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    Insights
    August 12, 2022

    After Inflation Reduction Act: 5 Ways to Hit the US Emissions Goal

    • Climate
    • Climate Governance
    • climate policy
    • U.S. policy
    • renewable energy
    • electric grid
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Transmission
    A construction worker carries a solar panel across a house roof for installation
    • Climate
    • Climate Governance
    • climate policy
    • U.S. policy
    • renewable energy
    • electric grid
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Transmission
    Climate
    Update
    August 8, 2022

    UN Human Rights Council Underscores the Need for Loss and Damage Action Ahead of COP27

    • United Nations
    • human rights
    • Climate Governance
    • Climate
    UN Geneva meeting in session
    • United Nations
    • human rights
    • Climate Governance
    • Climate
    Energy
    Africa
    Insights
    July 26, 2021

    Integrated Planning Helps Kenya Close its Energy Access Gap

    • Clean Energy
    • electric grid
    • renewable energy
    • low carbon development
    • Energy Access
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Kenya village
    • Clean Energy
    • electric grid
    • renewable energy
    • low carbon development
    • Energy Access
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    Insights
    September 11, 2019

    Coffee Farmers in Costa Rica Are Brewing Up Solutions to Climate Change and Competition

    • Climate Resilience
    • Sustainable Development Goal 1
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • agriculture
    Don Armando Navarro explains the climate adaptation measures he has implemented on his coffee farm. Photo by Stefanie Tye
    • Climate Resilience
    • Sustainable Development Goal 1
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • agriculture
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    September 10, 2019

    4 Things to Know About the Global Adaptation Challenge

    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • Economics
    • Sustainable Development Goal 1
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • climate change
    Cyclone Idai response in Mozambique
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • Economics
    • Sustainable Development Goal 1
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • climate change
    Energy
    Insights
    June 20, 2019

    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
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    January 24, 2019

    Land Matters: How Securing Community Land Rights Can Slow Climate Change and Accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals

    • Environmental Rights
    • sustainable development goals
    • land rights
    • natural resources
    • Sustainable Development Goal 2
    • Sustainable Development Goal 5
    • Sustainable Development Goal 9
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • Sustainable Development Goal 11
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
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    • Environmental Rights
    • sustainable development goals
    • land rights
    • natural resources
    • Sustainable Development Goal 2
    • Sustainable Development Goal 5
    • Sustainable Development Goal 9
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • Sustainable Development Goal 11
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Data
    June 20, 2017

    Logging, Mining, And Agricultural Concessions Data Transparency: A Survey Of 14 Forested Countries

    • Forests
    • environmental democracy
    • Forests
    • environmental democracy
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    March 8, 2017

    Global Festival of Ideas for Sustainable Development Calls for Radical Innovations to Achieve the SDGs

    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    Kirambo Health Center in Rwanda
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    September 21, 2016

    Manish Bapna Discusses Priorities for Open Government Partnership at UN General Assembly

    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    Equity & Governance
    News
    September 25, 2015

    WRI Calls SDGs "A Bold New Agenda For International Development"

    • Climate
    • Energy
    • Food
    • Forests
    • Freshwater
    • Cities
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    • Climate
    • Energy
    • Food
    • Forests
    • Freshwater
    • Cities
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    September 18, 2015

    Sustainable Development Goals: Setting a New Course for People and Planet

    • poverty
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    The unveiling of the Sustainable Development Goals next week will be a milestone moment for our collective future. Photo by US Mission to the United Nations Agencies in Rome/Flickr
    • poverty
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    Equity & Governance
    Africa
    Insights
    July 24, 2015

    Addis Ababa Agenda: Bold Sustainable Development Vision to Be Backed Up by Action

    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo by Henrik Berger Jørgensen/Flickr.
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Insights
    January 9, 2015

    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
    Equity & Governance
    Asia Africa Latin America
    Insights
    August 1, 2014

    Why Community Land Rights Belong in the Sustainable Development Goals

    • Equity & Governance
    • International Climate Action
    • land rights
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    The proposed Sustainable Development Goals leave out a critical component of improving rural livelihoods—securing community land rights. Photo credit: Jane Boles, Flickr
    • Equity & Governance
    • International Climate Action
    • land rights
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    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
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    June 23, 2014

    UNEP’s New Access to Information Policy Falls Short of True Transparency

    • Equity & Governance
    • Business
    • environmental democracy
    UNEP describes itself as “the voice for the environment within the United Nations system…acting as a catalyst, advocate, educator and facilitator to promote the wise use and sustainable development of the global environment.” Photo Credit: UN/Flickr
    • Equity & Governance
    • Business
    • environmental democracy
    Equity & Governance
    Asia Africa Latin America North America Europe
    Insights
    September 23, 2013

    Global Efforts to Tackle Poverty and Climate Change Must Come Together

    • Climate
    • Food
    • climate change
    • Equity & Governance
    • poverty
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    This week, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will address two of the most pressing challenges of our time: poverty and climate change. Photo credit: M. DeFreese/CIMMYT
    • Climate
    • Food
    • climate change
    • Equity & Governance
    • poverty
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations

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