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How Are Banks Doing on Sustainable Finance Commitments? Not Good Enough

  • Finance
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
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  • Finance
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
Insights

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
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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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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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
Outcomes

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
Insights

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
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Why Should Governments Refill the Green Climate Fund's Coffers?

  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
A new solar project funded by the GCF will provide energy to Central Mongolia.
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
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What Investors Want from Sustainability Data

  • Finance
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
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  • Finance
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
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7 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2019

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • Business
  • biking
  • circular economy
  • stories to watch
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • Health & Road Safety
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  • Finance
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • Business
  • biking
  • circular economy
  • stories to watch
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • Health & Road Safety
Technical Perspectives
Leaving Katowice, climate finance advocates find a mixed bag. Flickr/Piotr Drabik
  • COP24
  • Finance
  • climate finance
News

STATEMENT: WRI Welcomes New UN Biennial Assessment of Climate Finance

  • COP24
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • COP24
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • Green Climate Fund
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Will China Seize the Biggest Green Opportunity of the Coming Decade?

  • National Climate Action
  • Finance
The Belt and Road could finance much-needed renewable energy.
  • National Climate Action
  • Finance
Data

47% of World's Thermal Power Capacity is in Highly Water-Stressed Areas

  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • power plants
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • power plants
  • Freshwater
  • water risk