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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

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

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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Cities Need a Systems-change Approach to Build Climate-resilient Communities

  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Climate Resilience
Looking down at city buildings, some with green roofs and the street below.
  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Climate Resilience

In Barranquilla, Colombia, Urban Parks Revitalize a Declining City

  • Cities
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Urban Transformations
Parque Sagrado Corazon in Barranquilla, Colombia
  • Cities
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Urban Transformations
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5 Cities Show How to Thrive in Turbulent Times

  • Urban Development
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
Children playing in a neighborhood park in Barranquilla, Colombia.
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities

After Inflation Reduction Act: 5 Ways to Hit the US Emissions Goal

  • Climate
  • Climate Governance
  • climate policy
  • U.S. policy
  • renewable energy
  • electric grid
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Transmission
A construction worker carries a solar panel across a house roof for installation
  • Climate
  • Climate Governance
  • climate policy
  • U.S. policy
  • renewable energy
  • electric grid
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Transmission
Initiatives
Windmills in front of mountains at sunset
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From Promises to Action: 6 Sustainability Stories to Watch in 2022

  • net-zero emissions
  • climate change
  • fossil fuels
  • National Climate Action
  • International Climate Action
  • adaptation finance
  • environmental justice
  • health
  • deforestation
  • electric mobility
  • electric grid
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • stories to watch
A solar farm in the forefront with a coal plant in the distance.
  • net-zero emissions
  • climate change
  • fossil fuels
  • National Climate Action
  • International Climate Action
  • adaptation finance
  • environmental justice
  • health
  • deforestation
  • electric mobility
  • electric grid
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • stories to watch

What’s Needed to Modernize America’s Electricity Grid?

  • Clean Energy
  • renewable energy
  • electric grid
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Transmission
LADWP Pine Tree Wind Project
  • Clean Energy
  • renewable energy
  • electric grid
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Transmission
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Can Cities Thrive in Turbulent Times? 3 Questions for Cities in 2022

  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Urban Transformations
Overhead view of a city
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Urban Transformations
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7 Major Transformations to Solve Urban Inequality

  • Urban Development
  • Urban Transformations
  • land use
  • data
  • infrastructure
  • Equity & Governance
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • COP26
An aerial view of a cluster of small homes next to luxury buildings, all surrounded by trees.
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Transformations
  • land use
  • data
  • infrastructure
  • Equity & Governance
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • COP26

Why the US Also Needs Carbon Pricing in the Reconciliation Bill

  • climate policy
  • electric grid
  • carbon pricing
  • renewable energy
Xcel Energy's Sherburne County (Sherco) Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant, near Becker, Minnesota
  • climate policy
  • electric grid
  • carbon pricing
  • renewable energy

6 Ways Large Energy Buyers  Can Transform the US Electrical Grid 

  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. Climate
  • electric grid
  • Business
  • corporate sustainability
  • COP26
Dillon Wind Power Project
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. Climate
  • electric grid
  • Business
  • corporate sustainability
  • COP26

US Infrastructure Bill Is Good, but Not Enough to Transform the Electricity Grid

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • electric grid
  • U.S. policy
Two people working on power lines
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • electric grid
  • U.S. policy
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Integrated Planning Helps Kenya Close its Energy Access Gap

  • Clean Energy
  • electric grid
  • renewable energy
  • low carbon development
  • Energy Access
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
Kenya village
  • Clean Energy
  • electric grid
  • renewable energy
  • low carbon development
  • Energy Access
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset