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People in Jakarta wait for a train while wearing face masks to reduce air pollution exposure
  • Cities
  • Air Quality
  • pollution
  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
Update

New Data Dashboard Helps Cities Build Urban Resilience in a Changing Climate

  • Cities
  • nature-based solutions
  • climate policy
  • Air Quality
  • GHG emissions
  • biodiversity
  • land use
  • Urban Development
Aerial view of skyscrapers and urban development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  • Cities
  • nature-based solutions
  • climate policy
  • Air Quality
  • GHG emissions
  • biodiversity
  • land use
  • Urban Development
Insights

An Innovative Jobs Program in Odisha, India Helped Informal Workers Through COVID-19 and Beyond

  • poverty
  • coronavirus
  • Climate Resilience
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
Workers build steps in Odisha, India
  • poverty
  • coronavirus
  • Climate Resilience
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
Insights

How Forests Near and Far Benefit People in Cities

  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Water Quality
  • Water Security
  • health
  • Climate
  • biodiversity
urban forest
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Water Quality
  • Water Security
  • health
  • Climate
  • biodiversity
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
Initiatives

Systems Change Lab

Person in crowd holding sign that reads "SYSTEM CHANGE NOT CLIMATE CHANGE" with Earth image on cardboard sign.
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5 Ways to Shape a Greener, More Equitable Recovery Through Transport

  • transportation
  • coronavirus
  • electric mobility
  • Urban Mobility
  • climate finance
  • COP26
  • Health & Road Safety
A group of people boarding a bus.
  • transportation
  • coronavirus
  • electric mobility
  • Urban Mobility
  • climate finance
  • COP26
  • Health & Road Safety
Data

Bikenomics: How Cycling Saves Cities Money

  • Urban Mobility
  • coronavirus
  • biking
  • Cities
  • Health & Road Safety
Bikenomics English infographic.
  • Urban Mobility
  • coronavirus
  • biking
  • Cities
  • 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
Insights

4 Reasons to Prioritize Electric Vehicles After COVID-19

  • coronavirus
  • electric mobility
  • Economics
  • transportation
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
electric vehicle charger
  • coronavirus
  • electric mobility
  • Economics
  • transportation
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
Insights

Green Space: An Underestimated Tool to Create More Equal Cities

  • Climate Resilience
  • Forests
  • coronavirus
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • natural infrastructure
  • Urban Development
People walking through a park.
  • Climate Resilience
  • Forests
  • coronavirus
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • natural infrastructure
  • Urban Development
Insights

As the UN Turns 75, Countries Should Embrace a Shared Vision of a Fairer, Safer and More Sustainable Future

  • coronavirus
  • Urban Mobility
  • Paris Agreement
  • Business
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • transportation
  • United Nations
Country flags leading to the entrance of the United Nations.
  • coronavirus
  • Urban Mobility
  • Paris Agreement
  • Business
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • transportation
  • United Nations

LA’s Time To Lead A Fair, Strong And Clean COVID-19 Recovery

  • Air Quality
  • coronavirus
  • Economics
Los Angeles Traffic
  • Air Quality
  • coronavirus
  • Economics
Insights

How Korea is Winning the Fight Against COVID-19 While Ramping Up Climate Ambition

  • Economics
  • Air Quality
  • coronavirus
  • National Climate Action
  • fossil fuels
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
Korean city at night
  • Economics
  • Air Quality
  • coronavirus
  • National Climate Action
  • fossil fuels
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
Insights
People wearing masks in a local market.
  • coronavirus
  • Cities
Insights

4 Investment Areas to Stimulate China's Economy After COVID-19

  • coronavirus
  • low carbon development
  • natural infrastructure
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
  • Economics
  • Health & Road Safety
Installation of solar photovoltaic panels on the roofs of the Hongqiao Passenger Rail Terminal in Shanghai, China.
  • coronavirus
  • low carbon development
  • natural infrastructure
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
  • Economics
  • Health & Road Safety
Update

WATCH: Cities at the Frontlines of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery

  • coronavirus
  • Urban Development
Person wearing a mask sitting down
  • coronavirus
  • Urban Development
Insights

Safer, More Sustainable Transport in a Post-COVID-19 World

  • coronavirus
  • transportation
  • Equity & Governance
  • Health & Road Safety
New York City transit workers sanitize subway cars and stations
  • coronavirus
  • transportation
  • Equity & Governance
  • Health & Road Safety
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset