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The Future of Extreme Heat in Cities: What We Know — and What We Don’t

  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Development
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate impacts
  • climate science
  • COP28
Brick layers during in a heatwave in New Delhi, India
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Development
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate impacts
  • climate science
  • COP28
Technical Perspectives
Several trains carrying freight gather on tracks
  • Climate
  • transportation
  • public transit

Ways the US Can Electrify Its Public Fleets, from City Buses to Garbage Trucks

  • electric mobility
  • Clean Energy
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Air Quality
A blue and yellow city bus with the words "clean energy bus" on the side driving in downtown New York.
  • electric mobility
  • Clean Energy
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Air Quality
Update

Celebrating 10 Years of Collaboration on Public Transportation from WRI and FedEx

  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
Avenue in Mexico City
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
Initiatives

TUMI E-Bus Mission

Transmilenio electric transit bus charging at an electric bus depot in Bogota, Colombia
Initiatives
Ariel shot of a city with lots of trees.

5 Big Ideas to Address the Climate Crisis and Inequality in Cities

  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Climate Resilience
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • Urban Development
  • COP26
People gather in the middle of a Monterrey street during sunset
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Climate Resilience
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • Urban Development
  • COP26

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

Are We Ready for Autonomous Vehicles? The Uncertain Road Ahead

  • public transit
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety
self-driving car
  • public transit
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety

Rolling Back the Clean Power Plan Is a Losing Proposition for America

  • Energy
  • U.S. policy
  • fossil fuels
  • Economics
  • power plants
  • renewable energy
Installing solar panels
  • Energy
  • U.S. policy
  • fossil fuels
  • Economics
  • power plants
  • renewable energy

Former Energy CEO David Crane Envisions a Future without Fossils

  • Energy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • fossil fuels
  • power plants
  • renewable energy
Coal-fired power plant in Ohio
  • Energy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • fossil fuels
  • power plants
  • renewable energy

RELEASE: Analysis Shows Illinois Can Comply with Clean Power Plan Requirements, But Must Reduce Existing Barriers by Passing the Clean Jobs Bill

  • fossil fuels
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • power plants
  • renewable energy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • power plants
  • renewable energy

3 Cities Taking Urban Forestry to the Next Level

  • Cities
  • Air Quality
  • Forests
  • Urban Development
Cherry blossoms in Washington, DC park
  • Cities
  • Air Quality
  • Forests
  • Urban Development

DC’s Metro Closure Shows Why Creating Trust in Public Transit Matters

  • public transit
  • health
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • health
  • transportation

4 Reasons States and Utilities Should Continue Reducing Power Emissions, Despite Clean Power Plan Stay

  • U.S. Climate
  • climate change
  • U.S. policy
  • power plants
solar panels
  • U.S. Climate
  • climate change
  • U.S. policy
  • power plants

Despite Stay, America’s Economy and Climate Need the Clean Power Plan

  • International Climate Action
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • U.S. policy
  • power plants
Power plant
  • International Climate Action
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • U.S. policy
  • power plants
  • U.S. Climate
  • U.S. policy
  • power plants
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset