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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
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COP26: Key Outcomes From the UN Climate Talks in Glasgow 

  • COP26
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • NDC
  • COP27
12/11/2021. Glasgow, United Kingdom. The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP, President of the 26th United Nations Climate Conference (COP26) hosts the 26th UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. The COP26 summit looks to bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
  • COP26
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • NDC
  • COP27
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10 Big Findings from the 2023 IPCC Report on Climate Change

  • adaptation
  • climate change
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate science
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • COP28
A girl wearing a long sundress pedals a bicycle down a flooded road..
  • adaptation
  • climate change
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate science
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • COP28
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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
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After COVID-19, 5 Ways India Can Pursue a Sustainable and Resilient Recovery

  • coronavirus
  • infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • Economics
  • renewable energy
  • low carbon development
Person riding motorcycle in India during coronavirus pandemic
  • coronavirus
  • infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • Economics
  • renewable energy
  • low carbon development
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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
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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
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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
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Understanding the Paris Agreement's “Global Goal on Adaptation"

  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • International Climate Action
  • COP28
  • adaptation
  • climatewatch-pinned
A group of people work to repair a low mud wall which helps control flooding.
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • International Climate Action
  • COP28
  • adaptation
  • climatewatch-pinned
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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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What Exactly Are "Nature-based Solutions”?

  • nature-based solutions
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • biodiversity
  • natural infrastructure
A woman reaches up to tend to a tree she's planted.
  • nature-based solutions
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • biodiversity
  • natural infrastructure
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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

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
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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
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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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Cities Need a Systems-change Approach to Build Climate-resilient Communities

  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Climate Resilience
Looking down at city buildings, some with green roofs and the street below.
  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Climate Resilience
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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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3 Questions on Loss and Damage Funding to Tackle Before COP28

  • climate finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation
  • COP27
  • COP28
Two villagers in Mozambique push a bicycle through a flooded street.
  • climate finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation
  • COP27
  • COP28