30, 2021

    Improving Water Security Helps Reduce the Gender Gap in Mexico City

    • Forests
    • Gender
    • drought
    • infrastructure
    • water risk
    A woman selling snacks from a cart in the middle of a busy plaza in Mexico City.
    • Forests
    • Gender
    • drought
    • infrastructure
    • water risk
    Freshwater
    Asia
    Insights
    August 26, 2021

    How Water Challenges Threaten India’s Energy Security

    • water risk
    • renewable energy
    • power plants
    • drought
    • floods
    • Aqueduct
    Power plant in dry land
    • water risk
    • renewable energy
    • power plants
    • drought
    • floods
    • Aqueduct
    Ocean
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    14 World Leaders Commit to a Sustainable Ocean Economy

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    A seaweed farmer in Nusa Penida, Indonesia. Photo by pradeep_kmpk14/iStock
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Climate
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Important Countries Identify Opportunities for Climate Action

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    A factory worker assembles solar panels in Dezhou, China. Photo by Cultura Creative RF/Alamy
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Cities
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Cities Prioritize Public Transportation and Cycling in Response to COVID-19

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Health & Road Safety
    Bikers are protected by road barriers in India. Photo by Rajeev Malagi/WRI India.
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Health & Road Safety
    Food
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Nearly 200 Food Suppliers Commit to Cut Food Loss and Waste in Half

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    A chef composts vegetable scraps. Photo by stockstudioX/iStock
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Equity & Governance
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    12 Governments in Latin America and the Caribbean Ratify Escazú Agreement

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Climate activist in Mexico City, Mexico. Photo by Diego Rodriguez via 350.org/Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Cities
    Latin America
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Mexico Adds Fundamental Right to Mobility to Its Constitution

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Urban Mobility
    Bikers, skateboarders and cars coexist in Merida, Mexico. Photo by Megapress/Alamy
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Urban Mobility
    Energy
    Asia
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Indonesia and the Philippines Take Action to Accelerate Clean Energy Transition

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Government-installed solar panels in the village of Weepatando in Sumba island, Indonesia. Photo by Asian Development Bank/Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Cities
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Countries and Cities Embrace a New UN Decade for Road Safety

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Health & Road Safety
    A woman paints pedestrian lanes on a road in São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Victor Moriyama/WRI Brasil
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Health & Road Safety
    Freshwater
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    World Bank Unlocks $2 Billion for Integrated Green and Gray Infrastructure

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Coastal town in Silhouette, Seychelles. Photo by Ian Badenhorst/Unsplash
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Cities
    Asia
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    India’s 15th Finance Commission Supports Air Quality and Forest Protection

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    A forest in West Bengali, India. Photo by Suprakash Shown/Unsplash
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Forests
    Insights
    February 11, 2021

    Just 7 Commodities Replaced an Area of Forest Twice the Size of Germany Between 2001 and 2015

    • commodities
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • Forests
    • commodities
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • Forests
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    December 16, 2020

    China Can Save Forests While Strengthening Its Economic Resilience

    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    • commodities
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    Bolivian soy plantation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    • commodities
    • deforestation
    • agriculture

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