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    climate impacts COP20 Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities Insights
    Climate
    Insights
    February 26, 2024

    What Is "Loss and Damage" from Climate Change? 8 Key Questions, Answered

    • climate impacts
    • climate policy
    • Climate Resilience
    • climatewatch-pinned
    • COP28
    Rising water levels submerging a house as heavy monsoon rains cause major floods in Baco, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines on July 23, 2021.
    • climate impacts
    • climate policy
    • Climate Resilience
    • climatewatch-pinned
    • COP28
    Forests
    Latin America
    Insights
    January 6, 2023

    Indigenous Forests Are Some of the Amazon’s Last Carbon Sinks

    • land rights
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Equity & Governance
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Man in a canoe in Ecuador's Amazon forest
    • land rights
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Equity & Governance
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Climate
    Insights
    November 1, 2022

    5 Things Vulnerable Countries Need from Policymakers at COP27

    • Climate
    • climate impacts
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate Equity
    • Paris Agreement
    • paris rulebook
    • climate finance
    • COP27
    • climatewatch-pinned
    Ambulance driving through flood water on road in Mumbai, India, 2018.
    • Climate
    • climate impacts
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate Equity
    • Paris Agreement
    • paris rulebook
    • climate finance
    • COP27
    • climatewatch-pinned
    Climate
    Insights
    November 29, 2021

    It’s About Time: The Climate Community Invests in Securing Community Land

    • land rights
    • COP26
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    A large patch of lemongrass in the Chisapani Community Forest
    • land rights
    • COP26
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    March 25, 2021

    4 Ways Indigenous and Community Lands Help Fight Climate Change

    • Climate
    • Forests
    • National Climate Action
    • Paris Agreement
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • land rights
    • COP26
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • National Climate Action
    • Paris Agreement
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • land rights
    • COP26
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Climate
    Insights
    August 9, 2021

    5 Big Findings from the IPCC’s 2021 Climate Report

    • Energy
    • climate impacts
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate science
    • Paris Agreement
    • COP26
    Motorcycle on flooded street
    • Energy
    • climate impacts
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate science
    • Paris Agreement
    • COP26
    Climate
    Insights
    February 10, 2020

    5 Strategies that Achieve Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Simultaneously

    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • restoration
    • climate change
    • greenhouse gases
    • renewable energy
    • transportation
    • wetlands
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Reroroja village
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • restoration
    • climate change
    • greenhouse gases
    • renewable energy
    • transportation
    • wetlands
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Cities
    Asia Africa Latin America Oceania North America Europe
    Insights
    November 29, 2023

    The Future of Extreme Heat in Cities: What We Know — and What We Don’t

    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    • Urban Development
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate impacts
    • climate science
    • COP28
    Brick layers during in a heatwave in New Delhi, India
    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    • Urban Development
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate impacts
    • climate science
    • COP28
    Forests
    Asia Latin America
    Insights
    November 20, 2023

    Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are Using Satellite Data to Fight Deforestation

    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Man building a canopy blind in a tropical forest
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Freshwater
    Insights
    November 6, 2023

    5 Takeaways for Companies Setting Science-based Freshwater Targets

    • science based targets
    • water risk
    • Water Security
    • Aqueduct
    A person wearing a hat sits on the rocks overlooking Laguna Churup in Peru.
    • science based targets
    • water risk
    • Water Security
    • Aqueduct
    Freshwater
    Insights
    October 20, 2023

    The Next Phase of Corporate Sustainability: Addressing Consumer Water Use

    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • Water Security
    • water risk
    Washing dishes.
    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • Water Security
    • water risk
    Freshwater
    Insights
    August 16, 2023

    25 Countries, Housing One-quarter of the Population, Face Extremely High Water Stress

    • Freshwater
    • Water Quality
    • Aqueduct
    • water risk
    Women collect water near Arba Minch, Gamo Gofa Zone, Ethiopia,
    • Freshwater
    • Water Quality
    • Aqueduct
    • water risk
    Climate
    Latin America
    Insights
    June 19, 2023

    Ending Deforestation in the Amazon Can Grow Brazil’s GDP — But That’s Not the Only Reason to Do It

    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Climate
    Silhouette of a man standing in a river surrounded by trees in the Amazon rainforest.
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Climate
    Climate
    Insights
    May 8, 2023

    9 Charts Explain Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Country

    • climate change
    • climate impacts
    • climatewatch-pinned
    • greenhouse gases
    • GHG emissions
    • data
    • International Climate Action
    The main bazar in Paharganj, India, is full of people during the late afternoon.
    • climate change
    • climate impacts
    • climatewatch-pinned
    • greenhouse gases
    • GHG emissions
    • data
    • International Climate Action
    Finance
    Insights
    March 3, 2022

    3 Ways BlackRock Can Do Better on Sustainable Finance

    • Economics
    • Climate
    • climate impacts
    • Business
    BlackRock
    • Economics
    • Climate
    • climate impacts
    • Business
    Climate
    Insights
    February 27, 2022

    6 Big Findings from the IPCC 2022 Report on Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

    • Climate Resilience
    • climate impacts
    • climate science
    • climatewatch-pinned
    flooding in India
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate impacts
    • climate science
    • climatewatch-pinned
    Forests
    Insights
    January 20, 2022

    6 Ways to Ensure Ecosystem Restoration Prioritizes People

    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Three woman point to a map hung on the side of a building.
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Freshwater
    Insights
    January 18, 2022

    To Tackle Water Risk, Agribusinesses Need to Look to Their Supply Chains

    • water risk
    • agriculture
    • Aqueduct
    Crop irrigation in an agricultural field
    • water risk
    • agriculture
    • Aqueduct
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    January 11, 2022

    5 actions pour garantir que la foresterie communautaire marche en République du Congo

    • forest monitoring
    • Forests
    • forest products
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Sunset over the Sangha River in Bomassa, Republic of Congo.
    • forest monitoring
    • Forests
    • forest products
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    January 11, 2022

    5 Actions to Ensure Community Forestry Works in the Republic of Congo

    • Forests
    • forest monitoring
    • forest products
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Sunset over the Sangha River in Bomassa, Republic of Congo.
    • Forests
    • forest monitoring
    • forest products
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance

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