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When Non-state Actors Are Transparent About their Climate Actions, the Benefits Go Both Ways

  • Tracking Climate Action
  • corporate sustainability
  • climate policy
People on bicycles on a sunny street with palm trees and city buildings in the background.
  • Tracking Climate Action
  • corporate sustainability
  • climate policy
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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

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
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An Innovative Jobs Program in Odisha, India Helped Informal Workers Through COVID-19 and Beyond

  • poverty
  • coronavirus
  • Climate Resilience
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
Workers build steps in Odisha, India
  • poverty
  • coronavirus
  • Climate Resilience
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
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3 Ways the Circular Economy Can Aid Climate Action

  • Business
  • corporate sustainability
  • adaptation
  • Clean Energy
Rooftop solar panels
  • Business
  • corporate sustainability
  • adaptation
  • Clean Energy

The SEC’s New Climate Rule is Plain Common Sense

  • climate policy
  • corporate sustainability
  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • Paying for Paris
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters building in Washington, DC.
  • climate policy
  • corporate sustainability
  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • Paying for Paris
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The Bar for Corporate Climate Leadership Has Risen

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • corporate sustainability
  • science based targets
  • Business
London skyline
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • corporate sustainability
  • science based targets
  • Business
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It’s About Time: The Climate Community Invests in Securing Community Land

  • land rights
  • COP26
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
A large patch of lemongrass in the Chisapani Community Forest
  • land rights
  • COP26
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
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3 Ways to Ensure Corporate Net-zero Targets Are Credible

  • net-zero emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • corporate sustainability
Wind turbines in Rubió, Spain
  • net-zero emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • corporate sustainability

6 Ways Large Energy Buyers  Can Transform the US Electrical Grid 

  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. Climate
  • electric grid
  • Business
  • corporate sustainability
  • COP26
Dillon Wind Power Project
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. Climate
  • electric grid
  • Business
  • corporate sustainability
  • COP26

4 Ways Indigenous and Community Lands Help Fight Climate Change

  • Climate
  • Forests
  • National Climate Action
  • Paris Agreement
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • land rights
  • COP26
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • National Climate Action
  • Paris Agreement
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • land rights
  • COP26
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance

City Leaders Must Prioritize Climate Resilience of Vulnerable Communities

  • Cities
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • poverty
Penjaringan, North Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Cities
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • poverty

Ensuring a "Just Transition": 5 Priorities to Make Climate Action Benefit Low-Income and Disadvantaged Groups

  • Climate
  • COP25
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • Climate Equity
  • Equity & Governance
  • Gender
  • poverty
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
A youth group marching in Paris, with a banner that says "climate justice = social justice." Photo by Andreas Link/Young FoEE
  • Climate
  • COP25
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • Climate Equity
  • Equity & Governance
  • Gender
  • poverty
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

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

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
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
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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

Land Ruling Threatens Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples and Climate Commitments

  • Forests
  • National Climate Action
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
view of Chapada Diamantina in Brazil
  • Forests
  • National Climate Action
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset