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E-Buses: Operational Tests and Customer Surveys Facilitate Transition and Highlight Benefits

  • Cities
  • Electric Mobility
  • transportation
  • Integrated Transport
People wait under umbrellas at a bus stop in Brazil
  • Cities
  • Electric Mobility
  • transportation
  • Integrated Transport

How "Complete Streets" Are Creating Safer, More Sustainable Cities in Brazil

  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Development
People cross the street in Belo Horizonte
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Development
Update

Celebrating 10 Years of Collaboration on Public Transportation from WRI and FedEx

  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
Avenue in Mexico City
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
Initiatives

TUMI E-Bus Mission

Transmilenio electric transit bus charging at an electric bus depot in Bogota, Colombia
Initiatives

A Fairer and More Sustainable Post-COVID World in Latin America

  • biking
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • infrastructure
  • sanitation
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
  • transportation
  • Freshwater
Silhouette of a person with a bicycle overlooking Belo Horizonte's skyline. Photo by Mariana Gil/WRI.
  • biking
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • infrastructure
  • sanitation
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
  • transportation
  • Freshwater

Cities Are Taxing Ride-Hailing Services Like Uber and Lyft. Is This a Good Thing?

  • Urban Mobility
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety
Traffic congestion in Washington, DC.
  • Urban Mobility
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety

In Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Breaking Car Addictions Starts in the Workplace

  • Urban Mobility
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • road safety
  • transportation
CAMG in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
  • Urban Mobility
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • road safety
  • transportation

Rio Olympics’ Legacy: Urban Mobility

  • Urban Mobility
  • public transit
  • transportation
Highway in Brazil
  • Urban Mobility
  • public transit
  • transportation
Research

A COP21 Surprise: Brazilian States Commit to Restore More than 3 Million Hectares of Degraded Land

  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • COP21
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • NDC
Mato Grosso forest
  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • COP21
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • NDC

WRI Helps Guide $4 Billion in Investment in Sustainable Urban Transport in Brazil

  • transportation
  • Urban Mobility
  • Top Outcome: 2015
People walking near Brazil public transportation
  • transportation
  • Urban Mobility
  • Top Outcome: 2015
Insights

What Do Top Emitters' Greenhouse Gas Targets Mean for Emissions? It’s Not Always Clear

  • International Climate Action
  • COP21
  • GHG emissions
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
Wind turbines
  • International Climate Action
  • COP21
  • GHG emissions
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
Sao Paulo’s Linha 4 demonstrates how cities can successfully finance transport projects through public-private partnerships, and serves as a model for other areas in Brazil to follow. (Photo: Mariana Gil/ WRI Brasil Sustainable Cities)
  • Finance
  • transportation
Insights

A Closer Look at Brazil’s New Climate Plan (INDC)

  • Climate
  • COP21
  • climate change
  • NDC
Brazil's INDC proposes achieving a 45 percent share of renewables in the energy mix by 2030. Photo by Lance Cheung/Flickr.
  • Climate
  • COP21
  • climate change
  • NDC