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    Equity & Governance Clean Energy food security greenhouse gases pollution Initiatives Insights
    Climate
    Insights
    January 26, 2023

    To Shift Away from Oil and Gas, Developing Countries Need a ‘Just Transition’ to Protect Workers and Communities

    • Climate
    • climate policy
    • Climate Governance
    • greenhouse gases
    • climatewatch-pinned
    • COP28
    A gas extracting plant in Ukraine.
    • Climate
    • climate policy
    • Climate Governance
    • greenhouse gases
    • climatewatch-pinned
    • COP28
    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    July 25, 2022

    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
    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    May 26, 2022

    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
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    November 29, 2021

    The US Clean Energy Transition Isn’t Equitable — But it Could Be

    • Clean Energy
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate Equity
    • renewable energy
    • climate finance
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Clean Power
    Two stacked rows of electrical fuse boxes with different numbers on them.
    • Clean Energy
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate Equity
    • renewable energy
    • climate finance
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Clean Power
    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
    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
    Insights
    June 23, 2021

    How to Transform Food Systems in the Face of Climate Change

    • Climate
    • Food
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • food security
    • agriculture
    • COP26
    Tea farmer harvesting leaves in Sri Lanka
    • Climate
    • Food
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • food security
    • agriculture
    • COP26
    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
    Insights
    October 22, 2020

    Pollution Is a Racial Justice Issue. Let’s Fight it that Way.

    • human rights
    • pollution
    Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate
    • human rights
    • pollution
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    October 15, 2020

    Mongolia Shows How to Fight for Environmental Justice

    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • pollution
    Mongolia
    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • pollution
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    September 21, 2020

    Rural Women Must Be at the Heart of COVID-19 Response and Recovery

    • Equity & Governance
    • coronavirus
    • agriculture
    • food security
    • Gender
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Manioc farmer
    • Equity & Governance
    • coronavirus
    • agriculture
    • food security
    • Gender
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Climate
    Insights
    February 10, 2020

    5 Strategies that Achieve Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Simultaneously

    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • restoration
    • climate change
    • greenhouse gases
    • renewable energy
    • transportation
    • wetlands
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Reroroja village
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • restoration
    • climate change
    • greenhouse gases
    • renewable energy
    • transportation
    • wetlands
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Cities
    Initiatives
    March 20, 2019

    Electric School Bus Initiative

    Children board school bus
    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
    Insights
    January 16, 2018

    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
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Insights
    January 14, 2016

    6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2016

    • Finance
    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • Energy
    • Food
    • Cities
    • Business
    • Paris Agreement
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    • Green Climate Fund
    • renewable energy
    • U.S. policy
    • stories to watch
    Andrew Steer
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • Energy
    • Food
    • Cities
    • Business
    • Paris Agreement
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    • Green Climate Fund
    • renewable energy
    • U.S. policy
    • stories to watch
    Cities
    Insights
    September 28, 2015

    In Order to Solve Pollution, We Must First Solve Governance Challenges

    • Environmental Rights
    • Equity & Governance
    • environmental democracy
    • Air Quality
    • pollution
    • Freshwater
    • water risk
    Air pollution in China's Shaanxi Province. Photo by Gilad Rom/Flickr
    • Environmental Rights
    • Equity & Governance
    • environmental democracy
    • Air Quality
    • pollution
    • Freshwater
    • water risk
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Insights
    September 2, 2015

    Tianjin Disaster Magnifies Governance Challenges for Public Safety and the Environment

    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • pollution
    A black cloud of smoke rises from vehicles set on fire by the explosion in Tianjin. Photo by Karl-Ludwig Poggemann/Flickr
    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • pollution
    Food
    Insights
    August 7, 2014

    The Difference One Tree Can Make

    • Forests
    • Equity & Governance
    • agriculture
    • food security
    • restoration
    A babao tree in Zimbabwe. Planting hundreds or even millions of trees does not automatically translate into an increase in the overall long-term tree population. Photo Credit: Martin Heigan/Flickr
    • Forests
    • Equity & Governance
    • agriculture
    • food security
    • restoration
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    July 28, 2014

    Renewing the Global Commitment to Crop Breeding

    • Food
    • agriculture
    • food security
    A laboratory technician at the International Atomic Energy Agency's Plant Breeding Unit in Seibersdorf, Austria, checks on a phial containing a young banana plant. Photo Credit: Dean Calma/IAEA/Flickr
    • Food
    • agriculture
    • food security

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