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4 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2023

  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • stories to watch
People dressed in warm clothes on bicycles carrying reusable shopping bags.
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • stories to watch

Indigenous Forests Are Some of the Amazon’s Last Carbon Sinks

  • land rights
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • Equity & Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Man in a canoe in Ecuador's Amazon forest
  • land rights
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • Equity & Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Initiatives
Solar panels in park surrounded by skyscrapers

Improving Water Security Helps Reduce the Gender Gap in Mexico City

  • Forests
  • Gender
  • drought
  • infrastructure
  • water risk
A woman selling snacks from a cart in the middle of a busy plaza in Mexico City.
  • Forests
  • Gender
  • drought
  • infrastructure
  • water risk

2020-2021 Grand Prize Winner: Sustainable Food Production for a Resilient Rosario

  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Urban Transformations
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • agriculture
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Urban Transformations
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • agriculture

Rosario, Argentina Uses Urban Farming to Tackle Economic and Climate Crises

  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
  • Urban Transformations
  • Equity & Governance
  • agriculture
A man sits and plants new plants in his garden.
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
  • Urban Transformations
  • Equity & Governance
  • agriculture

In Monterrey, Mexico, a University’s Tragedy Sparks a Citywide Turnaround

  • Cities
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Urban Transformations
  • Equity & Governance
Monterrey, Mexico residents enjoying the open streets of the monthly Callejero event.
  • Cities
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Urban Transformations
  • Equity & Governance

Mexico: Policymaking to Ensure Energy Justice in Renewables Development

  • JT Sector: Renewables
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
Windmills
  • JT Sector: Renewables
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
News
  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Development
  • Equity & Governance
Initiatives
Bogota at night

RELEASE: New Study Reveals Mining in the Amazon Threatens 20% of Indigenous Lands

  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Brazil nut producer, Peru
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

COMUNICADO: Nuevo estudio revela que la minería en el Amazonas amenaza al 20 % de las tierras indígenas

  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Brazil nut producer, Peru
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

ADVISORY: Embargoed WRI Press Call: Mining Threatens Indigenous Communities Across the Amazon

  • Equity & Governance
  • deforestation
  • environmental justice
  • pollution
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
  • deforestation
  • environmental justice
  • pollution
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

COVID-19, Rising Gold Prices and Illegal Mining Threaten Indigenous Lands in the Amazon

  • coronavirus
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
Mining for gold in South America
  • coronavirus
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset