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Climate-friendly Food Is Easier Than We Think

  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • Paris Agreement
  • Food
  • greenhouse gases
  • COP26
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • Paris Agreement
  • Food
  • greenhouse gases
  • COP26
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The Costs and Benefits Appraisal Tool for Transit Buses

  • public transit
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • transportation
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How to Build a Circular Economy

  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • waste
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • natural resources
  • Climate
  • Food Loss and Waste
Two recycling facility workers next to bales of aluminum cans. Photo by Aaron Minnick | WRI.
  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • waste
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • natural resources
  • Climate
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World Greenhouse Gas Emissions: 2016

  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • greenhouse gases
  • UNFCCC
  • climate change
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  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • greenhouse gases
  • UNFCCC

5 Ways the US Government Can Kickstart a CarbonShot to Remove Carbon from the Atmosphere

  • carbon removal
  • agriculture
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • U.S. policy
carbon engineering direct air capture facility
  • carbon removal
  • agriculture
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • U.S. policy
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2020 Could Be the Year Carbon Removal Takes Off

  • carbon removal
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
Hellisheiði Geothermal Power Plant in Iceland
  • carbon removal
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
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This Month in Climate Science, December 2019: Pre-term Births, Fewer Fishermen and Accelerated Arctic Melt

  • this month in climate science
  • climate science
  • biodiversity
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • health
  • Ocean
  • Freshwater
Two fishermen offloading lobster from their boat onto a floating dock in Maine.
  • this month in climate science
  • climate science
  • biodiversity
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • health
  • Ocean
  • Freshwater

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
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Buildings Are an Ideal but Overlooked Climate Solution

  • Cities
  • Buildings
  • Climate
  • energy efficiency
  • greenhouse gases
Installing a green roof. Zero carbon buildings are viable, flexible and affordable right now. Photo by Ziggy Liloia/Flickr
  • Cities
  • Buildings
  • Climate
  • energy efficiency
  • greenhouse gases

As India Revises State Climate Plans, Who Should Have a Voice?

  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate policy
  • Climate Equity
  • public participation
Kids carrying water in the Indian countryside. Photo by Mr. Fink/Flickr
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate policy
  • Climate Equity
  • public participation
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Many Companies Inaccurately Estimate the Climate Benefits of Their Products

  • Business
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
Ball bearings are one of the many products affected by unverifiable claims of avoided emissions. Flickr/jfeathersmith
  • Business
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases

12 Countries Sign Historic Agreement Guaranteeing Environmental Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Equity & Governance
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • public participation
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • public participation
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Good Climate Policy News from California

  • U.S. Climate
  • climate policy
  • greenhouse gases
Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, California
  • U.S. Climate
  • climate policy
  • greenhouse gases
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  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Cities
  • environmental democracy
  • public participation

4 Environmental Activists Are Murdered Every Week. A New Agreement Could Help in Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Equity & Governance
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • environmental democracy
  • human rights
  • environmental justice
  • public participation
Rally in a Colombian town
  • Equity & Governance
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • environmental democracy
  • human rights
  • environmental justice
  • public participation
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Billion-Dollar Disasters to Disappearing Ice: 2017 Was a Year of Record-Breaking Climate Events

  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • extreme weather
  • greenhouse gases
  • climate impacts
  • sea level rise
Hurricane Maria
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • extreme weather
  • greenhouse gases
  • climate impacts
  • sea level rise