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    Climate Initiatives Insights
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    January 9, 2025

    US States Are Creating a Pipeline of Trained EV Workers — Here Are the Emerging Trends

    • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric Vehicles
    • electric mobility
    A worker evaluates an electric vehicle on the assembly line.
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Electric Vehicles
    • electric mobility
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    Insights
    January 8, 2025

    How Global Climate Initiatives Can Risk Indigenous Women’s Land Rights

    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • land rights
    • Gender
    • Climate Equity
    A woman cooks in La Guajira, Colombia.
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • land rights
    • Gender
    • Climate Equity
    Climate
    Insights
    December 23, 2024

    Why Broken Resolutions Are Not (Entirely) Your Fault

    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • biking
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • health
    Cyclists and pedestrians on a street in Dublin.
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • biking
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • health
    Insights
    December 19, 2024

    2024 in Review: Our Biggest Stories on People, Nature and the Climate

    • Climate
    • Energy
    • Finance
    • Forests
    • Cities
    • Ocean
    • Freshwater
    • Food
    Three workers installing solar panels on a roof.
    • Climate
    • Energy
    • Finance
    • Forests
    • Cities
    • Ocean
    • Freshwater
    • Food
    Climate
    Insights
    December 18, 2024

    Tackling Climate and Nature Together in 2025

    • climate change
    • biodiversity
    • development
    • climate finance
    • Climate
    • COP29
    Women working on restoration project in Kenya.
    • climate change
    • biodiversity
    • development
    • climate finance
    • Climate
    • COP29
    Climate
    Insights
    December 5, 2024

    Where Do Emissions Come From? 4 Charts Explain Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Sector

    • Energy
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • greenhouse gases
    • climatewatch-pinned
    • data visualization
    Busy traffic on a highway.
    • Energy
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • greenhouse gases
    • climatewatch-pinned
    • data visualization
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    December 4, 2024

    Detroit Passed the First Law Giving Communities a Say in Development Projects. Here’s What Happened

    • climate policy
    • U.S. Climate
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate Equity
    • development
    • U.S. Community Benefits Frameworks
    Scaffolding being constructed for a large industrial building.
    • climate policy
    • U.S. Climate
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate Equity
    • development
    • U.S. Community Benefits Frameworks
    Climate
    Insights
    November 27, 2024

    Key Outcomes from COP29: Unpacking the New Global Climate Finance Goal and Beyond

    • Climate
    • COP29
    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • International Climate Action
    • UNFCCC
    • National Climate Action
    • NDC
    • adaptation
    People walk under an ornate archway labeled "COP29."
    • Climate
    • COP29
    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • International Climate Action
    • UNFCCC
    • National Climate Action
    • NDC
    • adaptation
    Forests
    Insights
    November 25, 2024

    Finance for Women Is Key to Restoring Africa’s Degraded Lands

    • restoration
    • Gender
    • Climate
    • Finance
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    A member of the Paran Women Group at a tree planting site on the slopes of the Mau Forest in Narok County, Kenya.
    • restoration
    • Gender
    • Climate
    • Finance
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Finance
    Insights
    November 19, 2024

    Getting a New Climate Finance Deal this Week Hinges on 3 Elements

    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • Climate
    • COP29
    COP29 banner in Baku, Azerbaijan
    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • Climate
    • COP29
    Finance
    Insights
    November 14, 2024

    Multilateral Development Bank Climate Finance: The Good, Bad and the Urgent

    • climate finance
    • Climate
    • Finance
    • fossil fuels
    • adaptation finance
    • COP29
    Workers installing solar panels.
    • climate finance
    • Climate
    • Finance
    • fossil fuels
    • adaptation finance
    • COP29
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    November 13, 2024

    Trump May Thwart Federal Climate Action, but Opportunities for Progress Remain

    • U.S. Climate
    • Energy
    • renewable energy
    • Cities
    • International Climate Action
    • international climate policy
    Installing solar panels on an office building in Mesa, Arizona
    • U.S. Climate
    • Energy
    • renewable energy
    • Cities
    • International Climate Action
    • international climate policy
    Cities
    Insights
    November 13, 2024

    Countries Have Been Overlooking Their Biggest Climate Allies: Local and Regional Governments

    • Cities
    • National Climate Action
    • NDC
    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    Families sit and play on a grassy hill at a park overlooking a city.
    • Cities
    • National Climate Action
    • NDC
    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    Food
    Europe
    Insights
    November 12, 2024

    Denmark’s Groundbreaking Agriculture Climate Policy Sets Strong Example for the World

    • agriculture
    • Climate
    • climate policy
    • pollution
    • COP29
    • greenhouse gases
    A farmer watches over his cows as they eat.
    • agriculture
    • Climate
    • climate policy
    • pollution
    • COP29
    • greenhouse gases
    Climate
    Insights
    November 11, 2024

    Global Climate Pledges: A Progress Report

    • NDC
    • COP29
    • Energy
    • Forests
    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • National Climate Action
    • transportation
    • pollution
    • Cities
    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    • Urban Mobility
    • climatewatch-pinned
    Workers repair a damaged wind turbine blade
    • NDC
    • COP29
    • Energy
    • Forests
    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • National Climate Action
    • transportation
    • pollution
    • Cities
    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    • Urban Mobility
    • climatewatch-pinned
    Finance
    Insights
    November 7, 2024

    China Is Providing Billions in Climate Finance to Developing Countries

    • climate finance
    • Climate
    • Finance
    • COP29
    Large solar field with workers.
    • climate finance
    • Climate
    • Finance
    • COP29
    Climate
    Insights
    November 4, 2024

    By the Numbers: The Climate Action We Need This Decade

    • Climate
    • climate change
    • NDC
    • Buildings
    • net-zero emissions
    • industry
    • transportation
    • Forests
    • Food
    • agriculture
    • carbon removal
    • COP29
    • data visualization
    • climatewatch-pinned
    People cycling on bike lanes in São Paulo, Brazil.
    • Climate
    • climate change
    • NDC
    • Buildings
    • net-zero emissions
    • industry
    • transportation
    • Forests
    • Food
    • agriculture
    • carbon removal
    • COP29
    • data visualization
    • climatewatch-pinned
    Climate
    Insights
    November 4, 2024

    What Is 'Loss and Damage' from Climate Change? 8 Key Questions, Answered

    • climate impacts
    • climate policy
    • Climate Resilience
    • climatewatch-pinned
    • COP28
    • COP29
    Rising water levels submerging a house as heavy monsoon rains cause major floods in Baco, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines on July 23, 2021.
    • climate impacts
    • climate policy
    • Climate Resilience
    • climatewatch-pinned
    • COP28
    • COP29
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    October 31, 2024

    Empowering Justice40: How Community-Based Organizations Are Driving Environmental Justice Forward

    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • environmental justice
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity
    Students from the Detroit Community School paint a mural.
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • environmental justice
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity

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