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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
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The Good, the Bad and the Urgent: MDB Climate Finance in 2021

  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate change
Restoration of a preserve in FL
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate change
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Investing in Green Index Funds? They Probably Aren't Aligned with the Paris Agreement

  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • Climate
As a construction worker installs solar panels onto a roof, wind turbines produce energy behind him.
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • Climate
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The Good, the Bad and the Urgent: MDB Climate Finance in 2020

  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate change
  • COP26
Farmers check crops
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate change
  • COP26
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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

4 Climate Finance Priorities for the Biden Administration

  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • development
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • multilateral development banks
View of the White House and surrounding Washington, D.C. streets from above.
  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • development
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • multilateral development banks
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In the Time of COVID-19, China Could Be Pivotal in Swapping Debt for Climate and Health Action

  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • health
A cityscape in Beijing.
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • health
Insights
World Resources Institute staff in a board meeting.
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • Finance
Insights

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
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8 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in the New Make-or-Break Decade

  • stories to watch
  • biodiversity
  • Business
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • Ocean
climate march
  • stories to watch
  • biodiversity
  • Business
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • Ocean
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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
Insights

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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PODCAST: How Green Fiscal Policies Can Help Save the Planet

  • carbon pricing
  • podcasts
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
solar panels
  • carbon pricing
  • podcasts
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
Insights

How the International Monetary Fund Is Waking Up to the Financial Risks of the Climate Crisis

  • Economics
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • fossil fuels
Extraction machine coal mine coal mining excavator
  • Economics
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • fossil fuels
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6 Questions on Climate and Development for the World Bank Presidential Candidates

  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • multilateral development banks
The World Bank Building in Washington, DC. Flickr/Aaron Webb
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • multilateral development banks
Insights

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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Crunch Time for the Green Climate Fund: 5 Issues to Watch at Critical Board Meeting

  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • Green Climate Fund
Manama skyline in Bahrain, where the GCF is set to meet. Flickr/Michele Solmi
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • Green Climate Fund
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Fixing the Crisis of Confidence in the Green Climate Fund

  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Green Climate Fund
Setting up solar street lighting in Tinginaput, India. Flickr/DFID
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Green Climate Fund
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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