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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

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
Initiatives

Systems Change Lab

Person in crowd holding sign that reads "SYSTEM CHANGE NOT CLIMATE CHANGE" with Earth image on cardboard sign.
Outcomes

Cities Prioritize Public Transportation and Cycling in Response to COVID-19

  • Top Outcome: 2020
  • Health & Road Safety
Bikers are protected by road barriers in India. Photo by Rajeev Malagi/WRI India.
  • Top Outcome: 2020
  • Health & Road Safety

Mexico Adds Fundamental Right to Mobility to Its Constitution

  • Top Outcome: 2020
  • Urban Mobility
Bikers, skateboarders and cars coexist in Merida, Mexico. Photo by Megapress/Alamy
  • Top Outcome: 2020
  • 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
Outcomes
A forest in West Bengali, India. Photo by Suprakash Shown/Unsplash
  • Top Outcome: 2020
Initiatives

Cities4Forests

Pond and trees in front of city skyline.
News

RELEASE: Cities Need to Focus on Equitable Access to Core Services to Achieve Economic Prosperity and Environmental Sustainability

  • land use
  • Urban Mobility
  • Cities
  • Energy
  • Energy Access
  • poverty
  • Urban Development
  • wastewater
  • Freshwater
  • world resources report
  • land use
  • Urban Mobility
  • Cities
  • Energy
  • Energy Access
  • poverty
  • Urban Development
  • wastewater
  • Freshwater
  • world resources report
Insights

World Water Day: How “Sludge” Can Power China’s Cities While Cutting Emissions

  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Air Quality
  • pollution
  • renewable energy
  • wastewater
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Air Quality
  • pollution
  • renewable energy
  • wastewater
Insights

Signs of Worry, Signs of Hope on World Water Day

  • Aqueduct
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • Cities
  • wastewater
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
Children in India carry water.
  • Aqueduct
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • Cities
  • wastewater
  • Freshwater
  • water risk