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    Climate
    Insights
    March 7, 2024

    What Are Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Corporate Climate Disclosures? 6 Questions, Answered

    • Climate
    • GHG emissions
    • GHG Protocol
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    Workers standing in front of shipping containers.
    • Climate
    • GHG emissions
    • GHG Protocol
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    Cities
    Insights
    February 15, 2023

    5 Priorities for Urban Climate Action in 2023 and Beyond

    • transportation
    • electric mobility
    • Freshwater
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • nature-based solutions
    • poverty
    • human rights
    A new electric bus in New Delhi, India
    • transportation
    • electric mobility
    • Freshwater
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • nature-based solutions
    • poverty
    • human rights
    Climate
    Update
    August 8, 2022

    UN Human Rights Council Underscores the Need for Loss and Damage Action Ahead of COP27

    • United Nations
    • human rights
    • Climate Governance
    • Climate
    UN Geneva meeting in session
    • United Nations
    • human rights
    • Climate Governance
    • Climate
    North America
    Update
    June 24, 2022

    Trends Show Companies Are Ready for Scope 3 Reporting with US Climate Disclosure Rule

    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • GHG Protocol
    • climate policy
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • GHG Protocol
    • climate policy
    Climate
    North America
    Technical Perspectives
    June 16, 2022

    The Draft US Securities and Exchange Commission Climate Disclosure Rule: Eight Myths Debunked

    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • GHG Protocol
    • science based targets
    • climate policy
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • GHG Protocol
    • science based targets
    • climate policy
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    August 18, 2021

    3 Benefits of Women’s Collective Land Rights

    • Gender
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • land rights
    • human rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    An all-women community forest user group in Nepal.
    • Gender
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • land rights
    • human rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Climate
    Insights
    April 6, 2021

    A Just Transition to a Zero-carbon World Is Possible. Here’s How.

    • climate change
    • fossil fuels
    • human rights
    • renewable energy
    • COP26
    two men installing solar panels
    • climate change
    • fossil fuels
    • human rights
    • renewable energy
    • COP26
    Ocean
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    14 World Leaders Commit to a Sustainable Ocean Economy

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    A seaweed farmer in Nusa Penida, Indonesia. Photo by pradeep_kmpk14/iStock
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Climate
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Important Countries Identify Opportunities for Climate Action

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    A factory worker assembles solar panels in Dezhou, China. Photo by Cultura Creative RF/Alamy
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Cities
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Cities Prioritize Public Transportation and Cycling in Response to COVID-19

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Health & Road Safety
    Bikers are protected by road barriers in India. Photo by Rajeev Malagi/WRI India.
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Health & Road Safety
    Food
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Nearly 200 Food Suppliers Commit to Cut Food Loss and Waste in Half

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    A chef composts vegetable scraps. Photo by stockstudioX/iStock
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Equity & Governance
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    12 Governments in Latin America and the Caribbean Ratify Escazú Agreement

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Climate activist in Mexico City, Mexico. Photo by Diego Rodriguez via 350.org/Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Cities
    Latin America
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Mexico Adds Fundamental Right to Mobility to Its Constitution

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Urban Mobility
    Bikers, skateboarders and cars coexist in Merida, Mexico. Photo by Megapress/Alamy
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Urban Mobility
    Energy
    Asia
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Indonesia and the Philippines Take Action to Accelerate Clean Energy Transition

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Government-installed solar panels in the village of Weepatando in Sumba island, Indonesia. Photo by Asian Development Bank/Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Cities
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Countries and Cities Embrace a New UN Decade for Road Safety

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Health & Road Safety
    A woman paints pedestrian lanes on a road in São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Victor Moriyama/WRI Brasil
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Health & Road Safety
    Freshwater
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    World Bank Unlocks $2 Billion for Integrated Green and Gray Infrastructure

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Coastal town in Silhouette, Seychelles. Photo by Ian Badenhorst/Unsplash
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Cities
    Asia
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    India’s 15th Finance Commission Supports Air Quality and Forest Protection

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    A forest in West Bengali, India. Photo by Suprakash Shown/Unsplash
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    February 11, 2021

    5 Lessons for Securing Women’s Collective Land Rights

    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • Gender
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Community forest
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • Gender
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    News
    January 22, 2021

    STATEMENT: Escazú Agreement Moves A Big Step Closer to Making the World Safer for Environmental Defenders

    • human rights
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    October 22, 2020

    Pollution Is a Racial Justice Issue. Let’s Fight it that Way.

    • human rights
    • pollution
    Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate
    • human rights
    • pollution

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