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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

5 Ways Wildfires Affect People Near and Far

  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • fires
  • Climate
  • Cities
Women wear masks in New York City after Canadian wildfire causes dangerous air pollution
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • fires
  • Climate
  • Cities

4 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2023

  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • stories to watch
People dressed in warm clothes on bicycles carrying reusable shopping bags.
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • stories to watch

How to Protect Forest Carbon in a Fire-prone Future

  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • Forests
  • carbon removal
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands
Forest Service firefighters dig a fireline on a steep-sloped mountain to suppress fire in National Forest.
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • Forests
  • carbon removal
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Lands

7 Ways the Biden Administration Can Reverse Climate Rollbacks

  • Climate Resilience
  • GHG emissions
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate science
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • U.S. policy
President-elect Joe Biden having a conversation with Mark Updegrove, former director of the LBJ Library.
  • Climate Resilience
  • GHG emissions
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate science
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • U.S. policy

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

3 Ways President Biden and Congress Can Restore US Forests

  • Forests
  • carbon removal
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • U.S. policy
Pine trees in Rampart Lakes at dawn.
  • Forests
  • carbon removal
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • U.S. policy

Importing a Good Idea to the U.S.: Parametric Insurance and Climate-Related Risks

  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Paying for Paris
YMCA Mountain fire, Colorado, July 2020
  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Paying for Paris

Meeting the Climate Challenge Through a New Climate Federalism

  • Climate Resilience
  • climate policy
  • Climate
A city street in Washington, D.C. that ends at the Capitol building.
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate policy
  • Climate

6 Graphics Explain the Climate Feedback Loop Fueling US Fires

  • Forests
  • fires
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • climate impacts
Bobcat Fire, as seen from Monrovia, California
  • Forests
  • fires
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • climate impacts

Local Climate Action in US Proves Resilient to COVID-19

  • Climate
  • Buildings
  • Climate Resilience
  • coronavirus
  • GHG emissions
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
A windmill with a cloudy sky in the background.
  • Climate
  • Buildings
  • Climate Resilience
  • coronavirus
  • GHG emissions
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • transportation

Why the CFTC’s New Report on Climate Change and Financial Stability Matters

  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • commodities
  • Finance
Commodities futures trading, Chicago
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • commodities
  • Finance

How and Where to Plant 60 Billion Trees in the US

  • U.S. Climate
  • Forests
  • carbon removal
  • restoration
U.S. Forest Service ranger walking in a timber area in Pisgah National Forest
  • U.S. Climate
  • Forests
  • carbon removal
  • restoration

2020 Budget Shows Progress on Climate Finance, But US Continues to Fall Behind Peers

  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
Despite presidential rhetoric against climate finance, the US Congress still allocates money for overseas climate spending.Photo by marnie webb/Flickr.
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset