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Better Forests, Better Cities

Cityscape behind lush forest.

What Would Cities Look Like With 3 Degrees C of Warming vs. 1.5? Far More Hazardous and Vastly Unequal

  • Cities
  • Climate
  • Equity & Governance
  • climate change
  • health
  • data visualization
A woman carries water during a blistering hot day in New Delhi, India.
  • Cities
  • Climate
  • Equity & Governance
  • climate change
  • health
  • data visualization

Community Mangrove Management and the Transformation of Coastal Communities

  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • nature-based solutions
  • Economics
  • Gender
  • restoration
Two women presenting in a workshop.
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • nature-based solutions
  • Economics
  • Gender
  • restoration
Initiatives

AgriAdapt 

Monitoring crops.

How Climate Change Affects Health and How Countries Can Respond

  • Climate Resilience
  • health
  • adaptation finance
  • climate change
  • climatewatch-pinned
Health workers in Kenya prepare supplies in front of a window with children looking through on the other side.
  • Climate Resilience
  • health
  • adaptation finance
  • climate change
  • climatewatch-pinned

A Fairer and More Sustainable Post-COVID World in Latin America

  • biking
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • infrastructure
  • sanitation
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
  • transportation
  • Freshwater
Silhouette of a person with a bicycle overlooking Belo Horizonte's skyline. Photo by Mariana Gil/WRI.
  • biking
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • infrastructure
  • sanitation
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
  • transportation
  • Freshwater
Insights

Without Solar, Some Indian Doctors Must Operate in the Dark

  • Humans of Clean Energy
  • electric grid
  • Energy
  • Energy Access
  • health
  • renewable energy
  • Equity & Governance
Rooftop solar panels on Sadar Hospital in Hazaribaug, India
  • Humans of Clean Energy
  • electric grid
  • Energy
  • Energy Access
  • health
  • renewable energy
  • Equity & Governance

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

Women Are the Secret Weapon for Better Water Management

  • Freshwater
  • Sustainable Development Goal 5
  • Sustainable Development Goal 6
  • Water Security
  • Gender
  • water risk
  • Freshwater
  • Sustainable Development Goal 5
  • Sustainable Development Goal 6
  • Water Security
  • Gender
  • water risk
Insights

Bad Air to Better Oceans: 6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2018

  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • Ocean
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Aqueduct
  • stories to watch
  • Air Quality
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • Ocean
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Aqueduct
  • stories to watch
  • Air Quality
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
Woman drawing water from the Ciujung river
  • Equity & Governance
  • Freshwater

RELEASE: Is the Water Safe To Drink? Without Better Access to Pollution Information, Asia’s Poorest People Don’t Know

  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • pollution
  • Freshwater
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • pollution
  • Freshwater