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4 Shifts Needed to Create a Carbon-free Power System

  • GHG emissions
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • power plants
  • renewable energy
Wind turbines and solar power panels
  • GHG emissions
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • power plants
  • renewable energy
Update
A river flows through Masai Mara Nature Reserve in Kenya
  • Business
  • Freshwater
  • power plants
Technical Perspectives
A power plant on a sea shore with smoke emerging from the towers.
  • climate change
  • power plants
  • Aqueduct
Insights

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
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What Is Carbon Lock-in and How Can We Avoid It?

  • GHG emissions
  • fossil fuels
  • infrastructure
  • power plants
  • National Climate Action
  • COP26
A power plant with wind mills and a smoke column in the center.
  • GHG emissions
  • fossil fuels
  • infrastructure
  • power plants
  • National Climate Action
  • COP26
Outcomes
A seaweed farmer in Nusa Penida, Indonesia. Photo by pradeep_kmpk14/iStock
  • Top Outcome: 2020
Outcomes
A factory worker assembles solar panels in Dezhou, China. Photo by Cultura Creative RF/Alamy
  • Top Outcome: 2020
Outcomes

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
Outcomes
A chef composts vegetable scraps. Photo by stockstudioX/iStock
  • Top Outcome: 2020
Climate activist in Mexico City, Mexico. Photo by Diego Rodriguez via 350.org/Flickr
  • Top Outcome: 2020

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

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
Outcomes
Coastal town in Silhouette, Seychelles. Photo by Ian Badenhorst/Unsplash
  • Top Outcome: 2020
Outcomes
A forest in West Bengali, India. Photo by Suprakash Shown/Unsplash
  • Top Outcome: 2020
Insights

China Faces 4 Big Risks if it Continues Building More Coal Plants

  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • power plants
  • renewable energy
  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • power plants
  • renewable energy

Pennsylvania is Joining RGGI. Here’s Why That Matters

  • Energy
  • electric grid
  • GHG emissions
  • power plants
Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania
  • Energy
  • electric grid
  • GHG emissions
  • power plants
Data

47% of World's Thermal Power Capacity is in Highly Water-Stressed Areas

  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • power plants
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • power plants
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset