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4 Shifts Needed to Create a Carbon-free Power System

  • GHG emissions
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • power plants
  • renewable energy
Wind turbines and solar power panels
  • GHG emissions
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • power plants
  • renewable energy
Update
A river flows through Masai Mara Nature Reserve in Kenya
  • Business
  • Freshwater
  • power plants
Technical Perspectives
A power plant on a sea shore with smoke emerging from the towers.
  • climate change
  • power plants
  • Aqueduct
Insights

How Water Challenges Threaten India’s Energy Security

  • water risk
  • renewable energy
  • power plants
  • drought
  • floods
  • Aqueduct
Power plant in dry land
  • water risk
  • renewable energy
  • power plants
  • drought
  • floods
  • Aqueduct
Insights

What Is Carbon Lock-in and How Can We Avoid It?

  • GHG emissions
  • fossil fuels
  • infrastructure
  • power plants
  • National Climate Action
  • COP26
A power plant with wind mills and a smoke column in the center.
  • GHG emissions
  • fossil fuels
  • infrastructure
  • power plants
  • National Climate Action
  • COP26

A Fairer and More Sustainable Post-COVID World in Latin America

  • biking
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • infrastructure
  • sanitation
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
  • transportation
  • Freshwater
Silhouette of a person with a bicycle overlooking Belo Horizonte's skyline. Photo by Mariana Gil/WRI.
  • biking
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • infrastructure
  • sanitation
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
  • transportation
  • Freshwater
Insights

We're Underestimating How Many People Lack Sanitation Services—and Ignoring the Best Solution for Many Cities

  • Towards a More Equal City
  • sanitation
  • waste
  • Cities
  • world resources report
Polluter waterways carry impacts of poor sanitation citywide. Photo by SusanA Secretariat/Flickr
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • sanitation
  • waste
  • Cities
  • world resources report

RELEASE: Safe, Affordable Sanitation a Pipe Dream for Too Many Households in Global South

  • Towards a More Equal City
  • sanitation
  • waste
  • Cities
  • health
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • sanitation
  • waste
  • Cities
  • health
Insights

China Faces 4 Big Risks if it Continues Building More Coal Plants

  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • power plants
  • renewable energy
  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • power plants
  • renewable energy

Pennsylvania is Joining RGGI. Here’s Why That Matters

  • Energy
  • electric grid
  • GHG emissions
  • power plants
Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania
  • Energy
  • electric grid
  • GHG emissions
  • power plants
Insights
Heidelberg, Germany
  • climate science
  • Climate
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
Initiatives

Power Explorer

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Insights

Putting the Poor First to Improve Sanitation in Kampala

  • Towards a More Equal City
  • sanitation
  • world resources report
Sanitation entrepreneur in Kampala. Photo: Water for People.
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • sanitation
  • world resources report
Research
  • power plants
  • water risk
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset