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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
News

STATEMENT: UN Water Conference Delivers Some Game-Changing Commitments, Yet Far More Action and Finance Needed to Address Global Water Crisis

  • Freshwater
  • Water Security
  • urban water resilience
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
  • Freshwater
  • Water Security
  • urban water resilience
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • Cities
  • Urban Development

7 Ways Faith Organizations Are Making Cities More Sustainable and Equitable

  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate Equity
  • Urban Development
People distribute food in front of a mosque
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate Equity
  • Urban Development
Update

Celebrating the Coalition for Urban Transitions

  • Urban Development
  • Urban Mobility
  • Climate Resilience
  • Energy
  • Climate
Aerial view of Nahargarh Fort in Jaipur, India
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Mobility
  • Climate Resilience
  • Energy
  • Climate

Why the US Also Needs Carbon Pricing in the Reconciliation Bill

  • climate policy
  • electric grid
  • carbon pricing
  • renewable energy
Xcel Energy's Sherburne County (Sherco) Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant, near Becker, Minnesota
  • climate policy
  • electric grid
  • carbon pricing
  • renewable energy

Transformative Urban Coalitions Project Focuses on Urban Labs in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico

  • Urban Development
  • Urban Mobility
  • Climate Resilience
Houses on a hill
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Mobility
  • Climate Resilience

Trade Associations Speak on Carbon Pricing. Will Action Follow?

  • carbon pricing
  • GHG emissions
  • Business
Emissions coming from a factory with a gray sky in the background.
  • carbon pricing
  • GHG emissions
  • Business

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

STATEMENT: Business Roundtable Calls for a “Comprehensive” Approach to Address Climate Change

  • carbon pricing
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • carbon pricing
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
Initiatives

Coronavirus Recovery

<h2>WRI Statement in Response to COVID-19</h2><p>Statement from Dr. Andrew Steer, CEO and President of World Resources Institute, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
Insights

How Does a Flood-prone City Run Out of Water? Inside Chennai’s “Day Zero” Crisis

  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Aqueduct
  • floods
  • Water Security
  • Urban Development
  • water risk
Chennai
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Aqueduct
  • floods
  • Water Security
  • Urban Development
  • water risk
Insights
Heidelberg, Germany
  • climate science
  • Climate

5 Things to Look for in the Green New Deal

  • U.S. Climate
  • carbon pricing
  • carbon removal
  • climate change
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy
wind farm
  • U.S. Climate
  • carbon pricing
  • carbon removal
  • climate change
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy
Insights

4 Ways to Shift from Fossil Fuels to Clean Energy

  • Energy
  • Economics
  • carbon pricing
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • fossil fuels
Japan solar
  • Energy
  • Economics
  • carbon pricing
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • fossil fuels