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    Climate
    North America
    News
    April 25, 2024

    STATEMENT: U.S. EPA Issues Strong Pollution Standards for New and Existing Power Plants

    • power plants
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Clean Power
    • power plants
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Clean Power
    Climate
    Insights
    May 25, 2023

    4 Shifts Needed to Create a Carbon-free Power System

    • GHG emissions
    • Climate Equity
    • climate change
    • power plants
    • renewable energy
    Wind turbines and solar power panels
    • GHG emissions
    • Climate Equity
    • climate change
    • power plants
    • renewable energy
    Freshwater
    Asia
    Insights
    August 26, 2021

    How Water Challenges Threaten India’s Energy Security

    • water risk
    • renewable energy
    • power plants
    • drought
    • floods
    • Aqueduct
    Power plant in dry land
    • water risk
    • renewable energy
    • power plants
    • drought
    • floods
    • Aqueduct
    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
    Climate
    Insights
    May 25, 2021

    What Is Carbon Lock-in and How Can We Avoid It?

    • GHG emissions
    • fossil fuels
    • infrastructure
    • power plants
    • National Climate Action
    • COP26
    A power plant with wind mills and a smoke column in the center.
    • GHG emissions
    • fossil fuels
    • infrastructure
    • power plants
    • National Climate Action
    • COP26
    Ocean
    Insights
    September 15, 2020

    Using the Ocean As a Tool for Global Economic Recovery

    • Economics
    • coronavirus
    • aquaculture
    • Ocean
    • renewable energy
    • restoration
    • wastewater
    Coastal communities, which heavily rely on the ocean economy, are among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic
    • Economics
    • coronavirus
    • aquaculture
    • Ocean
    • renewable energy
    • restoration
    • wastewater
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Insights
    September 15, 2020

    6 Keys to Turn Coastal Resilience Plans into Action

    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation finance
    • biking
    • extreme weather
    • climate change
    • Ocean
    A man wheels a megaphone mounted on bicycle along a neighborhood path in Bangladesh.
    • Climate Resilience
    • adaptation finance
    • biking
    • extreme weather
    • climate change
    • Ocean
    Climate
    Asia
    Insights
    May 29, 2020

    South Asia Confronts a Double Disaster: Cyclone and COVID-19

    • coronavirus
    • extreme weather
    Boats in Dhaka, Bangladesh
    • coronavirus
    • extreme weather
    Climate
    Oceania
    Insights
    January 10, 2020

    4 Things to Know About Australia’s Wildfires and Their Impacts on Forests

    • Forests
    • fires
    • drought
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    Australia fires
    • Forests
    • fires
    • drought
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Insights
    January 6, 2020

    Faced with Forced Relocation, the People of One Philippine City Designed Their Own Climate-resilient Neighborhood

    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    • climate impacts
    Pasig City
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    • climate impacts
    Climate
    Insights
    December 20, 2019

    6 Ways the Climate Changed Over the Past Decade

    • climate science
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • extreme weather
    • sea level rise
    Iceberg with hole
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • extreme weather
    • sea level rise
    Asia
    Insights
    December 2, 2019

    China Faces 4 Big Risks if it Continues Building More Coal Plants

    • Energy
    • fossil fuels
    • power plants
    • renewable energy
    • Energy
    • fossil fuels
    • power plants
    • renewable energy
    Climate
    Latin America
    Insights
    October 21, 2019

    Strengthening Disaster Preparedness in the Caribbean

    • Climate Resilience
    • extreme weather
    Damage in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian. The Caribbean needs international support to prepare for disasters ahead of time. Photo by All Hands and Hearts.
    • Climate Resilience
    • extreme weather
    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    October 10, 2019

    Pennsylvania is Joining RGGI. Here’s Why That Matters

    • Energy
    • electric grid
    • GHG emissions
    • power plants
    Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania
    • Energy
    • electric grid
    • GHG emissions
    • power plants
    Climate
    Insights
    September 18, 2019

    How Governments Can Make the Most of Insurance for Disasters like Hurricane Dorian

    • extreme weather
    • Climate
    Satellite view of Hurricane Dorian
    • extreme weather
    • Climate
    Climate
    Insights
    September 4, 2019

    Climate Disasters Are Getting Worse. Here's How Developing Countries Are Insuring Against Them

    • Finance
    • Climate
    • adaptation finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • extreme weather
    • Sustainable Development Goal 1
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • climate finance
    • hurricanes
    A child sits on water jugs provided after Cyclone Idai.
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • adaptation finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • extreme weather
    • Sustainable Development Goal 1
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • climate finance
    • hurricanes
    Climate
    Europe
    Insights
    August 22, 2019

    From Climate Researcher to Climate Spectator: Witnessing a Melting Arctic

    • Climate
    • climate science
    • biodiversity
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    The Arctic
    • Climate
    • climate science
    • biodiversity
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    Climate
    Insights
    August 19, 2019

    This Month in Climate Science, July 2019: Raccoon Explosions, Climate-friendly Elephants and More 100-Degree Days

    • this month in climate science
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • extreme weather
    • climate impacts
    Elephants
    • this month in climate science
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • extreme weather
    • climate impacts
    Climate
    Insights
    March 19, 2019

    This Month in Climate Science: First Climate-Induced Mammal Extinction, Color-changing Oceans and Stranded Sea Turtles

    • this month in climate science
    • climate science
    • biodiversity
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    • climate impacts
    Bramble Cay melomys
    • this month in climate science
    • climate science
    • biodiversity
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    • climate impacts
    Freshwater
    North America
    Insights
    February 22, 2019

    After 15 Years, EPA Updates Water Quality Trading Policy. It Could Do More.

    • Freshwater
    • water pollution
    • wastewater
    • Water Quality
    Wetlands like these in the Chesapeake provide cost-effective water quality services.
    • Freshwater
    • water pollution
    • wastewater
    • Water Quality

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