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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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STATEMENT: UN’s Global Stocktake Report Offers a Damning Report Card for Global Climate Effort

  • International Climate Action
  • COP28
  • adaptation
  • Integrated Transport
  • Finance
  • Food
  • Energy
  • International Climate Action
  • COP28
  • adaptation
  • Integrated Transport
  • Finance
  • Food
  • Energy
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What It Takes to Attract Private Investment to Climate Adaptation

  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • adaptation
  • Paying for Paris
People walk down a heavily flooded market street in Lagos, Nigeria
  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • adaptation
  • Paying for Paris
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3 Questions on Loss and Damage Funding to Tackle Before COP28

  • climate finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation
  • COP27
  • COP28
Two villagers in Mozambique push a bicycle through a flooded street.
  • climate finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation
  • COP27
  • COP28
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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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COP27’s Success Hinges on Loss and Damage Finance Discussions

  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • adaptation
  • COP27
A Pakistani woman cooks bread outside her tent after escaping floods.
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • adaptation
  • COP27
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Adaptation Finance: 11 Key Questions, Answered

  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • adaptation
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • COP28
Woman pumps water on a flooded street in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • adaptation
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • COP28
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What the World Can Learn from Fiji’s National Climate Finance Strategy

  • floods
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation
  • climate finance
  • Paying for Paris
A young girl wades through a flooded village after a tropical cyclone hit Fiji in 2016. Flood events and storm surges have become increasingly common in the country in recent years.
  • floods
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation
  • climate finance
  • Paying for Paris

Biden’s Budget Request: Does It Make Good on Climate Finance Pledges?

  • climate finance
  • U.S. Climate
  • U.S. policy
National mall in Washington, D.C.
  • climate finance
  • U.S. Climate
  • U.S. policy
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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

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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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
Researchers at NREL Energy Storage Test Facility
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • U.S. policy

US 2018 Budget and Climate Finance: It's Bad, but Not As Bad As You Might Think

  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • Finance
  • U.S. policy
  • climate finance
U.S. Capitol, where Congress' budget presents some complications for climate finance.
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • Finance
  • U.S. policy
  • climate finance
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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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Trump Budget Nickel-and-Dimes America -- and the World

  • Climate
  • U.S. policy
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
White House
  • Climate
  • U.S. policy
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund

At G20 Finance Ministerial, US Makes an Unforced Error on Climate

  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • U.S. policy
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
Rooftop Solar Panel array
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • U.S. policy
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
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6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2017

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • stories to watch
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • food security
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
Andrew Steer
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • stories to watch
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • food security
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
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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
Insights

Forest Fires, Water Security, and China’s Sustainability Challenges: WRI’s 11 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2013

  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • Business
  • Finance
New analysis reveals that 37 countries face extremely high levels of water stress, including Qatar (shown here). Photo credit: Neil Palmer/ CIAT
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Equity & Governance
  • Business
  • Finance