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    Insights
    November 29, 2023

    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
    Freshwater
    Africa
    Update
    January 27, 2023

    Restoring a Degraded Ethiopian Watershed for Water and Livelihood Security

    • food security
    • agriculture
    • poverty
    • Climate Equity
    • Freshwater
    This view of the degraded Minzir 01 watershed shows evident signs of gully formation and low stream flow.
    • food security
    • agriculture
    • poverty
    • Climate Equity
    • Freshwater
    Cities
    Africa
    News
    November 14, 2022

    RELEASE: WRI and Partners Launch Fund to Help African Cities Build Water Resilience

    • COP27
    • Freshwater
    • Cities
    • urban water resilience
    • adaptation
    • Climate Resilience
    • COP27
    • Freshwater
    • Cities
    • urban water resilience
    • adaptation
    • Climate Resilience
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    January 19, 2021

    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
    Climate
    Africa
    Insights
    December 2, 2020

    East African Climate Groups Help Fight the COVID-19 Crisis

    • adaptation finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • coronavirus
    • Climate
    • climate change
    • climate impacts
    People wearing masks standing in line.
    • adaptation finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • coronavirus
    • Climate
    • climate change
    • climate impacts
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    September 16, 2020

    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
    Climate
    Africa
    Insights
    October 7, 2019

    Climate Change Is Hurting Africa’s Water Sector, but Investing in Water Can Pay Off

    • Climate Resilience
    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
    • Water Security
    • natural infrastructure
    • water risk
    Improving water management in African countries can improve climate resilience. Here, Waretu Abera, Head of Ethiopia's Water Land Resource Centre, stands by a stream. Photo by Panos Pictures/Food and Land Use Coalition.
    • Climate Resilience
    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
    • Water Security
    • natural infrastructure
    • water risk
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    January 30, 2019

    Climate Change, Frigid Temperatures and the Polar Vortex: 3 Things to Know

    • climate science
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    • climate impacts
    polar vortex
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    • climate impacts
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    November 25, 2018

    National Climate Assessment: U.S. Climate Action Can Avoid Tens of Thousands of Deaths, Hundreds of Billions in Damages Annually

    • U.S. Climate
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • climate impacts
    • U.S. policy
    Hurricane Harvey
    • U.S. Climate
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • climate impacts
    • U.S. policy
    Climate
    North America
    News
    November 23, 2018

    STATEMENT: Fourth National Climate Assessment Confirms Climate Change Will Affect All Regions and All Sectors of U.S. Economy

    • Air Quality
    • Water Security
    • fires
    • climate science
    • natural infrastructure
    • Climate Resilience
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • health
    • climate impacts
    • water pollution
    • pollution
    • sea level rise
    • Ocean
    • Air Quality
    • Water Security
    • fires
    • climate science
    • natural infrastructure
    • Climate Resilience
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • health
    • climate impacts
    • water pollution
    • pollution
    • sea level rise
    • Ocean
    Africa Europe
    Insights
    July 6, 2018

    Why Climate Change is a Security Matter

    • Climate Resilience
    • circular economy
    • climate change
    • Freshwater
    Mopti riverfront
    • Climate Resilience
    • circular economy
    • climate change
    • Freshwater
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    November 3, 2017

    U.S. Climate Assessment: Now Is the Warmest Period of Modern Times

    • COP23
    • climate science
    • Climate
    It's hot out here.
    • COP23
    • climate science
    • Climate
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    August 16, 2017

    Draft U.S. National Climate Assessment Confirms Fundamental Truths of Climate Change

    • U.S. Climate
    • U.S. policy
    • climate science
    Climate change will affect all Americans. The NCA projects how.
    • U.S. Climate
    • U.S. policy
    • climate science
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    June 22, 2017

    Manish Bapna to Congress on Climate Action: “We Are Not Backing Down and We Hope You Won’t Either”

    • U.S. Climate
    • U.S. policy
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate science
    • climate policy
    • U.S. Climate
    • U.S. policy
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate science
    • climate policy
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    June 20, 2017

    Pruitt’s “Red Team-Blue Team” Exercise a Bad Fit for EPA Climate Science

    • climate science
    • Climate
    • U.S. policy
    EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt
    • climate science
    • Climate
    • U.S. policy
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    April 20, 2017

    Attacks on Science Threaten All of Us

    • U.S. policy
    • climate science
    Scientists at work
    • U.S. policy
    • climate science
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    March 31, 2017

    Does Science Have a Future in “Alternative Facts” America?

    • climate science
    • climate change
    • U.S. policy
    Donald Trump
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • U.S. policy

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