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    COP20 drought
    Asia
    Insights
    December 4, 2014

    Energy-gulping Desalination Can’t Solve China’s Water Crisis Alone

    • Energy
    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • drought
    • Cities
    • water risk
    Tianjin is home to the Beijiang and Dagang desalination plants, which together are expected to account for a third of China’s 1.5-2 million-ton capacity by 2015. (Tianjin, China) Photo by Sam Gao/Flickr.
    • Energy
    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • drought
    • Cities
    • water risk
    Finance
    Insights
    December 4, 2014

    Estimating Climate Finance Mobilization Toward $100 Billion and Beyond

    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • COP20
    • climate investment funds
    • climate finance
    • Finance
    Making the transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy is going to take a lot of investment, and the limited budgets of the public sector can’t tackle it alone. Photo by DFID/Flickr.
    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • COP20
    • climate investment funds
    • climate finance
    • Finance
    Climate
    Insights
    December 4, 2014

    How to Make Progress on Climate Adaptation during COP 20

    • International Climate Action
    • COP20
    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • climate change
    In Lima, negotiators have a short window of opportunity to cut through a tangled knot of potential issues in order to chart a clear path to an agreement that accelerates adaptation action in Paris. Photo by UN/Flickr.
    • International Climate Action
    • COP20
    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • climate change
    Climate
    Latin America
    News
    December 3, 2014

    ADVISORY: Latin American Countries to Launch Initiative 20x20 to Restore 20 Million Hectares of Degraded Land

    • Forests
    • Equity & Governance
    • COP20
    • restoration
    • international climate policy
    • UNFCCC
    • Forests
    • Equity & Governance
    • COP20
    • restoration
    • international climate policy
    • UNFCCC
    Climate
    Latin America
    Insights
    December 3, 2014

    3 Climate Adaptation Lessons from Brazil’s Cities

    • Freshwater
    • Cities
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • drought
    Temperatures are climbing to record-breaking highs in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Photo by Bruna Cabrera/Flickr.
    • Freshwater
    • Cities
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • drought
    Climate
    Africa Asia Europe Latin America North America
    Insights
    November 26, 2014

    What Would Success Look Like at COP 20 in Lima?

    • COP20
    • climate change
    • international climate policy
    • UNFCCC
    Lima is a major milestone on the path to Paris and the 2015 climate agreement. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons
    • COP20
    • climate change
    • international climate policy
    • UNFCCC
    Climate
    Insights
    November 25, 2014

    6 Graphs Explain the World’s Top 10 Emitters

    • International Climate Action
    • COP20
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • Equity & Governance
    • UNFCCC
    China currently ranks as world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Photo by Ding Zhou/Flickr
    • International Climate Action
    • COP20
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • Equity & Governance
    • UNFCCC
    Climate
    Asia North America
    Insights
    November 25, 2014

    Opportunities in New Climate Economy

    • Climate
    • climate change
    • COP20
    • Economics
    • GHG emissions
    • Paris Agreement
    Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama. Photo by U.S. Embassy, The Hague/Flickr.
    • Climate
    • climate change
    • COP20
    • Economics
    • GHG emissions
    • Paris Agreement
    Climate
    Asia North America
    Insights
    November 20, 2014

    The China-U.S. Climate Agreement: By the Numbers

    • International Climate Action
    • COP20
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • UNFCCC
    China plans to increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 20 percent by 2020. (Yunnan, China) Photo by Mingjia Zhou/Flickr.
    • International Climate Action
    • COP20
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • UNFCCC
    Forests
    Latin America
    Insights
    November 6, 2014

    Três Mapas que Ajudam a Explicar a Crise da Água em São Paulo, Brasil

    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • deforestation
    • drought
    • global forest watch
    • water risk
    São Paulo, Brasil. Fonte: Fernando Stankuns/Flickr
    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • deforestation
    • drought
    • global forest watch
    • water risk
    Forests
    Latin America
    Insights
    November 4, 2014

    3 Maps Help Explain São Paulo, Brazil’s Water Crisis

    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • deforestation
    • drought
    • water risk
    São Paulo, Brazil and neighboring states are experiencing the worst drought to hit the region in the past 80 years. Photo credit: Fernando Stankuns, Flickr
    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • deforestation
    • drought
    • water risk
    Climate
    Insights
    April 14, 2014

    Water Stress Magnifies Drought’s Negative Impacts throughout the United States

    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • drought
    • climate change
    • water risk
    Drought affected corn crops in Texas in August 2013. Photo credit: USDA, Flickr
    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • drought
    • climate change
    • water risk
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    February 13, 2014

    Amidst California’s Drought, an Opportunity for Action

    • climate change
    • drought
    • climate impacts
    The majority of California is currently blanketed in "extreme drought." Photo credit: Amber Tsuchida, Flickr
    • climate change
    • drought
    • climate impacts
    Finance
    Africa
    Insights
    October 8, 2013

    Q&A with African Risk Capacity: How Innovative Financing Models Can Build Climate Change Resilience

    • Climate
    • drought
    • Climate Resilience
    • agriculture
    • climate finance
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    A Tanzania farmer shows the effects of drought on her maize crop. Photo credit: Anne Wangalachi/CIMMYT
    • Climate
    • drought
    • Climate Resilience
    • agriculture
    • climate finance
    • climate change
    • extreme weather

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