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Climate
Insights
October 12, 2021

Will COP26 Be a Success? That Depends on 4 Critical Questions.

  • COP26
  • NDC
  • net-zero emissions
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • Climate Resilience
Glasgow, United Kingdom. Governments and other actors must come to Glasgow determined both to dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions this decade.
  • COP26
  • NDC
  • net-zero emissions
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • Climate Resilience
Forests
Africa
Insights
October 4, 2021

Entrepreneurs Need Funding to Restore Africa's Degraded Land

  • restoration
  • agriculture
  • COP26
Caroline Kariuki, CEO of Kenya's GreenPot Enterprises, with one of her employees at a bamboo nursery. The company's bamboo helps farmers restore degraded land and make extra income.
  • restoration
  • agriculture
  • COP26
Forests
Africa
Insights
October 4, 2021

Les entrepreneurs ont besoin de financement pour restaurer les terres dégradées de l'Afrique

  • restoration
  • agriculture
Caroline Kariuki, CEO of Kenya's GreenPot Enterprises, with one of her employees at a bamboo nursery. The company's bamboo helps farmers restore degraded land and make extra income.
  • restoration
  • agriculture
Climate
Insights
September 27, 2021

Will Progress at Climate Week Spur More Action Ahead of COP26?

  • united nations
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • climate policy
  • National Climate Action
  • International Climate Action
  • COP26
  • NDC
  • Paris Agreement
Flags from different countries flying in front of the United Nations building.
  • united nations
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • climate policy
  • National Climate Action
  • International Climate Action
  • COP26
  • NDC
  • Paris Agreement
Energy
North America
Insights
September 27, 2021

How the US Can Address Legacy Fossil Fuel Sites for a Clean Energy Future

  • Clean Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • infrastructure
  • emissions
An abandoned oil rig in the middle of a desert.
  • Clean Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • infrastructure
  • emissions
Climate
Insights
September 22, 2021

What Vulnerable Countries Need from the COP26 Climate Summit

  • Paris Agreement
  • COP26
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • International Climate Action
A young girl collects water in the Banderbayla district within Somalia's Karkar region
  • Paris Agreement
  • COP26
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • International Climate Action
Climate
Insights
September 16, 2021

5 Issues to Watch at Climate Week 2021

  • climate change
  • climate policy
  • international climate policy
  • united nations
  • International Climate Action
  • climatewatch-pinned
A utility worker installs rooftop solar panels in Jiujiang, East China
  • climate change
  • climate policy
  • international climate policy
  • united nations
  • International Climate Action
  • climatewatch-pinned
Climate
North America
Insights
September 16, 2021

Why the US Also Needs Carbon Pricing in the Reconciliation Bill

  • climate policy
  • electric grid
  • carbon pricing
  • renewable energy
Xcel Energy's Sherburne County (Sherco) Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant, near Becker, Minnesota
  • climate policy
  • electric grid
  • carbon pricing
  • renewable energy
Climate
Insights
September 16, 2021

Are We on the Brink of an Electric Vehicle Boom? Only with More Action

  • transportation
  • net-zero emissions
  • Paris Agreement
Electric vehicle charging
  • transportation
  • net-zero emissions
  • Paris Agreement
Energy
North America
Insights
September 16, 2021

Funding for an Equitable Clean Energy Transition Already Exists

  • Clean Energy
  • Finance
  • environmental justice
  • Equity
Wind turbine at dusk, Columbia Gorge, Wasco, Oregon, USA
  • Clean Energy
  • Finance
  • environmental justice
  • Equity
Insights
September 3, 2021

How Can Brazil Protect the Amazon and Advance Climate Action?

  • Climate
  • deforestation
  • climate finance
  • biodiversity
  • forest monitoring
  • forest products
Amazon rainforest
  • Climate
  • deforestation
  • climate finance
  • biodiversity
  • forest monitoring
  • forest products
Business
Insights
September 1, 2021

6 Ways to Prevent Greenwashing and Risks from Trade Associations

  • Unlocking Climate Action
A "do not walk" sign lit up on an intersection with skyscrapers in the background.
  • Unlocking Climate Action
Water
Asia
Insights
August 26, 2021

How Water Challenges Threaten India’s Energy Security

  • water risk
  • renewable energy
  • power plants
  • drought
  • floods
Power plant in dry land
  • water risk
  • renewable energy
  • power plants
  • drought
  • floods
Climate
North America
Insights
August 9, 2021

US Infrastructure Bill Is Good, but Not Enough to Transform the Electricity Grid

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • electric grid
  • U.S. policy
Two people working on power lines
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • electric grid
  • U.S. policy
Climate
Insights
August 3, 2021

Will Recent Extreme Weather Spur More Climate Finance from Wealthy Nations?

  • Finance
  • extreme weather
  • floods
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • COP26
Train crossing road with high flooding
  • Finance
  • extreme weather
  • floods
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • COP26
Finance
Insights
July 28, 2021

The Good, the Bad and the Urgent: MDB Climate Finance in 2020

  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate change
  • COP26
Farmers check crops
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • climate change
  • COP26
Climate
Africa
Insights
July 26, 2021

Ethiopia's Updated NDC Underscores its Focus on Climate Action

  • National Climate Action
  • climate change
  • climate policy
  • NDC
  • COP26
A grassy landscape with two buildings, each painted with an Ethiopian flag, in the background.
  • National Climate Action
  • climate change
  • climate policy
  • NDC
  • COP26
Food
Insights
July 21, 2021

Our Food Systems Need an Overhaul. Here’s How the UN Food Summit Can Help.

  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • agriculture
  • emissions
  • GHG emissions
  • Climate Resilience
Four farmers harvesting and carrying boxes of strawberries in an open field.
  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • agriculture
  • emissions
  • GHG emissions
  • Climate Resilience
Climate
North America
Insights
July 19, 2021

Voting Rights Are Fundamental to Democracy and Climate Justice

  • Equity
  • climate change
  • environmental justice
A group of people sitting at desks separated by white dividers with the United States flag on them.
  • Equity
  • climate change
  • environmental justice
Climate
Insights
July 7, 2021

50 Organizations Committed to Locally Led Adaptation. Now What?

  • climate impacts
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
People standing behind a community garden.
  • climate impacts
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance

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