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Can “Biodiversity Credits” Boost Conservation?

  • biodiversity
  • Forests
  • Climate
  • Finance
A herd of elephants crosses the Luangwa River in Zambia
  • biodiversity
  • Forests
  • Climate
  • Finance
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Unpacking COP28: Key Outcomes from the Dubai Climate Talks, and What Comes Next

  • Paris Agreement
  • Climate Resilience
  • Finance
  • adaptation
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Forests
  • COP28
  • climatewatch-pinned
Closing of COP28 climate summit in Dubai
  • Paris Agreement
  • Climate Resilience
  • Finance
  • adaptation
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Forests
  • COP28
  • climatewatch-pinned
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What to Watch at the First Africa Climate Summit

  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • renewable energy
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • COP28
Rooftop solar panels in Kenya
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • renewable energy
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • COP28

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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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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How Banks Can Accelerate Net-zero Emissions Commitments

  • Climate
  • Business
  • Paris Agreement
  • net-zero emissions
  • climate change
  • corporate sustainability
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  • Climate
  • Business
  • Paris Agreement
  • net-zero emissions
  • climate change
  • corporate sustainability
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What the New IPCC Report Means for Companies and Investors

  • Business
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate impacts
  • Climate
  • COP26
Church and wind turbines in Antwerp, Belgium
  • Business
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate impacts
  • Climate
  • COP26
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The Good, the Bad and the Urgent: MDB Climate Finance in 2020

  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate change
  • COP26
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  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate change
  • COP26
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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
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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
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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
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With Patchy Guidance, Companies May Have Climate Risk Blind Spots

  • Climate Resilience
  • Finance
  • Business
  • climate change
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  • Climate Resilience
  • Finance
  • Business
  • climate change

4 Climate Finance Priorities for the Biden Administration

  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • development
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • multilateral development banks
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  • 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
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World Resources Institute staff in a board meeting.
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • Finance
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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
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  • stories to watch
  • biodiversity
  • Business
  • climate change
  • Finance
  • Ocean