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    Equity & Governance environmental justice Ocean
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    April 1, 2024

    Ocean Carbon Removal Is Uncharted Territory. The US Can Help Change That

    • carbon removal
    • Ocean
    • Climate Governance
    • U.S. Climate
    A scientist takes a soil sample to measure carbon sequestration in a seagrass bed.
    • carbon removal
    • Ocean
    • Climate Governance
    • U.S. Climate
    Climate
    Technical Perspectives
    March 4, 2024

    5 Essential Principles of the Just Transition Work Programme for Climate Action

    • Climate Equity
    • environmental justice
    • COP28
    • Equity & Governance
    Flooding in Hoi An, Vietnam during the rainy season
    • Climate Equity
    • environmental justice
    • COP28
    • Equity & Governance
    Cities
    Research
    January 4, 2024

    Dataset of U.S. School Bus Depots

    School bus depot.
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    January 24, 2023

    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
    Forests
    News
    December 19, 2022

    STATEMENT: Countries Agree to Landmark Deal to Protect World’s Ecosystems

    • Forests
    • Ocean
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • restoration
    • biodiversity
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • Ocean
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • restoration
    • biodiversity
    • Equity & Governance
    Energy
    North America
    Technical Perspectives
    August 4, 2022

    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
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    December 9, 2021

    Why Aren't Countries Reporting Environmental Defender Killings?

    • Environmental Rights
    • environmental justice
    • Climate
    • deforestation
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Cleared land in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
    • Environmental Rights
    • environmental justice
    • Climate
    • deforestation
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    September 16, 2021

    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
    Climate
    Insights
    May 4, 2021

    There Is No Climate Justice Without Racial Justice

    • environmental justice
    • Equity & Governance
    A climate protest. Climate activists walk with a sign that reads climate justice equals racial justice.
    • environmental justice
    • Equity & Governance
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America Oceania North America Europe
    Insights
    April 6, 2021

    4 Ways to Reduce Plastic Pollution

    • Business
    • circular economy
    • coronavirus
    • waste
    • Ocean
    • pollution
    • regulation
    Plastic waits for recycling landfill in the Philippines.
    • Business
    • circular economy
    • coronavirus
    • waste
    • Ocean
    • pollution
    • regulation
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    News
    September 30, 2020

    ADVISORY: Embargoed WRI Press Call: Mining Threatens Indigenous Communities Across the Amazon

    • Equity & Governance
    • deforestation
    • environmental justice
    • pollution
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    • deforestation
    • environmental justice
    • pollution
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Insights
    September 15, 2020

    6 Keys to Turn Coastal Resilience Plans into Action

    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation finance
    • biking
    • extreme weather
    • climate change
    • Ocean
    A man wheels a megaphone mounted on bicycle along a neighborhood path in Bangladesh.
    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation finance
    • biking
    • extreme weather
    • climate change
    • Ocean
    Ocean
    Insights
    April 24, 2020

    The Ocean Genome Helps Fight Disease: Here's How We Save It

    • conservation
    • coronavirus
    • biodiversity
    • Equity & Governance
    • international climate policy
    • Ocean
    • protected areas
    Algae, corals and fish in an ocean gully.
    • conservation
    • coronavirus
    • biodiversity
    • Equity & Governance
    • international climate policy
    • Ocean
    • protected areas
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    July 10, 2019

    Climate Action Will Shape People’s Lives. They Should Have a Chance to Shape Climate Action

    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • long-term strategies
    • Sustainable Development Goal 16
    • Climate Equity
    • climate change
    • environmental justice
    • human rights
    • international climate policy
    climate migration
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • long-term strategies
    • Sustainable Development Goal 16
    • Climate Equity
    • climate change
    • environmental justice
    • human rights
    • international climate policy
    Africa
    Insights
    May 1, 2019

    Goldman Prize Winner Alfred Brownell Stopped Palm Oil Companies from Destroying Liberian Forests

    • Environmental Rights
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • environmental justice
    • land rights
    • low carbon development
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Alfred Brownell on a street in Boston, Massachusetts
    • Environmental Rights
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • environmental justice
    • land rights
    • low carbon development
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    March 11, 2019

    127 Countries Now Regulate Plastic Bags. Why Aren't We Seeing Less Pollution?

    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • Ocean
    • pollution
    • Freshwater
    plastic bag pollution
    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • Ocean
    • pollution
    • Freshwater
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    Insights
    September 27, 2018

    12 Countries Sign Historic Agreement Guaranteeing Environmental Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean

    • Equity & Governance
    • Sustainable Development Goal 16
    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • human rights
    • public participation
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    • Sustainable Development Goal 16
    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • human rights
    • public participation
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

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