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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
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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

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
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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

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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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.
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Why Sustainable Forestry Is a Good Investment

  • Forests
  • Economics
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • climate change
Senegal villagers
  • Forests
  • Economics
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • climate change
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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
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Restoration: One of the Most Overlooked Opportunities for Economic Growth

  • Forests
  • Economics
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • agriculture
  • Finance
  • Forests
  • Economics
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • agriculture
  • Finance
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Are Multilateral Development Banks Supporting a Low-Carbon Future?

  • Climate
  • Finance
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
India solar panels
  • Climate
  • Finance
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
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China wind farm
  • Finance
  • low carbon development
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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
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STATEMENT: Developed Countries’ Roadmap Shows Path to $100 Billion Climate Finance Goal

  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • low carbon development
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • low carbon development
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China Champions Green Finance in the G20

  • multilateral development banks
  • low carbon development
River in Hangzhou, China
  • multilateral development banks
  • low carbon development
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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
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New Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Starts Building a Green Future

  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
Indonesia slums
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks

How Uruguay Became a Wind Power Powerhouse

  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
Sierra de los Caracoles wind farm in Uruguay.
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
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Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Releases New Environmental and Social Standards. How Do They Stack Up?

  • climate finance
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
Redevelopment of Dachong Village, Nanshan, Shenzhen
  • climate finance
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
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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
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6 Things to Look for on Finance at the Paris Climate Negotiations

  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • COP21
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • UNFCCC
Harvesting season in Nyando climate-smart villages
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • COP21
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • UNFCCC