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    COP18 environmental justice
    Climate
    North America
    Technical Perspectives
    March 15, 2023

    CEQ’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool Needs to Consider How Burdens Add Up

    • environmental justice
    • Climate Equity
    • U.S. policy
    • Finance
    • Economics
    The Cleveland, Ohio skyline is seen between two trees and picnic tables.
    • environmental justice
    • Climate Equity
    • U.S. policy
    • Finance
    • Economics
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    January 24, 2023

    2 Years of Justice40: Integrating Environmental Justice into US Climate Policy

    • environmental justice
    • Equity
    • infrastructure
    • Energy
    • U.S. policy
    • Tracking Climate Action
    Smokestacks in the background of a neighborhood with rowhouses in Baltimore, MD
    • environmental justice
    • Equity
    • infrastructure
    • Energy
    • U.S. policy
    • Tracking Climate Action
    Energy
    North America
    Technical Perspectives
    August 4, 2022

    How Prepared Are US Cities to Implement the Justice40 Initiative?

    • environmental justice
    • Equity
    • Cities
    • infrastructure
    • Energy
    An electric bus against the backdrop of greenspace within a city
    • environmental justice
    • Equity
    • Cities
    • infrastructure
    • Energy
    Climate
    Insights
    April 19, 2022

    3 Essentials to Make Climate Action Stick

    • renewable energy
    • fossil fuels
    • net-zero emissions
    • Paris Agreement
    • environmental justice
    A man installs solar panels
    • renewable energy
    • fossil fuels
    • net-zero emissions
    • Paris Agreement
    • environmental justice
    Insights
    January 19, 2022

    From Promises to Action: 6 Sustainability Stories to Watch in 2022

    • net-zero emissions
    • climate change
    • fossil fuels
    • National Climate Action
    • International Climate Action
    • adaptation finance
    • environmental justice
    • health
    • deforestation
    • electric mobility
    • electric grid
    • climatewatch-pinned
    A solar farm in the forefront with a coal plant in the distance.
    • net-zero emissions
    • climate change
    • fossil fuels
    • National Climate Action
    • International Climate Action
    • adaptation finance
    • environmental justice
    • health
    • deforestation
    • electric mobility
    • electric grid
    • climatewatch-pinned
    Equity
    Insights
    December 9, 2021

    Why Aren't Countries Reporting Environmental Defender Killings?

    • Environmental Rights
    • environmental justice
    • Climate
    • deforestation
    • Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
    Cleared land in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
    • Environmental Rights
    • environmental justice
    • Climate
    • deforestation
    • Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
    Climate
    Insights
    November 11, 2021

    Climate Action Isn’t Reaching the Most Vulnerable — But it Could

    • International Climate Action
    • Climate Equity
    • environmental justice
    flash flood in Bangladesh
    • International Climate Action
    • Climate Equity
    • environmental justice
    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    September 16, 2021

    Funding for an Equitable Clean Energy Transition Already Exists

    • Clean Energy
    • Finance
    • environmental justice
    • Equity
    Wind turbine at dusk, Columbia Gorge, Wasco, Oregon, USA
    • Clean Energy
    • Finance
    • environmental justice
    • Equity
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    July 19, 2021

    Voting Rights Are Fundamental to Democracy and Climate Justice

    • Equity
    • climate change
    • environmental justice
    A group of people sitting at desks separated by white dividers with the United States flag on them.
    • Equity
    • climate change
    • environmental justice
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    June 17, 2021

    Innovative US Bill Tackles Climate Change, Local Pollution and Economic Inequality

    • Climate
    • environmental justice
    • pollution
    • climate policy
    Smoke coming out of a factory on a cloudy day.
    • Climate
    • environmental justice
    • pollution
    • climate policy
    Climate
    Insights
    May 4, 2021

    There Is No Climate Justice Without Racial Justice

    • environmental justice
    • Equity
    A climate protest. Climate activists walk with a sign that reads climate justice equals racial justice.
    • environmental justice
    • Equity
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    March 12, 2021

    Unpacking the US CLEAN Future Act

    • Buildings
    • coronavirus
    • net-zero emissions
    • climate policy
    • climate change
    • emissions
    • Energy
    • Energy Access
    • energy efficiency
    • environmental justice
    • GHG emissions
    • renewable energy
    • transportation
    The United States Capitol Building at night.
    • Buildings
    • coronavirus
    • net-zero emissions
    • climate policy
    • climate change
    • emissions
    • Energy
    • Energy Access
    • energy efficiency
    • environmental justice
    • GHG emissions
    • renewable energy
    • transportation
    Equity
    Latin America
    News
    September 30, 2020

    ADVISORY: Embargoed WRI Press Call: Mining Threatens Indigenous Communities Across the Amazon

    • Equity
    • deforestation
    • environmental justice
    • pollution
    • Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
    • Equity
    • deforestation
    • environmental justice
    • pollution
    • Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    August 5, 2020

    COVID-19 Bailouts Should Target Oil and Gas Workers and Communities, Not Companies

    • Energy
    • Economics
    • coronavirus
    • environmental justice
    • fossil fuels
    Two workers walking to a natural gas fracking operation. Photo by Justin Woolford/Flickr.
    • Energy
    • Economics
    • coronavirus
    • environmental justice
    • fossil fuels
    Equity
    Initiatives
    January 17, 2020

    Defending Earth’s Defenders Initiative

    Silas Matoke and his wife Yordana Yawate, pose for photograph as they harvesting sago known as 'pangkur' on the banks of the Tuba river in Honitetu village, West Seram regency, Maluku province, Indonesia on August 22, 2017.
    Cities
    Latin America North America
    Insights
    December 12, 2019

    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
    Equity
    Insights
    July 10, 2019

    Climate Action Will Shape People’s Lives. They Should Have a Chance to Shape Climate Action

    • Equity
    • Climate
    • long-term strategies
    • Sustainable Development Goal 16
    • Climate Equity
    • climate change
    • environmental justice
    • human rights
    • international climate policy
    climate migration
    • Equity
    • Climate
    • long-term strategies
    • Sustainable Development Goal 16
    • Climate Equity
    • climate change
    • environmental justice
    • human rights
    • international climate policy
    Africa
    Insights
    May 1, 2019

    Goldman Prize Winner Alfred Brownell Stopped Palm Oil Companies from Destroying Liberian Forests

    • Environmental Rights
    • Equity
    • Forests
    • environmental justice
    • land rights
    • low carbon development
    • Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
    Alfred Brownell on a street in Boston, Massachusetts
    • Environmental Rights
    • Equity
    • Forests
    • environmental justice
    • land rights
    • low carbon development
    • Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

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