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After a Tumultuous 2024, What’s Next for Cities?

  • Climate
  • climate change
  • extreme weather
  • nature-based solutions
  • adaptation
  • health
  • COP16
  • COP29
  • housing
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
People walk through a debris-filled street after severe flooding in Valencia, Spain.
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • extreme weather
  • nature-based solutions
  • adaptation
  • health
  • COP16
  • COP29
  • housing
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility

The Urban20 Summit in Rio and the Importance of Subnational-National Collaboration

  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • transportation
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Mobility
Aerial view of a cable car in Rio
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • transportation
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Mobility
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Europe’s Cities Should Prepare for Hotter, More Hazardous Days Ahead

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • climate change
  • health
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
People stand near a fountain during a London heat wave.
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • climate change
  • health
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
Update

WRI and Partners Launch Zero Emissions and Resilient Buildings (ZERB) Accelerator at COP29

  • Buildings
  • Climate Resilience
  • GHG emissions
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Cities
  • COP29
View of skyscrapers and trees in a downtown area.
  • Buildings
  • Climate Resilience
  • GHG emissions
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Cities
  • COP29
News
  • Climate
  • NDC
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
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Countries Have Been Overlooking Their Biggest Climate Allies: Local and Regional Governments

  • Cities
  • National Climate Action
  • NDC
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
Families sit and play on a grassy hill at a park overlooking a city.
  • Cities
  • National Climate Action
  • NDC
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
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Global Climate Pledges: A Progress Report

  • NDC
  • COP29
  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • National Climate Action
  • transportation
  • pollution
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • climatewatch-pinned
Workers repair a damaged wind turbine blade
  • NDC
  • COP29
  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • National Climate Action
  • transportation
  • pollution
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • climatewatch-pinned
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Accelerating Clean Energy in India

  • Clean Energy
  • low carbon development
  • Buildings
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
Speaker at WRI India's Accelerating Clean Energy event
  • Clean Energy
  • low carbon development
  • Buildings
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate

A Call to Decarbonize Mexico’s Buildings and Construction Sector

  • energy efficiency
  • Buildings
  • low carbon development
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
Participants in the"Roadmap for the Decarbonization of the Building Sector” workshop in Mexico City
  • energy efficiency
  • Buildings
  • low carbon development
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
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What Happens When Extreme Heat and Air Pollution Collide

  • Air Quality
  • pollution
  • health
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
A group looks over a hazy Mexico City, Mexico, from the top of Cerro de la Estrella in April 2021. Days earlier, the city registered an ozone concentration of 160 parts per billion.
  • Air Quality
  • pollution
  • health
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
Initiatives

Urban Heat and Passive Cooling

Woman walking wearing covering for heat and umbrella.
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Oslo's 'Climate Budget' Is Building a Cleaner City

  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
  • climate policy
  • greenhouse gases
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
Oslo construction site
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Cities
  • climate policy
  • greenhouse gases
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations

Campinas, Brazil, Launches Integrated Climate Action Plan

  • National Climate Action
  • Climate
  • Climate Governance
  • greenhouse gases
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
A pamphlet about Campinas's climate action plan is held up before a city hall audience.
  • National Climate Action
  • Climate
  • Climate Governance
  • greenhouse gases
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
Insights

As the Earth Gets Hotter, Can Our Cities Get Cooler?

  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • nature-based solutions
  • data visualization
A line of tourists await the use of the fountain at the base of Rome’s Spanish Steps to cool off.
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • nature-based solutions
  • data visualization
News
  • COP28
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Cities