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Development Banks Are Starting to Spark Climate Action. Will They Complete the Task?

  • Climate
  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
  • development
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
Setting up a solar-powered water pump to pump groundwater in Ethiopia.
  • Climate
  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
  • development
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks

Ocean Carbon Removal Is Uncharted Territory. The US Can Help Change That

  • carbon removal
  • Ocean
  • Climate Governance
  • U.S. Climate
A scientist takes a soil sample to measure carbon sequestration in a seagrass bed.
  • carbon removal
  • Ocean
  • Climate Governance
  • U.S. Climate
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Can “Biodiversity Credits” Boost Conservation?

  • biodiversity
  • Forests
  • Climate
  • Finance
A herd of elephants crosses the Luangwa River in Zambia
  • biodiversity
  • Forests
  • Climate
  • Finance

Tracking Progress: Climate Action Under the Biden Administration

  • National Climate Action
  • Tracking Climate Action
  • Climate
  • carbon removal
  • climatewatch-pinned
President Joe Biden visits Flatirons Campus of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Arvada, Colorado.
  • National Climate Action
  • Tracking Climate Action
  • Climate
  • carbon removal
  • climatewatch-pinned
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Biomass Can Fight Climate Change, but Only if You Do it Right

  • carbon removal
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
A farmer examines an ear of corn with a farming machine behind him.
  • carbon removal
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
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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
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The Good, the Bad and the Urgent: MDB Climate Finance in 2022

  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
Women farmers in New Delhi, India, crouch in the fields in the summer heat.
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
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Tracking Climate Action: How the World Can Still Limit Warming to 1.5 Degrees C

  • GHG emissions
  • net-zero emissions
  • transportation
  • carbon removal
  • Food
  • conservation
  • climate finance
  • International Climate Action
  • National Climate Action
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • COP28
  • deforestation
People walking on a boardwalk with trees and wind turbines in front of them.
  • GHG emissions
  • net-zero emissions
  • transportation
  • carbon removal
  • Food
  • conservation
  • climate finance
  • International Climate Action
  • National Climate Action
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • COP28
  • deforestation
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7 Things to Know About Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration

  • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
  • carbon removal
  • COP28
Smoke billows from a coal power plant that uses carbon capture technology. Yellow flowers and trees surround the front of the factory.
  • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
  • carbon removal
  • COP28
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A construction worker walks down a path between rows of solar panels installed over water.
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • Clean Energy
  • fossil fuels

Lessons From California’s Carbon Dioxide Removal Policies

  • carbon removal
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Direct Air Capture
  • climate policy
A flagpole with three flags including U.S. and California, stands next to the dome of the California State Capitol building in Sacramento.
  • carbon removal
  • U.S. Climate Policy-Direct Air Capture
  • climate policy
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4 Priorities for Financing Early Coal Retirement in Developing Countries

  • Finance
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Climate Equity
A large coal power plant in the middle of a dense city.
  • Finance
  • Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Climate Equity
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What to Watch at the First Africa Climate Summit

  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • renewable energy
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • COP28
Rooftop solar panels in Kenya
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • renewable energy
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • COP28
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How Blue Carbon Can Tackle the Climate, Biodiversity and Development Crises

  • Ocean
  • climate change
  • carbon removal
  • nature-based solutions
Underwater shot of a mangrove root system in clear tropical waters.
  • Ocean
  • climate change
  • carbon removal
  • nature-based solutions
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5 Things to Know About Carbon Mineralization As a Carbon Removal Strategy

  • Climate
  • carbon removal
  • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
  • climatewatch-pinned
omani village and al-hajar mountain landscape in musandam peninsula
  • Climate
  • carbon removal
  • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
  • climatewatch-pinned
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How Companies Can Use Voluntary Carbon Markets to Help Protect Tropical Forests

  • deforestation
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • Finance
Houses sit among a misty tropical forest.
  • deforestation
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • Finance
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What It Takes to Attract Private Investment to Climate Adaptation

  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • adaptation
  • Paying for Paris
People walk down a heavily flooded market street in Lagos, Nigeria
  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • adaptation
  • Paying for Paris
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A researcher collects sediment from a patch of mangroves to study its carbon sequestration rate. Mixing ground rock with sand locks away carbon dioxide while also restoring eroded coastlines.
  • carbon removal
  • Climate
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What Does "Net-Zero Emissions" Mean? 8 Common Questions, Answered

  • climate science
  • carbon removal
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • greenhouse gases
  • COP26
  • COP28
Countries need a variety of solutions, including renewable energy and healthy forests, to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. Photo by Aaron Minnick/WRI.
  • climate science
  • carbon removal
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • greenhouse gases
  • COP26
  • COP28
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6 Ways to Remove Carbon Pollution from the Atmosphere

  • carbon removal
  • climatewatch-pinned
A forest in a fog.
  • carbon removal
  • climatewatch-pinned
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset