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    Finance deforestation Equity & Governance green bonds Insights
    Forests
    Insights
    May 22, 2023

    How Companies Can Use Voluntary Carbon Markets to Help Protect Tropical Forests

    • deforestation
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Finance
    Houses sit among a misty tropical forest.
    • deforestation
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Finance
    Latin America North America Europe
    Insights
    January 26, 2023

    4 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2023

    • Energy
    • Clean Energy
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • U.S. Climate
    • stories to watch
    People dressed in warm clothes on bicycles carrying reusable shopping bags.
    • Energy
    • Clean Energy
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • U.S. Climate
    • stories to watch
    Climate
    Insights
    December 15, 2022

    What the World Really Needs to Adapt to Climate Change

    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • Finance
    • adaptation
    • COP27
    • adaptation finance
    • climate change
    • COP28
    Women transplanting rice in flooded paddy field.
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • Finance
    • adaptation
    • COP27
    • adaptation finance
    • climate change
    • COP28
    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
    Climate
    Insights
    July 20, 2021

    Is Climate Finance Supporting Frontline Communities? Most Governments Don’t Know

    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • climate finance
    • climate impacts
    • Finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • COP26
    People farming crops in the Moruese village
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • climate finance
    • climate impacts
    • Finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • COP26
    Finance
    Insights
    February 24, 2021

    Why Investors Bought the First Certified Green Bond to Protect Forests for Drinking Water

    • Forests
    • Freshwater
    • adaptation finance
    • green bonds
    • Finance
    • natural infrastructure
    • Water Quality
    Lake Maumelle in central Arkansas
    • Forests
    • Freshwater
    • adaptation finance
    • green bonds
    • Finance
    • natural infrastructure
    • Water Quality
    Cities
    Latin America
    Insights
    August 5, 2020

    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
    Finance
    Asia
    Insights
    July 29, 2020

    Will China Finally Block “Clean Coal” from Green Bonds Market?

    • green bonds
    • Finance
    • fossil fuels
    The People's Bank of China, a key player in financial guidance and sustainability. Photo by Flickr/bfishadow
    • green bonds
    • Finance
    • fossil fuels
    Finance
    Insights
    October 15, 2019

    So Far, Green Bonds Fail to Raise Much Money for Resilience. The Climate Resilience Principles Aim to Change That

    • adaptation finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • green bonds
    • climate finance
    • climate change
    Resilience bonds can fund things like climate-smart agriculture.
    • adaptation finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • green bonds
    • climate finance
    • climate change
    Finance
    Insights
    July 11, 2019

    Why Sustainable Forestry Is a Good Investment

    • Forests
    • Economics
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • climate change
    Senegal villagers
    • Forests
    • Economics
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • climate change
    Europe
    Insights
    June 21, 2019

    Conservation Finance Takes Off as the Netherlands Issues One of the Largest Green Bonds Ever

    • adaptation finance
    • green bonds
    • Finance
    • Freshwater
    A floodplain restored through the Room for the River program. Image: Dutch Embassy
    • adaptation finance
    • green bonds
    • Finance
    • Freshwater
    Insights
    January 11, 2019

    7 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2019

    • Finance
    • Climate
    • U.S. Climate
    • Forests
    • Cities
    • Business
    • biking
    • circular economy
    • stories to watch
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • international climate policy
    • Health & Road Safety
    California wildfire
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • U.S. Climate
    • Forests
    • Cities
    • Business
    • biking
    • circular economy
    • stories to watch
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • international climate policy
    • Health & Road Safety
    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
    Finance
    Insights
    December 19, 2017

    Restoration: One of the Most Overlooked Opportunities for Economic Growth

    • Forests
    • Economics
    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • Finance
    • Forests
    • Economics
    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • Finance
    Finance
    Insights
    January 18, 2017

    Save the Forests? There's Now an App for That

    • Forests
    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    Oil palm plantation
    • Forests
    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    Forests
    Insights
    September 7, 2016

    Forest Restoration Gets a Tiny Fraction of the Money It Needs. How to Fill the Gap?

    • conservation
    • deforestation
    • Finance
    • restoration
    • Forests
    People in India’s Nilgiri mountains
    • conservation
    • deforestation
    • Finance
    • restoration
    • Forests
    Finance
    Asia
    Insights
    January 8, 2016

    With New Guidelines, China’s Green Bond Market Poised to Take Off in the Year of the Monkey

    • green bonds
    • COP21
    • Finance
    • renewable energy
    • low carbon development
    Solar cell manufacturing center in Wuxi, China.
    • green bonds
    • COP21
    • Finance
    • renewable energy
    • low carbon development
    Food
    Insights
    January 23, 2015

    Globalizing Sustainable Development

    • Equity & Governance
    • Finance
    • climate change
    • Food
    • poverty
    • health
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    Today’s challenges go beyond health, food, and education. Photo by Gates Foundation/Flickr
    • Equity & Governance
    • Finance
    • climate change
    • Food
    • poverty
    • health
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    Climate
    Insights
    December 10, 2014

    Quick Perspective on UN Secretary-General’s Vision for a Post-2015 Agenda

    • Equity & Governance
    • Finance
    • climate change
    • development
    • human rights
    • climate science
    • poverty
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    Photo by UNDP via OXFAM/Flickr.
    • Equity & Governance
    • Finance
    • climate change
    • development
    • human rights
    • climate science
    • poverty
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    Finance
    Insights
    December 9, 2014

    Building Climate Equity and International Consensus from the Ground Up

    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • Energy
    • COP20
    • Climate Equity
    • development
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate finance
    • Equity & Governance
    • human rights
    • UNFCCC
    Scaling up renewable energy access; government installed solar energy in Sumba island, Indonesia. Photo by Asia Development Bank/Flickr.
    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • Energy
    • COP20
    • Climate Equity
    • development
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate finance
    • Equity & Governance
    • human rights
    • UNFCCC

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