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    Finance
    Insights
    April 17, 2024

    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
    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
    Finance
    North America
    Insights
    January 28, 2021

    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
    Cities
    Africa Latin America
    Insights
    December 18, 2020

    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
    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
    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
    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
    Climate
    Insights
    June 15, 2015

    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
    Finance
    Insights
    December 11, 2014

    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
    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
    Climate
    Insights
    May 12, 2014

    3 Tales of Hope for a Low-Carbon Future

    • Energy
    • Forests
    • Business
    • Finance
    • climate change
    • deforestation
    • low carbon development
    • commodities
    At last week's "Ascent" meeting in Abu Dhabi, clubs of countries and companies committed to double the share of renewable energy and the pace of energy efficiency gains. Photo credit: CoCreatr, Flickr
    • Energy
    • Forests
    • Business
    • Finance
    • climate change
    • deforestation
    • low carbon development
    • commodities
    Climate
    Insights
    December 23, 2013

    5 Things We Learned in 2013 that Could Move the Needle on Sustainability

    • Energy
    • Food
    • Forests
    • Freshwater
    • Equity & Governance
    • Business
    • Finance
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • deforestation
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • water risk
    New research shows that the world loses 50 soccer fields' of forest every minute of every day. Photo credit: Daniel Murdiyarso, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
    • Energy
    • Food
    • Forests
    • Freshwater
    • Equity & Governance
    • Business
    • Finance
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • deforestation
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • water risk
    Finance
    Insights
    September 13, 2013

    3 Important Messages from this Week’s UNFCCC Workshop on Scaling Up Climate Finance

    • development
    • climate finance
    • climate change
    • low carbon development
    • UNFCCC
    Developing countries need climate finance to mitigate climate change and adapt to its impacts. Photo credit: Solar Electric Light Fund, Flickr
    • development
    • climate finance
    • climate change
    • low carbon development
    • UNFCCC

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