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5 Priorities for Urban Climate Action in 2023 and Beyond

  • transportation
  • electric mobility
  • Freshwater
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • nature-based solutions
  • poverty
  • human rights
A new electric bus in New Delhi, India
  • transportation
  • electric mobility
  • Freshwater
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • nature-based solutions
  • poverty
  • human rights
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
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A Just Transition to a Zero-carbon World Is Possible. Here’s How.

  • climate change
  • fossil fuels
  • human rights
  • renewable energy
  • COP26
two men installing solar panels
  • climate change
  • fossil fuels
  • human rights
  • renewable energy
  • COP26

Chile’s Protests Offer Lessons on Social Inequality and Climate Action

  • Climate
  • COP25
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • poverty
Protests in Santiago, Chile
  • Climate
  • COP25
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • poverty

RELEASE: Global Leaders Call for Urgent Action on Climate Adaptation; Commission Finds Adaptation Can Deliver $7.1 Trillion in Benefits

  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • Business
  • adaptation finance
  • infrastructure
  • agriculture
  • hurricanes
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • Business
  • adaptation finance
  • infrastructure
  • agriculture
  • hurricanes
Insights

Climate Disasters Are Getting Worse. Here's How Developing Countries Are Insuring Against Them

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • extreme weather
  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
  • climate finance
  • hurricanes
A child sits on water jugs provided after Cyclone Idai.
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • extreme weather
  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
  • climate finance
  • hurricanes

The IPCC Calls for Securing Community Land Rights to Fight Climate Change

  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • restoration
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Women of Peru's Awajun Native Community of Shampuyacu
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • restoration
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Climate Action Will Shape People’s Lives. They Should Have a Chance to Shape Climate Action

  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • long-term strategies
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • international climate policy
climate migration
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • long-term strategies
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • international climate policy
Technical Perspectives

INSIDER: Leaving No One Behind in Advancing Climate Actions: Implications and Opportunities

  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • poverty
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • poverty

Recent Scientific Advancements Show New Connections Between Climate Change and Hurricanes

  • climate change
  • extreme weather
  • hurricanes
Hurricane Florence
  • climate change
  • extreme weather
  • hurricanes
News

ADVISORY: WRI Honors Darren Walker and Feike Sijbesma at "Courage to Lead" Dinner

  • conservation
  • land use
  • Climate Resilience
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • environmental justice
  • food security
  • health
  • human rights
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
  • conservation
  • land use
  • Climate Resilience
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • environmental justice
  • food security
  • health
  • human rights
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
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Extreme Weather: What’s Climate Change Got to Do With It?

  • Climate
  • extreme weather
  • hurricanes
  • water pollution
Houseboat stuck in low-lying water and debris on Scout Key
  • Climate
  • extreme weather
  • hurricanes
  • water pollution
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Climate Governance

Using Open Government for Climate Action

  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
  • environmental democracy
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • international climate policy
  • public participation
  • UNFCCC
Meeting on climate change in Burkina Faso
  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
  • environmental democracy
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • international climate policy
  • public participation
  • UNFCCC

Tackling Climate Change through Budget Transparency

  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • human rights
Dry season bean production in drought-affected Nicaragua. Photo by Neil Palmer (CIAT)/Flickr.
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • human rights
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Sustainable Transport: Building Equitable and Low-Carbon Cities

  • International Climate Action
  • Cities
  • Urban Mobility
  • COP21
  • public transit
  • human rights
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety
BRT and bike lane
  • International Climate Action
  • Cities
  • Urban Mobility
  • COP21
  • public transit
  • human rights
  • transportation
  • Health & Road Safety

Ensuring Adaptation Finance Accountability

  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • human rights
Climate-smart agriculture in Kenya
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • human rights
Insights

The Pope, the Economy and the Case for Climate Action

  • Economics
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • poverty
Pope Francis issues his long awaited Encyclical on Climate Change this week. Photo by Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk
  • Economics
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • poverty
Research

Building Climate Equity

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Quick Perspective on UN Secretary-General’s Vision for a Post-2015 Agenda

  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • development
  • human rights
  • climate science
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
Photo by UNDP via OXFAM/Flickr.
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • development
  • human rights
  • climate science
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset