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Low-Carbon Cities Are a $24 Trillion Opportunity

  • Cities
  • Economics
  • climate change
  • low carbon development
Riding the bus in Seattle. Increasing the share of passengers taking mass transit is worth more than $10 trillion. Flickr/Brian Glanz.
  • Cities
  • Economics
  • climate change
  • low carbon development
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ADVISORY: Press Call on How National Governments Can Capture Major Economic Benefits by Investing in Zero-Carbon Cities

  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • energy efficiency
  • low carbon development
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • energy efficiency
  • low carbon development
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Climate Disasters Are Getting Worse. Here's How Developing Countries Are Insuring Against Them

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • extreme weather
  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
  • climate finance
  • hurricanes
A child sits on water jugs provided after Cyclone Idai.
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • extreme weather
  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
  • climate finance
  • hurricanes
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New Climate Economy

Most of women covered by NHLP now have access to fresh vegetables for their meals and can even supply their surplus to be sold in the local market.
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Regional Integration Could Be Key to China’s Climate Action

  • Climate
  • climate policy
  • Economics
  • low carbon development
Chongqing, a city in China’s Yangtze River Delta
  • Climate
  • climate policy
  • Economics
  • low carbon development
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Growing Momentum for Just Transition: 5 Success Stories and New Commitments to Tackle Inequality Through Climate Action

  • sustainable development goals
  • Sustainable Development Goal 10
  • Climate Equity
  • development
  • climate change
  • low carbon development
An indigenous community meeting in Peru.
  • sustainable development goals
  • Sustainable Development Goal 10
  • Climate Equity
  • development
  • climate change
  • low carbon development
Technical Perspectives

INSIDER: The Green Climate Fund’s Proposed Approach to Costs: Not Fit for Adaptation

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
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Mainstreaming Adaptation

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Multilateral Development Bank Climate Finance in 2018: The Good, the Bad and the Urgent

  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • multilateral development banks
Solar panel for home use in Sri Lanka. Flickr/World Bank Photo Collection
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • multilateral development banks
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Conservation Finance Takes Off as the Netherlands Issues One of the Largest Green Bonds Ever

  • adaptation finance
  • green bonds
  • Finance
  • Freshwater
A floodplain restored through the Room for the River program. Image: Dutch Embassy
  • adaptation finance
  • green bonds
  • Finance
  • Freshwater
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Energy Access Explorer

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A 5-Step Plan to Protect and Restore Indonesia's Forests

  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • low carbon development
Forest on the Mamberamo River in Papua.
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • low carbon development
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How the International Monetary Fund Is Waking Up to the Financial Risks of the Climate Crisis

  • Economics
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • fossil fuels
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  • Economics
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • fossil fuels
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Goldman Prize Winner Alfred Brownell Stopped Palm Oil Companies from Destroying Liberian Forests

  • Environmental Rights
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • environmental justice
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Alfred Brownell on a street in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Environmental Rights
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • environmental justice
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
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WRI Helps Set Paris Agreement in Motion

  • Finance
  • Economics
  • Top Outcome: 2018
Negotiators at COP24 in Katowice, Poland adopted a robust Paris Rulebook to set the agreement in motion. Photo by UNclimatechange/Flickr
  • Finance
  • Economics
  • Top Outcome: 2018
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How Much Should Countries Contribute to the Green Climate Fund's Replenishment?

  • adaptation finance
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
Thermo-solar power plant in Morocco. Flickr/World Bank Photo Collection
  • adaptation finance
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund