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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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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

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

Developing Cities Need Cash. Land Value Capture Can Help

  • Cities
  • infrastructure
  • land use
  • development
  • Finance
  • Urban Development
People walk on and around an outdoor escalator at a train station in Shenzhen.
  • Cities
  • infrastructure
  • land use
  • development
  • Finance
  • Urban Development
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How Partnerships Can Turbo Charge Progress on the SDGs

  • sustainable development goals
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Finance
The inside of the European Parliament
  • sustainable development goals
  • Business
  • Economics
  • 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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What Makes a Partnership Transformational?

  • sustainable development goals
  • Business
  • Economics
Buses
  • sustainable development goals
  • Business
  • Economics
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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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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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Jump-starting Clean Energy Access for the World

  • Energy
  • Finance
  • development
  • climate finance
  • international climate policy
  • regulation
  • renewable energy
Solar home systems in Bangladesh. Photo by ILO/Flickr/
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • development
  • climate finance
  • international climate policy
  • regulation
  • renewable energy
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Getting It Right: A New Global Model to Tackle Poverty and Climate Change

  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Finance
  • climate policy
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
  • COP21
Photo Credit: U.S. Mission to the United Nations at Rome
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Finance
  • climate policy
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
  • COP21
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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
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International Development Finance Club Commits $89 Billion to Climate Finance in 2013

  • Climate
  • Economics
  • development
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • international climate policy
The IDFC can direct more finance to adaptation. Photo by University College London/Flickr.
  • Climate
  • Economics
  • development
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • international climate policy