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STATEMENT: Global Commission on Adaptation COVID-19 Call to Action

  • Climate Resilience
  • coronavirus
  • Climate Resilience
  • coronavirus

ADVISORY: Embargoed Press Call on Global Forest Watch 2019 Tree Cover Loss Data

  • fires
  • deforestation
  • forest monitoring
  • global forest watch
  • fires
  • deforestation
  • forest monitoring
  • global forest watch
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The Most Successful Air Pollution Treaty You’ve Never Heard Of

  • Equity & Governance
  • Cities
  • Air Quality
  • climate change
Scooter-riders with face masks in Hanoi, Vietnam
  • Equity & Governance
  • Cities
  • Air Quality
  • climate change

To Fix City Slums, Don't Just Knock Them Down: Involve Residents in Upgrading Efforts

  • Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • housing
  • poverty
  • public participation
View of one of the many informal settlements the city of Surabaya, Indonesia has upgraded since the 1960s with input and participation from residents. Photo by Peter Edelman.
  • Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • housing
  • poverty
  • public participation
News

RELEASE: Palm Oil Industry to Jointly Develop Radar Monitoring Technology to Detect Deforestation

  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
  • commodities
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
  • commodities
Insights
Brazil fires
  • Forests
  • fires
  • forest monitoring
Insights

Deforestation Threatens the Mekong, but New Trees Are Growing in Surprising Places

  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Forests
Communities like this one in Vietnam are beginning to restore their trees, especially on farms and in villages. Photo by Terry Sunderland/CIFOR.
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Forests
Outcomes

Governments, Companies and NGOs Adopt Shared Mobility Principles

  • Top Outcome: 2018
  • Health & Road Safety
Shared bikes in Beijing. Photo by Kentaro IEMOTO/Flickr
  • Top Outcome: 2018
  • Health & Road Safety
Outcomes
A street in Bangalore, India. Photo by Ryan ruffin_ready/Flickr
  • Top Outcome: 2018

Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America Create Safer, More Sustainable Streets

  • Top Outcome: 2018
  • Health & Road Safety
Rua Completa Joel Carlos Borges. Photo by Pedro Mascaro/WRI Brasil
  • Top Outcome: 2018
  • Health & Road Safety
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
Outcomes

Forest Resilience Bond Helps Reduce Wildfire Risk in California

  • Freshwater
  • Top Outcome: 2018
US Forest Service, partners and local community members visit a restoration site in the North Yuba River Watershed in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. Photo by Leah Schleifer/WRI
  • Freshwater
  • Top Outcome: 2018
Outcomes
Members of a community group in Riau, Indonesia, traveling by boat use WRI’s Forest Watcher app to monitor deforestation. Photo by Jikalihari/WRI
  • Top Outcome: 2018
Outcomes
A Tesco grocery store in South West England. Photo by Roger A Smith/Geograph
  • Top Outcome: 2018
Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. Photo by Pedro Szekely/Wikimedia Commons
  • Energy
  • Top Outcome: 2018
Outcomes

Indonesia and Democratic Republic of the Congo Accelerate Social and Community Forest Management

  • Top Outcome: 2018
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
A man in Ilanga Village, DRC, holds a map showing commercial concessions on community lands. Photo by Molly Bergen/WCS, WWF, WRI
  • Top Outcome: 2018
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance

4 Ways Cities Can Build More Climate-Resilient Neighborhoods

  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
community workshop in India
  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • Urban Development

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