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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
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To Make Good on Sustainable Food Commitments, Countries Must Do 4 Things

  • Food
  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • agriculture
  • Climate
A woman harvests sweet potatoes
  • Food
  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • agriculture
  • Climate
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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
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The Inequity of Water: While Scarcity Is Felt Locally, its Causes Are Increasingly Global

  • Freshwater
  • agriculture
  • Water Security
  • food security
Amhara farmers carrying corn crop near Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve.
  • Freshwater
  • agriculture
  • Water Security
  • food security

State of the US Clean Energy Transition: Recent Progress, and What Comes Next

  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • renewable energy
  • electric grid
  • electric mobility
  • Electric Mobility
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric Vehicles
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Clean Power
  • Climate
Technician installing solar panels on roof.
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • renewable energy
  • electric grid
  • electric mobility
  • Electric Mobility
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric Vehicles
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Clean Power
  • Climate
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4 Climate Stories that Will Define 2024

  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
  • International Climate Action
  • climate policy
  • Food
  • Clean Energy
  • electric grid
  • Cities
  • stories to watch
A family covers their heads with cloth for sun protection while walking near the Ganges river during a heatwave.
  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
  • International Climate Action
  • climate policy
  • Food
  • Clean Energy
  • electric grid
  • Cities
  • stories to watch
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India’s Shift to Low-carbon Construction Must Not Leave Workers Behind

  • Buildings
  • low carbon development
  • GHG emissions
  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
Construction workers in colorful clothes stand near a cement mixer.
  • Buildings
  • low carbon development
  • GHG emissions
  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
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6 Major Food Breakthroughs at COP28 — and What Comes Next

  • Food
  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • International Climate Action
  • COP28
Farmers harvesting rice in a large field in India.
  • Food
  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • International Climate Action
  • COP28
Technical Perspectives

How Advance Market Commitments and Contracts for Difference Can Help Create a Market for Green Industrial Products

  • Climate
  • industry
  • climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • Paying for Paris
Bundles of steel bars stacked on shelves on a large storeroom floor.
  • Climate
  • industry
  • climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • Paying for Paris
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How to Manage the Global Land Squeeze? Produce, Protect, Reduce, Restore

  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • land use
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • nature-based solutions
  • conservation
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
An aerial view of a section of rain forest cleared for agriculture.
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • land use
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • nature-based solutions
  • conservation
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
Technical Perspectives

New US Trade Policies Can Incentivize Clean Industrial Manufacturing

  • climate policy
  • industry
  • low carbon development
A large ship with stacks of cargo containers sails across the sea.
  • climate policy
  • industry
  • low carbon development
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In India, New Solar Parks Can Either Uproot or Uplift Landless Workers

  • renewable energy
  • climate change
  • low carbon development
Agricultural workers tend crops outside the Pavagada solar park fence.
  • renewable energy
  • climate change
  • low carbon development
Technical Perspectives

What does ‘green’ procurement mean? Initiatives and standards for cement and steel.

  • Climate
  • infrastructure
  • industry
  • low carbon development
  • Paying for Paris
Workers in hard hats installing energy
  • Climate
  • infrastructure
  • industry
  • low carbon development
  • Paying for Paris
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The Global Benefits of Reducing Food Loss and Waste, and How to Do It

  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • Climate
Boxes of canned goods and other products discarded at a supermarket.
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • Climate
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3 Reasons Why Countries Must Take Faster Action to Reduce Short-lived Climate Pollutants

  • pollution
  • net-zero emissions
  • GHG emissions
  • food security
  • health
  • NDC
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • COP28
Man wearing a face mask rides a bicycle on a foggy day.
  • pollution
  • net-zero emissions
  • GHG emissions
  • food security
  • health
  • NDC
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • COP28
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A man carries a cart in Bakhmut, Ukraine during the Russian invasion
  • Food
  • food security
  • land use
Technical Perspectives

How Multilateral Development Banks Can Use Policy-Based Financing to Support Climate-Resilient Economies

  • multilateral development banks
  • Climate
  • low carbon development
Women scoop up dirty water from a polluted lake in Chad.
  • multilateral development banks
  • Climate
  • low carbon development