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How Improved Housing in Under-served Communities Can Strengthen Climate Resilience

  • housing
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • Climate
  • Climate Equity
A row of housing in Iloilo City, Phillippines.
  • housing
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • Climate
  • Climate Equity

For Vibrant US Cities, Invest in Multi-modal Transportation

  • transportation
  • Urban Mobility
  • electric mobility
  • Equity & Governance
  • U.S. Climate
  • U.S. policy
  • Climate
  • Health & Road Safety
Cyclist using the bike lane in a busy urban street.
  • transportation
  • Urban Mobility
  • electric mobility
  • Equity & Governance
  • U.S. Climate
  • U.S. policy
  • Climate
  • Health & Road Safety
Update

WRI and Partners Select 4 Winners for Digital Transport for Africa Innovation Challenge

  • transportation
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Development
  • electric mobility
  • transportation
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Development
  • electric mobility
Update
  • electric mobility
  • electric school bus series
Update
  • electric mobility
  • electric school bus series
Insights

5 Ways to Cut Oil and Gas Use Through Clean Transportation

  • Cities
  • biking
  • public transit
  • Climate
  • fossil fuels
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Health & Road Safety
A bike lane in NYC
  • Cities
  • biking
  • public transit
  • Climate
  • fossil fuels
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Health & Road Safety
Insights

3 Ways to Reimagine Public Transport for People and the Climate

  • public transit
  • Climate
  • Climate Equity
  • Air Quality
Belo Horizonte - MOVE
  • public transit
  • Climate
  • Climate Equity
  • Air Quality
News

RELEASE: Bike Lane Design Principles Show How to Build Safer, More Sustainable Streets

  • Cities
  • biking
  • Urban Mobility
  • Health & Road Safety
Cyclists using bike-share in New York City
  • Cities
  • biking
  • Urban Mobility
  • Health & Road Safety
Insights

4 Ways to Design Safe Streets for Cyclists

  • Urban Mobility
  • Cities
  • Health & Road Safety
Bike lanes in Barcelona, Spain
  • Urban Mobility
  • Cities
  • Health & Road Safety
Insights

Going Electric: How Ride-hailing Drivers Can Help Cities Speed Up EV Use

  • Cities
  • GHG emissions
  • transportation
  • electric mobility
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric Vehicles
  • Urban Mobility
A driver following GPS directions on a mounted smartphone, taken from the backseat of the car.
  • Cities
  • GHG emissions
  • transportation
  • electric mobility
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric Vehicles
  • Urban Mobility
Outcomes

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
Insights

6 Signs of Progress Since the Adoption of the Paris Agreement

  • Climate
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • COP25
  • National Climate Action
  • science based targets
  • Urban Mobility
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • fossil fuels
  • renewable energy
A dock filled with boats with the Eiffel Tower in the background.
  • Climate
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • COP25
  • National Climate Action
  • science based targets
  • Urban Mobility
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • fossil fuels
  • renewable energy
Insights

Dockless Bike Sharing Can Create Healthy, Resilient Urban Mobility

  • biking
  • coronavirus
  • Urban Mobility
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety
People riding bikes on a sidewalk in Beijing.
  • biking
  • coronavirus
  • Urban Mobility
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety
Outcomes

Governments, Companies and NGOs Adopt Shared Mobility Principles

  • Top Outcome: 2018
  • Health & Road Safety
Shared bikes in Beijing. Photo by Kentaro IEMOTO/Flickr
  • Top Outcome: 2018
  • Health & Road Safety

Stronger Than the Storm: 3 Lessons for Building Climate Resilience in Poor Urban Communities

  • Climate
  • Cities
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • extreme weather
  • climate impacts
Landslide in Rio de Janeiro
  • Climate
  • Cities
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • extreme weather
  • climate impacts
Insights

Measuring Climate Success with New Common Reporting Framework for Cities

  • International Climate Action
  • COP23
  • Cities
  • UNFCCC
Smog in New Delhi
  • International Climate Action
  • COP23
  • Cities
  • UNFCCC
Insights

Amid Tragedy, an Opportunity for Smart Recovery

  • Cities
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • Urban Development
Waiting for rescue after Hurricane Katrina
  • Cities
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • Urban Development
Insights

2050 is Now

  • International Climate Action
  • Climate
  • Cities
  • infrastructure
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
African farmer
  • International Climate Action
  • Climate
  • Cities
  • infrastructure
  • poverty
  • low carbon development