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WRI’s Top Outcomes of 2013

  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • Business
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • food security
  • low carbon development
  • transportation
  • water risk
WRI measures its success through positive, on-the-ground change. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • Business
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • food security
  • low carbon development
  • transportation
  • water risk
Insights

5 Issues to Watch at COP 19, the “Construction COP”

  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
Addressing the needs of communities harmed by climate impacts that are difficult or impossible to adapt to--known as "loss and damage"--is one of the key issues up for discussion at COP 19 in Warsaw. Photo credit: International Rice Research Institute, Flickr
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC

U.S. Signals the End of Public Money for Coal-Fired Power

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • multilateral development banks
U.S. public financing for overseas coal-fired power is likely coming to an end. Photo credit: Mike_tn, Flickr
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • multilateral development banks
Insights

IMF Experts and Others Envision a World without Energy Subsidies

  • Energy
  • Finance
  • fossil fuels
  • renewable energy
When factoring in externalities, fossil fuel subsidies ring in at $2 trillion per year. Photo credit: Steven Straiton, Flickr
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • fossil fuels
  • renewable energy
News

STATEMENT: World Bank: Promote Clean Energy Sources to End Energy Poverty

  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • development
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • poverty
  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • development
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • poverty
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Helping Clean Energy Entrepreneurs Turn on the Lights in Poor Countries

  • Energy
  • Business
  • electric grid
  • Energy Access
  • renewable energy
  • Energy
  • Business
  • electric grid
  • Energy Access
  • renewable energy
Insights

Lessons from Indonesia: Mobilizing Investment in Geothermal Energy

  • Energy
  • Business
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
  • Energy
  • Business
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
Insights

Why Is China Investing So Much in U.S. Solar and Wind?

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Business
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Business
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
Insights

China Invests Billions in International Renewable Energy Projects

  • Energy
  • climate change
  • renewable energy
  • Energy
  • climate change
  • renewable energy
Data

The Development of the Low-Carbon Energy Sector Over Time

  • Energy
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
Research

Over Heating

Data

Thermal Power and Hydropower Plant Locations and Water Stress Level

  • electric grid
  • Finance
  • Freshwater
  • Energy
  • electric grid
  • Finance
  • Freshwater
  • Energy
Research

Measuring up

Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset