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    Finance
    Insights
    April 17, 2024

    Development Banks Are Starting to Spark Climate Action. Will They Complete the Task?

    • Climate
    • Finance
    • adaptation finance
    • development
    • low carbon development
    • multilateral development banks
    Setting up a solar-powered water pump to pump groundwater in Ethiopia.
    • Climate
    • Finance
    • adaptation finance
    • development
    • low carbon development
    • multilateral development banks
    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    April 16, 2024

    A New Program Will Bring Clean Energy to Disadvantaged Neighborhoods in the US

    • Energy
    • Clean Energy
    • renewable energy
    • Energy Access
    Rooftop solar on a Brooklyn rowhome
    • Energy
    • Clean Energy
    • renewable energy
    • Energy Access
    Cities
    Africa
    Insights
    March 25, 2024

    Solar-Powered Battery Swap Stations Could Speed Rwanda’s Shift to Electric ‘Motos’

    • renewable energy
    • electric grid
    • Cities
    • Energy Access
    People on motorcycles drive through the busy streets of Kigali, Rwanda.
    • renewable energy
    • electric grid
    • Cities
    • Energy Access
    Energy
    Africa
    Update
    March 7, 2024

    Leveraging Energy Access Explorer to Advance Kenya’s Clean Cooking Agenda

    • Energy
    • Energy Access
    • energy efficiency
    Nairobi, Kenya skyline
    • Energy
    • Energy Access
    • energy efficiency
    Energy
    Africa
    Insights
    February 2, 2024

    A New Solution to Power Africa: Productive Use of Renewable Energy

    • Energy
    • Energy Access
    • renewable energy
    Malawi farmer tends her field, with solar water pumps in the background
    • Energy
    • Energy Access
    • renewable energy
    Energy
    Africa
    Insights
    October 31, 2023

    Distributed Solar Keeps Hospital Operational During Kenya’s Longest Power Blackout

    • Energy
    • Energy Access
    • renewable energy
    Installation of solar panels to a building roof in Africa
    • Energy
    • Energy Access
    • renewable energy
    Energy
    Insights
    August 30, 2023

    6 Conversations We Need to Have on the Energy Transition

    • renewable energy
    • Climate
    • Clean Energy
    • Energy Access
    • international climate policy
    Wind turbines on top of a mountain overlooking the sea in Costa Rica.
    • renewable energy
    • Climate
    • Clean Energy
    • Energy Access
    • international climate policy
    Energy
    Europe
    Insights
    July 12, 2023

    These 8 Countries Are Scaling Up Renewable Energy the Fastest

    • renewable energy
    • energy efficiency
    • Energy Access
    • Clean Energy
    Construction workers on a rooftop with wind turbines.
    • renewable energy
    • energy efficiency
    • Energy Access
    • Clean Energy
    Freshwater
    Update
    June 27, 2023

    WRI Joins the Millennium Water Alliance

    • Freshwater
    • Water Security
    • development
    Lake Tana, Ethiopia
    • Freshwater
    • Water Security
    • development
    Finance
    Asia
    Technical Perspectives
    April 11, 2023

    What the World Bank’s Country Climate and Development Reports Tell Us About the Debt-Climate Nexus in Low-income Countries

    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • development
    Boat on river in front of palm trees.
    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • development
    Cities
    Insights
    February 15, 2023

    5 Priorities for Urban Climate Action in 2023 and Beyond

    • transportation
    • electric mobility
    • Freshwater
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • nature-based solutions
    • poverty
    • human rights
    A new electric bus in New Delhi, India
    • transportation
    • electric mobility
    • Freshwater
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • nature-based solutions
    • poverty
    • human rights
    Freshwater
    Africa
    Update
    January 27, 2023

    Restoring a Degraded Ethiopian Watershed for Water and Livelihood Security

    • food security
    • agriculture
    • poverty
    • Climate Equity
    • Freshwater
    This view of the degraded Minzir 01 watershed shows evident signs of gully formation and low stream flow.
    • food security
    • agriculture
    • poverty
    • Climate Equity
    • Freshwater
    Cities
    Asia
    Insights
    January 3, 2023

    An Innovative Jobs Program in Odisha, India Helped Informal Workers Through COVID-19 and Beyond

    • poverty
    • coronavirus
    • Climate Resilience
    • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
    Workers build steps in Odisha, India
    • poverty
    • coronavirus
    • Climate Resilience
    • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
    Cities
    Latin America
    Update
    October 18, 2022

    Bogotá and Cali Connect Local Action to National Ambition to Transform the Buildings Sector

    • Buildings
    • net-zero emissions
    • development
    • Cities
    Aerial view of Bogota, Colombia
    • Buildings
    • net-zero emissions
    • development
    • Cities
    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    September 30, 2022

    How Distributed Energy Resources Can Lower Power Bills, Raise Revenue in US Communities

    • renewable energy
    • Clean Energy
    • Energy Access
    Solar panels on a community of homes in Austin, TX
    • renewable energy
    • Clean Energy
    • Energy Access

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