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STATEMENT: Countries Agree to Landmark Deal to Protect World’s Ecosystems

  • Forests
  • Ocean
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • restoration
  • biodiversity
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • Ocean
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • restoration
  • biodiversity
  • Equity & Governance
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STATEMENT: Biden Administration Commits to Protect 30% of U.S. Land and Ocean by 2030

  • Food
  • Forests
  • conservation
  • land use
  • biodiversity
  • fisheries
  • Ocean
  • protected areas
  • Food
  • Forests
  • conservation
  • land use
  • biodiversity
  • fisheries
  • Ocean
  • protected areas
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4 Opportunities to Shore Up the World's Coastal Ecosystems and Communities

  • infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • natural infrastructure
The coastal city of Sisal in Mexico.
  • infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • natural infrastructure
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INSIDER: Funding Climate Goals: 3 Lessons from Fiji

  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Economics
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Ocean
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  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Economics
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Ocean

6 Keys to Turn Coastal Resilience Plans into Action

  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation finance
  • biking
  • extreme weather
  • climate change
  • Ocean
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  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation finance
  • biking
  • extreme weather
  • climate change
  • Ocean
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The Impact of Organized Crime in Fisheries Extends Far Beyond the Ocean

  • sustainable development goals
  • fisheries
  • human rights
  • Ocean
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  • sustainable development goals
  • fisheries
  • human rights
  • Ocean
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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
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PODCAST: Seeing the Ocean as a Solution, Not a Victim

  • Climate Resilience
  • podcasts
  • Economics
  • Ocean
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  • Climate Resilience
  • podcasts
  • Economics
  • Ocean
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8 Ways to Rebuild a Stronger Ocean Economy After COVID-19

  • coronavirus
  • fisheries
  • Food
  • food security
  • Ocean
A fishing boat on a dock.
  • coronavirus
  • fisheries
  • Food
  • food security
  • Ocean
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Port of Funchal, Madeira
  • Climate Resilience
  • Ocean
Insights
illegal fishing
  • fisheries
  • Ocean
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Climate Change Poses an Existential Risk to Ocean Industries. Here’s How They Can Respond.

  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • fisheries
  • Ocean
Reef diver off Chagos Islands in Indian Ocean. Photo by Mark Spalding/Flickr
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • fisheries
  • Ocean

STATEMENT: Fourth National Climate Assessment Confirms Climate Change Will Affect All Regions and All Sectors of U.S. Economy

  • Air Quality
  • Water Security
  • fires
  • climate science
  • natural infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • health
  • climate impacts
  • water pollution
  • pollution
  • sea level rise
  • Ocean
  • Air Quality
  • Water Security
  • fires
  • climate science
  • natural infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • health
  • climate impacts
  • water pollution
  • pollution
  • sea level rise
  • Ocean
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RELEASE: Heads of Government Unite for the Ocean and People Who Depend on it

  • fisheries
  • Ocean
  • low carbon development
  • fisheries
  • Ocean
  • low carbon development
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
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  • climate change
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  • stories to watch
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Careers at WRI

  • Forests
  • Food
  • Freshwater
  • Ocean
  • Business
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • Food
  • Freshwater
  • Ocean
  • Business
  • Equity & Governance

Coastal Community Leaders Aim for Strategy on Rising Seas, Extreme Weather

  • U.S. Climate
  • climate science
  • climate policy
  • Climate Resilience
  • sea level rise
  • Ocean
North Charleston flooding from Hurricane Joaquin in 2015. Photo Credit: Ryan Johnson/Flickr
  • U.S. Climate
  • climate science
  • climate policy
  • Climate Resilience
  • sea level rise
  • Ocean
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