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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

WRI Statement on 2050 Climate Strategies of the United States, Canada and Mexico

  • Energy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • UNFCCC
  • Energy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • UNFCCC
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Germany Becomes First Country to Release a 2050 Emissions-Reduction Plan

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • UNFCCC
Wind turbines
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • UNFCCC

Mexico City’s Car Congestion Slows Economic Growth, Costs Businesses

  • public transit
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety
Motorized vehicles are responsible for nearly half of Mexico City's greenhouse gas emissions. Photo by Curt Carnemark / World Bank
  • public transit
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety
Insights
On some sunny days, solar power meets 35 percent of Germany's electricity needs. Photo by Till Westermayer/Flickr
  • renewable energy

RELEASE: New Design Guidelines Help Cities Save Lives On Urban Bus Corridors

  • road safety
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety
  • road safety
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety

A Safe City is a Just City

  • Cities
  • road safety
  • transportation
  • Urban Development
  • Health & Road Safety
In Rio de Janeiro, proximity to transport is key to ensuring that residents have access to jobs and opportunities within the city. Photo Credit: EMBARQ-Brazil
  • Cities
  • road safety
  • transportation
  • Urban Development
  • Health & Road Safety
Insights

4 Things Germany and Partners Can Do to Strengthen the International Renewable Energy Club

  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
  • UNFCCC
The "renewable energy club" recently initiated by the German government could provide a boost to the national and global expansion of renewable energy. Photo credit: Till Westermayer, Flickr
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
  • UNFCCC
Data

Overview of Delivering on the Clean Energy Economy

  • climate finance
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • climate finance
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
Initiatives

Clean Energy

Wind turbines

Boom and Bus: How Public Transport Can Curb Road Deaths as Our Cities Grow

  • public transit
  • road safety
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety
BRT system in Curitiba, Brazil. Photo credit: Guilherme Mendes Thomaz, Flickr
  • public transit
  • road safety
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety

The World Needs More Energiewende

  • Energy
  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy
  • Energy
  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy
Insights

Global Signs of Leadership on Clean Energy

  • Energy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy
  • Energy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy
Insights

U.S. Energy Policy Should Take A Lesson From Germany’s Energiewende

  • Energy
  • climate change
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
An offshore wind turbine off Germany's coast
  • Energy
  • climate change
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
Insights

5 Achievements from Germany’s “Energiewende”

  • climate change
  • Energy
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
  • climate change
  • Energy
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy

3 Big Opportunities to Transform Transportation

  • Cities
  • low carbon development
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety
  • Cities
  • low carbon development
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety