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4 Climate Stories that Will Define 2024

  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
  • International Climate Action
  • climate policy
  • Food
  • Clean Energy
  • electric grid
  • Cities
  • stories to watch
A family covers their heads with cloth for sun protection while walking near the Ganges river during a heatwave.
  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
  • International Climate Action
  • climate policy
  • Food
  • Clean Energy
  • electric grid
  • Cities
  • stories to watch
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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
Research

State of Climate Action 2023

Wind turbines on grassy field at golden hour.
Initiatives
In Rwanda, women’s cooperatives organize farmers to both improve agriculture and the environment.
Initiatives

Stories to Watch

Woman on stoop overlooking flooded street, with blue designed overlay.
Insights

How to Build a Circular Economy

  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • waste
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • natural resources
  • Climate
  • Food Loss and Waste
Two recycling facility workers next to bales of aluminum cans. Photo by Aaron Minnick | WRI.
  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • waste
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • natural resources
  • Climate
  • Food Loss and Waste
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4 Sustainable Ocean Strategies that Yield Economic Benefits

  • Economics
  • coronavirus
  • fisheries
  • Food
  • Ocean
  • restoration
Restoring mangroves in Thailand
  • Economics
  • coronavirus
  • fisheries
  • Food
  • Ocean
  • restoration
Insights

Collective Action at the Crossroads: What to Watch in 2020

  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Economics
renewable energy
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Economics
Insights

Making Food Production and Land Use More Sustainable Could Yield $2.3 Trillion in Economic Benefits

  • Food
  • Economics
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • health
  • restoration
Harvesting oil palm in Indonesia.
  • Food
  • Economics
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • health
  • restoration
Insights

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
Insights

By the Numbers: The Business Case for Reducing Food Loss and Waste

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • sustainable development goals
Recycled bread rolls
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • sustainable development goals
Insights

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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3 Steps for Tackling Food Loss and Waste

  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • Sustainable Development Goal 2
Wasted vegetables and fruits of a hypermarket from one or two days.
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • Sustainable Development Goal 2

6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2016

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • Green Climate Fund
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy
  • stories to watch
Andrew Steer
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • Green Climate Fund
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy
  • stories to watch

WRI Calls SDGs "A Bold New Agenda For International Development"

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
Insights

Why Africa Needs to Look to Its Cities to End Hunger

  • Cities
  • Food
  • food security
  • Urban Development
A street market in St. Lucia, South Africa. With the continent rapidly urbanizing, it’s critical that city leaders address urban food loss and waste in order to ensure sustainable development and end food insecurity. Photo by Steve Slater/Flickr.
  • Cities
  • Food
  • food security
  • Urban Development