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Protect Wildlife, Save Oceans and Reduce Civic Unrest—With Data

  • Ocean
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • data
  • environmental democracy
  • low carbon development
Global Fishing Watch uses satellite data to track fishing vessels around the world in near-real time. Image by Global Fishing Watch
  • Ocean
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • data
  • environmental democracy
  • low carbon development
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Can Clean Distributed Energy Solutions Close Africa’s Access Gap?

  • Energy Access
  • Energy
  • Business
  • Economics
  • development
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
Solar speciality shop in Gulu, Uganda. Photo by James Anderson/Flickr.
  • Energy Access
  • Energy
  • Business
  • Economics
  • development
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
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7 Big Moments from Climate Week 2015

  • COP21
  • climate change
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
Pope Francis delivered environmental messages before the UN General Assembly and U.S. Congress. Photo by Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk
  • COP21
  • climate change
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals

WRI Calls SDGs "A Bold New Agenda For International Development"

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
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  • United Nations
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Now Comes the Hard Part: 4 Key Challenges to SDGs

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
The Sustainable Development Goals aim to eradicate poverty and inequalities and spur economic growth while respecting planetary boundaries. UN Photo/Cia Pak.
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
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The Sublime Connection: The Pope, Poverty and the Planet

  • COP21
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
Representatives from the New Climate Economy met for a dialogue with Vatican officials on May 20, 2015. Photo by L'Osservatore Romano.
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  • Climate
  • climate change
  • low carbon development
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What’s Food Loss and Waste Got to Do with Sustainable Development? A Lot, Actually.

  • agriculture
  • Food
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
Food worth $750 billion is lost or wasted every year. Photo by Garry Knight/Flickr
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  • Food
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • low carbon development
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Our Fraying Ecosystems

  • restoration
  • agriculture
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
Between 2001 and 2014, the world lost on average 18 million hectares of tree cover per year (an area twice the size of Portugal). Photo by bdodane/Flickr.
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  • agriculture
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
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Building a Brighter Future – Powered by Renewable Energy

  • Economics
  • Energy
  • energy efficiency
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
  • sustainable development goals
Barefoot solar engineers in Tinginaput, India. Photo by DFID/Flickr.
  • Economics
  • Energy
  • energy efficiency
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
  • sustainable development goals

Sustainable Development Goals: Setting a New Course for People and Planet

  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
The unveiling of the Sustainable Development Goals next week will be a milestone moment for our collective future. Photo by US Mission to the United Nations Agencies in Rome/Flickr
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  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
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Jakarta, Indonesia. Photo by Dino Adyansyah/Flickr.
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More Energy in the Sprint to Paris

  • Climate
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • UNFCCC
  • United Nations
Photo by The Climate Group/Flickr.
  • Climate
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • UNFCCC
  • United Nations

Colombia First South American Country to Release New Climate Plan Ahead of Paris

  • International Climate Action
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • UNFCCC
Colombia is the first South American country to submit its post-2020 climate action plan. Photo by Tijs Zwinkels/Flickr
  • International Climate Action
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • UNFCCC

Addis Ababa Agenda: Bold Sustainable Development Vision to Be Backed Up by Action

  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo by Henrik Berger Jørgensen/Flickr.
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  • United Nations
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Sustainable Development Goals: From Rhetoric to Reality

  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
Kenyan farmers plant rust-resistant wheat. Photo by Petr Kosina / CIMMYT
  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
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Carbon Pricing Gains Popularity with Governments, Businesses

  • Energy
  • Economics
  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • low carbon development
Photo by Uwe Hermann/Flickr.
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  • Economics
  • Climate
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G7 Leaders Signal 21st-Century Shift to a Zero-Carbon Economy

  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • low carbon development
The public sector plays an essential role in the mobilization of private sector finance needed to achieve the low carbon, climate-resilient transformation. Photo by Gurit/Flickr.
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • low carbon development

A New Way to Measure Environmental Rights Around the World

  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • public participation
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
Shipbreaking workers in Bangladesh handle asbestos and other dangerous materials. Photo by Adam Cohn/Flickr
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • public participation
  • low carbon development
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3 Steps to Build a Greener, Climate-Resilient India

  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • natural infrastructure
  • natural resources
  • renewable energy
  • low carbon development
  • Urban Development
Hyderabad, India. Photo by Kara Newhouse, Flickr
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • natural infrastructure
  • natural resources
  • renewable energy
  • low carbon development
  • Urban Development
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China’s Climate Action Is Well Underway

  • Energy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • UNFCCC
What steps are China taking to achieve pledges and provide leadership? (Shanghai, China) Photo by leniners/Flickr.
  • Energy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • UNFCCC