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STATEMENT: UN Water Conference Delivers Some Game-Changing Commitments, Yet Far More Action and Finance Needed to Address Global Water Crisis

  • Freshwater
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  • Climate
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RELEASE: WRI and Partners Launch Fund to Help African Cities Build Water Resilience

  • COP27
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • urban water resilience
  • adaptation
  • Climate Resilience
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Lessons from Durban’s Approach to Water Resilience

  • Water Security
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  • urban water resilience
An overview of Umgeni River's Blue Lagoon in Durban, South Africa.
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5 Keys to a Climate-resilient Recovery After COVID-19

  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Water Security
  • food security
  • climate impacts
A farmer standing in a flooded field.
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Climate Change Is Hurting Africa’s Water Sector, but Investing in Water Can Pay Off

  • Climate Resilience
  • Freshwater
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  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • Water Security
  • natural infrastructure
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Improving water management in African countries can improve climate resilience. Here, Waretu Abera, Head of Ethiopia's Water Land Resource Centre, stands by a stream. Photo by Panos Pictures/Food and Land Use Coalition.
  • Climate Resilience
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  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
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STATEMENT: Fourth National Climate Assessment Confirms Climate Change Will Affect All Regions and All Sectors of U.S. Economy

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RELEASE: Global Leaders Call for Urgent Acceleration of Climate Adaptation Solutions

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  • drought
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Help for São Paulo’s Complex Water Woes: Protect and Restore Forests

  • Forests
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  • Climate Resilience
  • Water Security
  • drought
  • Cities
  • restoration
The Atibainha reservoir in Cantareira System in São Paulo during drought.
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Why Climate Change is a Security Matter

  • Climate Resilience
  • circular economy
  • climate change
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Mopti riverfront
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Forests and Wetlands Are Water Infrastructure. New Green Bond Helps Finance Their Protection

  • Freshwater
  • green bonds
  • infrastructure
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Forest watershed
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Bad Air to Better Oceans: 6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2018

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  • stories to watch
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What Does Water Have to Do with National Security?

  • Aqueduct
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  • Freshwater
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How Do You Know if Adaptation Is Working? Lessons from Kumbharwadi, India

  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • Freshwater
Field in Trimbak, Maharashtra, India
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Beyond Conflict, Water Stress Contributed to Europe’s Migration Crisis

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  • agriculture
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California Sleepwalks into Water Crisis

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  • drought
  • natural resources
  • U.S. policy
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California's drought has dragged on for four years. Photo by Yana Edwin Murphy/Flickr
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6 Stories to Watch in 2015: Global Climate Deal, Sustainable Development Goals, Rising Water Risks and More

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Andrew Steer presented 2015's Stories to Watch before a packed house at the Press Club in Washington, D.C. Photo by Bill Dugan/WRI
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India’s Watershed Development Boosts Food Security, Improves Livelihoods

  • Food
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  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • food security
  • low carbon development
  • water risk
India has long-battled its water scarcity issues throughout an approach called watershed development. Photo credit: M. DeFreese/CIMMYT
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Climate Change Adaptation in Rural India: A Green Infrastructure Approach

  • Climate
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  • natural resources
  • poverty
  • public participation
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6 Top Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2013

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  • Forests
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  • climate change
  • renewable energy
  • fossil fuels
  • U.S. policy
  • Climate
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  • climate change
  • renewable energy
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  • U.S. policy
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