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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
Insights

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

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
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
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

Curbing Climate Change and Preventing Deaths from Air Pollution Go Hand-in-Hand

  • Climate
  • Air Quality
  • National Climate Action
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
China air pollution
  • Climate
  • Air Quality
  • National Climate Action
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • Cities
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
Initiatives

Cities4Forests

Pond and trees in front of city skyline.
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Paris Agreement Clears Final Hurdle to Begin New Era of Global Climate Action

  • COP22
  • National Climate Action
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
Eiffel tower
  • COP22
  • National Climate Action
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
News

STATEMENT: Paris Agreement Crosses Final Threshold to Enter into Force

  • International Climate Action
  • COP22
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • International Climate Action
  • COP22
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • NDC
News

ADVISORY: WRI Press Call on Paris Agreement Entry into Force

  • COP22
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • COP22
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
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Paris Agreement Crosses Threshold to Enter into Force

  • COP22
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • Climate
  • COP22
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • Climate
Technical Perspectives
  • International Climate Action
  • COP22
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • NDC
Insights

Paris Climate Agreement Very Close to Entering into Force as 31 New Countries Join

  • National Climate Action
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
United Nations building
  • National Climate Action
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
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As World Convenes for Climate Week, Paris Agreement Is Nearly Ready for Action

  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • United Nations
UN building
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • United Nations
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How Countries Can Align Long-Term Climate Strategies with the Paris Agreement

  • International Climate Action
  • Climate
  • long-term strategies
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
Paris sunrise
  • International Climate Action
  • Climate
  • long-term strategies
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
Insights

Paris Agreement: Getting Closer to “Entering into Force” this Year

  • International Climate Action
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
Solar panels in Baleia, Brazil.
  • International Climate Action
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
News

RELEASE: WRI Selects Paula Caballero to Lead Climate Program

  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • sustainable development goals
  • UNFCCC
  • multilateral development banks
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • sustainable development goals
  • UNFCCC
  • multilateral development banks