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With Compact of Mayors, Cities Lead on Tackling Climate Change at UN Summit

  • International Climate Action
  • Cities
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • transportation
Through the Compact of Mayors and parallel initiatives, cities are making ambitious commitments to curb emissions, adopting new greenhouse gas emissions measuring standards, and supporting the financing of low-carbon infrastructure. Photo Credit: Braden/Flickr.
  • International Climate Action
  • Cities
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • transportation
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Analyzing Outcomes from the UN Climate Summit

  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • Business
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
More than 125 heads of state and government officials gathered for the UN Climate Summit 2014 in New York City. Photo credit: Holger Dalkmann, WRI
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • Business
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
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3 Climate Finance Highlights to Watch for at the NYC Climate Summit

  • International Climate Action
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
NYC People's Climate March, September 21, 2014. Photo Credit: United Nations/Flickr
  • International Climate Action
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund

ADVISORY: WRI Experts Explain What to Expect at the UN Climate Summit

  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • climate finance
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Towards A New Global Development Agenda: 5 Key Questions

  • Equity & Governance
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • development
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • Equity & Governance
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • development
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
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Learning from a “Living Laboratory”: 5 Lessons for the Green Climate Fund

  • climate investment funds
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Green Climate Fund
Tanzanian farmer with drought-affected maize.Climate change affects businesses, communities, government, and more, so it cannot be addressed without a range of actors stepping up. Photo Credit: Anne Wangalachi/CIMMYT
  • climate investment funds
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Green Climate Fund
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Closing the Renewable Energy Investment Gap

  • Energy
  • climate investment funds
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • renewable energy
Wind farm in Palmas, Brazil. The Global Status Report gives other encouraging examples of the falling cost of renewables, especially in major emerging markets. Photo Credit: Carla Wosniak/Flickr
  • Energy
  • climate investment funds
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • renewable energy
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Lessons from South Africa: Mobilizing Investment in Renewable Energy

  • Energy
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • climate investment funds
  • renewable energy
  • low carbon development
When it comes to renewable energy, South Africa has considerable, unrealized potential. Some estimate that wind power generation potential in South Africa could reach 80.54 TWh, which could be realized with an installed capacity of 30.6 GW. Photo credit: Lollie-Pop/Flickr
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • climate investment funds
  • renewable energy
  • low carbon development
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Statement: Green Climate Fund is “Ready for Business”

  • Finance
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund

Green Climate Fund Board Looks to Accreditation Process: Can it Strike the Right Balance?

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • low carbon development
One of the most difficult questions that the GCF Board will grapple with is how entities will become “accredited” to receive GCF funds to help developing countries mitigate and adapt to climate change. Photo credit: World Bank/Flickr
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • low carbon development
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What Is the Role for Transformation in Adaptation?

  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • climate science
Authors of a paper on transformational adaptation have deemed the development of wheat-resistant maize in Africa “transformative." Photo credit: WorldFish, Flickr 2012
  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • climate science
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Q&A with Dr. Karin Kemper: How Is the World Bank Addressing Climate Change?

  • Energy
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • international climate policy
  • multilateral development banks
Dr. Kemper shared plans to more fully incorporate sustainability—including climate change mitigation and adaptation—into its international development agenda. Photo credit: Dhilung Kirat, Flickr 2008
  • Energy
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • international climate policy
  • multilateral development banks
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Making Adaptation Finance Work

  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • international climate policy
Channeling and targeting funding effectively is a major challenge to reaching people who are most vulnerable to climate change. Photo credit: International Rivers, Flickr 2008
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • international climate policy
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4 Ways the Green Climate Fund Can Make Its Investments Count

  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • low carbon development
The Green Climate Fund aspires to become the main, global fund for providing climate change finance, contributing to activities like the expansion of renewable power. Photo credit: Solar Electric Light Fund, Flickr
  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • low carbon development
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2 Messages for the Green Climate Fund on Supporting “Readiness”

  • Finance
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
Readiness support is not new, and many countries are already receiving such support in one form or another. Photo Credit: Monica Muller, Flickr 2010
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
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A Climate Change Reality Check

  • Energy
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • GHG emissions
The Arctic currently has less than one-third of the multi-year ice that it had in 1980. | Photo Credit: Stephan Cook, Flickr 2009
  • Energy
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • GHG emissions
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4 Insights on Unlocking Finance for Clean Energy Access in Africa

  • Energy
  • climate finance
  • electric grid
  • renewable energy
Lighting for the base of the Pyramid. | Photo Credit: Frank van der Vlueten, Flickr 2009
  • Energy
  • climate finance
  • electric grid
  • renewable energy
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A Business Case for Building Climate Resilience

  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • Finance
Daniel Dowling of PriceWaterhouseCoopers was part of a week-long climate finance event in Songdo, South-Korea.
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • Finance