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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
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Benchmarks for Success for COP28

  • COP28
  • United Nations
  • UNFCCC
  • Paris Agreement
  • International Climate Action
  • Climate
  • climate policy
  • international climate policy
  • climatewatch-pinned
Solar-powered water pump on a Malawi farm
  • COP28
  • United Nations
  • UNFCCC
  • Paris Agreement
  • International Climate Action
  • Climate
  • climate policy
  • international climate policy
  • climatewatch-pinned
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Cities Need a Systems-change Approach to Build Climate-resilient Communities

  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Climate Resilience
Looking down at city buildings, some with green roofs and the street below.
  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Climate Resilience
Update

UN Human Rights Council Underscores the Need for Loss and Damage Action Ahead of COP27

  • United Nations
  • human rights
  • Climate Governance
  • Climate
UN Geneva meeting in session
  • United Nations
  • human rights
  • Climate Governance
  • Climate
Technical Perspectives

5 Challenges the UNFCCC Must Overcome To Spur Climate Action

  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
  • Climate
  • United Nations
  • Paris Agreement
  • International Climate Action
The background of the opening plenary, COP26.
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
  • Climate
  • United Nations
  • Paris Agreement
  • International Climate Action
Insights

Will Progress at Climate Week Spur More Action Ahead of COP26?

  • United Nations
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • climate policy
  • National Climate Action
  • International Climate Action
  • COP26
  • NDC
  • Paris Agreement
Flags from different countries flying in front of the United Nations building.
  • United Nations
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • climate policy
  • National Climate Action
  • International Climate Action
  • COP26
  • NDC
  • Paris Agreement
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10 Big Findings From the First Batch of Long-Term Strategies

  • long-term strategies
  • United Nations
  • Paris Agreement
  • GHG emissions
  • National Climate Action
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • COP26
The front of the United Nations building lined with flags.
  • long-term strategies
  • United Nations
  • Paris Agreement
  • GHG emissions
  • National Climate Action
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • COP26
Insights

5 Issues to Watch at Climate Week 2021

  • climate change
  • climate policy
  • international climate policy
  • United Nations
  • International Climate Action
  • climatewatch-pinned
A utility worker installs rooftop solar panels in Jiujiang, East China
  • climate change
  • climate policy
  • international climate policy
  • United Nations
  • International Climate Action
  • climatewatch-pinned
Update

RELEASE: ‘Cities Race to Resilience’ Campaign Launched to Mobilize Action Ahead of COP26

  • urban water resilience
  • climate change
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
People on a boat and a person wading through a river
  • urban water resilience
  • climate change
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate

The Payoffs of Open Climate Data

  • Climate
  • data
Ramani Huria workshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  • Climate
  • data
Insights

How Do Countries' New Emissions-reduction Plans Stack Up?

  • Climate
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • National Climate Action
  • Paris Agreement
  • GHG emissions
  • United Nations
  • COP26
Windmills with a sunset in the background.
  • Climate
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • National Climate Action
  • Paris Agreement
  • GHG emissions
  • United Nations
  • COP26
Update

ADVISORY: New Global Program ‘1000 Cities Adapt Now’ at Climate Adaptation Summit 2021

  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • urban water resilience
  • adaptation
  • Climate Resilience
Join the Climate Adaptation Summit poster
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • urban water resilience
  • adaptation
  • Climate Resilience
Insights

Leveraging the Ocean's Carbon Removal Potential

  • Ocean
  • Climate
  • carbon removal
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
  • restoration
An ocean next to a cityscape.
  • Ocean
  • Climate
  • carbon removal
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
  • restoration
Insights

4 Questions About China's New Climate Commitments

  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • United Nations
Electric bus in Hangzhou, China
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • United Nations
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>
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4 Priorities for the COP25 Climate Conference in Madrid

  • COP25
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
  • United Nations
Gran Via, Madrid
  • COP25
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
  • United Nations
News

ADVISORY: WRI Press Call: What to Expect at COP25 Climate Negotiations in Madrid

  • COP25
  • climate change
  • United Nations
  • COP25
  • climate change
  • United Nations
Insights

4 Leaders—And Far Too Many Laggards—At the UN Climate Action Summit

  • Climate
  • climate change
  • United Nations
UN Secretary-General António Guterres
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • United Nations