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2 Years of Justice40: Integrating Environmental Justice into US Climate Policy

  • environmental justice
  • Equity & Governance
  • infrastructure
  • Energy
  • U.S. policy
  • Tracking Climate Action
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity
Smokestacks in the background of a neighborhood with rowhouses in Baltimore, MD
  • environmental justice
  • Equity & Governance
  • infrastructure
  • Energy
  • U.S. policy
  • Tracking Climate Action
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity
Technical Perspectives

How Prepared Are US Cities to Implement the Justice40 Initiative?

  • environmental justice
  • Equity & Governance
  • Cities
  • infrastructure
  • Energy
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity
An electric bus against the backdrop of greenspace within a city
  • environmental justice
  • Equity & Governance
  • Cities
  • infrastructure
  • Energy
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Equity

Innovative Partnerships Bring Community Solar to Low-income Households in the US

  • Clean Energy
  • Equity & Governance
  • U.S. Climate
  • U.S. policy
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Community Solar
  • Paying for Paris
Solar field in Denver, Colorado
  • Clean Energy
  • Equity & Governance
  • U.S. Climate
  • U.S. policy
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Community Solar
  • Paying for Paris

7 Ways US Cities Can Make Clean Energy Initiatives More Equitable

  • renewable energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Equity & Governance
  • U.S. Climate
  • U.S. policy
  • Energy
Installing rooftop solar panels in upstate New York
  • renewable energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Equity & Governance
  • U.S. Climate
  • U.S. policy
  • Energy

Funding for an Equitable Clean Energy Transition Already Exists

  • Clean Energy
  • Finance
  • environmental justice
  • Equity & Governance
Wind turbine at dusk, Columbia Gorge, Wasco, Oregon, USA
  • Clean Energy
  • Finance
  • environmental justice
  • Equity & Governance

6 Innovative Ways to Fund Climate Action and Equity in US Cities

  • Climate
  • Climate Equity
  • Equity & Governance
  • climate finance
Solar panels on homes in Boulder, Colorado.
  • Climate
  • Climate Equity
  • Equity & Governance
  • climate finance
Orlando at night
  • Cities
  • Energy
  • Equity & Governance
Technical Perspectives
Solar panels in a field.
  • renewable energy
  • Equity & Governance
Initiatives

Energy Access Explorer

kutch sunset.jpg
Initiatives
Children board school bus
News

RELEASE: Report: Tanzania Mini-grid Sector Doubles with Bold Policy Approach

  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • Energy Access
  • sustainable development goals
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • Energy Access
  • sustainable development goals
Initiatives

Energy Access

Meenakshi Dewan tends to maintenance work on the solar street lighting in her village of Tinginaput, India. Huge pylons run across these hills, supplying power to the big cities – but rural areas like this are not connected to the main grid.
Insights

1.2 Billion People Lack Electricity. Increasing Supply Alone Won’t Fix the Problem

  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • electric grid
  • Energy Access
  • renewable energy
  • low carbon development
Pharmacy in Monrovia
  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • electric grid
  • Energy Access
  • renewable energy
  • low carbon development
Insights

“Pay-As-You-Go” Solar Could Electrify Rural Africa

  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • Business
  • Energy Access
  • renewable energy
  • low carbon development
Tanzania solar
  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • Business
  • Energy Access
  • renewable energy
  • low carbon development

6 Stories to Watch in 2015: Global Climate Deal, Sustainable Development Goals, Rising Water Risks and More

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • UNFCCC
  • United Nations
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
  • stories to watch
Andrew Steer presented 2015's Stories to Watch before a packed house at the Press Club in Washington, D.C. Photo by Bill Dugan/WRI
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • UNFCCC
  • United Nations
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
  • stories to watch

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