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Development Banks Are Starting to Spark Climate Action. Will They Complete the Task?

  • Climate
  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
  • development
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
Setting up a solar-powered water pump to pump groundwater in Ethiopia.
  • Climate
  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
  • development
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
Technical Perspectives

How Multilateral Development Banks Can Use Policy-Based Financing to Support Climate-Resilient Economies

  • multilateral development banks
  • Climate
  • low carbon development
Women scoop up dirty water from a polluted lake in Chad.
  • multilateral development banks
  • Climate
  • low carbon development
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How to De-risk Low-carbon Investments

  • low carbon development
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Green Climate Fund
  • climate finance
Two men clean solar panels in Kenya
  • low carbon development
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Green Climate Fund
  • climate finance
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Wind turbines in Germany
  • COP26
  • coronavirus
  • Economics
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How Domestic Budget Shortfalls Due to COVID-19 Impact Climate Action

  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • coronavirus
A man selling masks on a busy street in Varanasi, India.
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • coronavirus
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Confronting Simultaneous Climate, Public Health, and Economic Shocks in Developing Countries

  • Finance
  • coronavirus
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate impacts
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  • Finance
  • coronavirus
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate impacts
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Energy Access Is Key to Sub-Saharan Africa's Economic Recovery

  • Energy Access
  • Energy
  • coronavirus
  • electric grid
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • Finance
  • fossil fuels
  • health
  • renewable energy
A young South African woman holds up a cloth face mask next to a sewing machine.
  • Energy Access
  • Energy
  • coronavirus
  • electric grid
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • Finance
  • fossil fuels
  • health
  • renewable energy

To Build Back from COVID-19, Don’t Overlook Informal Workers

  • coronavirus
  • climate finance
  • climate impacts
  • poverty
Tamil Nadu street vendor
  • coronavirus
  • climate finance
  • climate impacts
  • poverty
Technical Perspectives

INSIDER: The World Bank’s Policy Lending Can Better Support Climate Action

  • coronavirus
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
People with backpacks and small children walk on a dirt road away from Antanarivo.
  • coronavirus
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
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3 Things to Know About ESG Fund Behavior During the Pandemic

  • coronavirus
  • Finance
  • Business
U.S. stock exchange
  • coronavirus
  • Finance
  • Business

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
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Fiji’s Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum (center, white shirt and tie) with the villagers from Navaceitavou
  • coronavirus
  • Climate
  • Finance
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Quantitative Easing for Economic Recovery Must Consider Climate Change

  • Climate
  • coronavirus
  • Finance
  • Economics
  • climate change
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  • Climate
  • coronavirus
  • Finance
  • Economics
  • climate change
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Key Investments Can Build Resilience to Pandemics and Climate Change

  • coronavirus
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • Finance
Travelers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, March 6, 2020
  • coronavirus
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • Finance
Initiatives

New Climate Economy

Most of women covered by NHLP now have access to fresh vegetables for their meals and can even supply their surplus to be sold in the local market.
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset