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Cities4Forests

Pond and trees in front of city skyline.
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Green Targets Tool

  • Business
  • Finance
  • climate change
Pile of money in different foreign currencies
  • Business
  • Finance
  • climate change

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

Bogotá and Cali Connect Local Action to National Ambition to Transform the Buildings Sector

  • Buildings
  • net-zero emissions
  • development
  • Cities
Aerial view of Bogota, Colombia
  • Buildings
  • net-zero emissions
  • development
  • Cities
Initiatives
Ariel shot of a city with lots of trees.
Initiatives

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.
Insights

Zero-emission Zones Are Helping Some Cities Fight Pollution

  • electric mobility
  • net-zero emissions
  • Air Quality
  • transportation
  • Urban Mobility
A sign signals a Zero Emission Zone in Oxford, England.
  • electric mobility
  • net-zero emissions
  • Air Quality
  • transportation
  • Urban Mobility
Insights

Next-generation Climate Targets: A 5-Point Plan for NDCs

  • NDC
  • net-zero emissions
  • GHG emissions
  • climatewatch-pinned
Boy washing rooftop solar panel.
  • NDC
  • net-zero emissions
  • GHG emissions
  • climatewatch-pinned
Insights

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
Insights

Can “Biodiversity Credits” Boost Conservation?

  • biodiversity
  • Forests
  • Climate
  • Finance
A herd of elephants crosses the Luangwa River in Zambia
  • biodiversity
  • Forests
  • Climate
  • Finance

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
Update

France Shapes Budget to Increase Net-zero-aligned Public Finance

  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
  • net-zero emissions
  • long-term strategies
france windmills
  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
  • net-zero emissions
  • long-term strategies
Update

A Sustained Portfolio of Policies Have Transformed Denmark’s Power Sector

  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
  • net-zero emissions
  • long-term strategies
denmark people biking
  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
  • net-zero emissions
  • long-term strategies