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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
    Cities
    Insights
    June 26, 2023

    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
    Cities
    Update
    July 7, 2021

    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
    Cities
    Update
    January 21, 2021

    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
    Climate
    Initiatives
    April 15, 2020

    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>
    Cities
    Insights
    October 29, 2018

    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
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    November 28, 2016

    Using Open Government for Climate Action

    • Climate
    • National Climate Action
    • environmental democracy
    • climate change
    • human rights
    • international climate policy
    • public participation
    • UNFCCC
    Meeting on climate change in Burkina Faso
    • Climate
    • National Climate Action
    • environmental democracy
    • climate change
    • human rights
    • international climate policy
    • public participation
    • UNFCCC
    Climate
    Asia
    Insights
    April 21, 2015

    オバマ大統領の2025年GHG削減目標—野心的しかし達成は可能

    • forest monitoring
    • environmental democracy
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate change
    写真撮影: Mingia Zhou/Flickr.
    • forest monitoring
    • environmental democracy
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate change
    Climate
    Asia North America
    Insights
    November 13, 2014

    Obama’s Greenhouse Gas Target for 2025 is Ambitious—But Achievable

    • environmental democracy
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate change
    Emissions pollution in Fuyuan, Yunnan, China. Photo Credit: FLICKR/Mingia Zhou
    • environmental democracy
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate change
    Climate
    Latin America
    Insights
    July 29, 2014

    What Does Environmental Democracy Look Like?

    • Energy
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • renewable energy
    Eight years ago, developers proposed a five-dam project on the Baker and Pascua Rivers in Patagonia, Chile. While they projected that the hydropower would produce 2,750 megawatts of power, the project would also flood 23 square miles of wilderness, jeopardizing the environment, local culture, and tourism of the region. Photo Credit: International Rivers/Flickr
    • Energy
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • renewable energy
    Climate
    Initiatives
    June 27, 2013

    Climate Equity

    Single solar panel in Africa sand

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