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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
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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

Recommendations for Collaboration Between the US and China on Methane Emissions

  • GHG emissions
  • agriculture
  • waste
  • mapping
Tiered hill agriculture.
  • GHG emissions
  • agriculture
  • waste
  • mapping
Initiatives

AgriAdapt 

Monitoring crops.
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>
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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

Visualizing a Warmer World: 10 Maps of Climate Vulnerability

  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
  • mapping
Storm surge in New Orleans
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
  • mapping
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RELEASE: New Public-Private Partnership Launched to Help Communities Bridge Gap Between Climate Data and Resiliency Planning

  • mapping
  • Climate Resilience
  • data
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
  • mapping
  • Climate Resilience
  • data
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • climate impacts
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When Could the Paris Agreement Take Effect? Interactive Map Sheds Light

  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • data
  • international climate policy
  • mapping
  • UNFCCC
The Paris Agreement Tracker
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • data
  • international climate policy
  • mapping
  • UNFCCC
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Forests Are in the Paris Agreement! Now What?

  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • mapping
  • restoration
  • UNFCCC
Myanmar forest
  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • mapping
  • restoration
  • UNFCCC

New Platform Reveals How Much Carbon Is Locked in Tropical Forests – and How Much Was Lost

  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • mapping
  • UNFCCC
GFW Climate will help measure emissions from tropical deforestation. Photo credit: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cifor/14626255095/in/album-72157645614284212/">M. Edliadi for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">cc</a>
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • mapping
  • UNFCCC
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4 Reasons to Be Hopeful About Forests at COP 21

  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • mapping
  • UNFCCC
Agroforestry
  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
  • mapping
  • UNFCCC
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Beyond Conflict, Water Stress Contributed to Europe’s Migration Crisis

  • Climate Resilience
  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • agriculture
  • mapping
  • water risk
Photo Credit: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/47205547@N02/21910319813/">MichaelGubi</a> via <a href="http://compfight.com">Compfight</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">cc</a>
  • Climate Resilience
  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • agriculture
  • mapping
  • water risk
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With Latest Fires Crisis, Indonesia Surpasses Russia as World’s Fourth-Largest Emitter

  • Climate
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • fires
  • mapping
  • commodities
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • fires
  • mapping
  • commodities
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset