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Investors: Sustainable Finance Demands More than Just Cutting Carbon

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Rampion Offshore Wind Farm in the United Kingdom.
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Insights from Big Data on How COVID-19 Is Changing Society

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Bike riders in New York City's Prospect park
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WRI’s Courage to Lead Dinner Envisions Sustainable Cities of the Future

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WRI Ross Prize for Cities
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Public Space for Recreation Is Good for Cities. Guadalajara, Mexico Shows Us 3 Reasons Why.

  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Sustainable Development Goal 11
  • Urban Mobility
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  • world resources report
Guadalajara, Mexico
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Too Many Cities Are Growing Out Rather than Up. 3 Reasons That’s a Problem

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Informal settlements at the edge of Mumbai, India. Photo by Johnny Miller/Unequal Scenes
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4 Ways Cities Can Build More Climate-Resilient Neighborhoods

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community workshop in India
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Stronger Than the Storm: 3 Lessons for Building Climate Resilience in Poor Urban Communities

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Landslide in Rio de Janeiro
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$70 Trillion Investment Pool Goes Greener

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Hurricane Maria near Puerto Rico
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The Climate Finance Architecture the World Needs

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Paris Climate Change Conference - November 2015
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US Climate Finance: A Great Deal for the Nation and the World

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School children in Kenya
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Estimating Climate Finance Mobilization Toward $100 Billion and Beyond

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Making the transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy is going to take a lot of investment, and the limited budgets of the public sector can’t tackle it alone. Photo by DFID/Flickr.
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4 Keys to Scaled-up Climate Investment in Brazil

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São Paulo , Brazil. Photo Credit: veebruar/Flickr
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What Does Environmental Democracy Look Like?

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  • environmental justice
  • renewable energy
Eight years ago, developers proposed a five-dam project on the Baker and Pascua Rivers in Patagonia, Chile. While they projected that the hydropower would produce 2,750 megawatts of power, the project would also flood 23 square miles of wilderness, jeopardizing the environment, local culture, and tourism of the region. Photo Credit: International Rivers/Flickr
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Learning from a “Living Laboratory”: 5 Lessons for the Green Climate Fund

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Tanzanian farmer with drought-affected maize.Climate change affects businesses, communities, government, and more, so it cannot be addressed without a range of actors stepping up. Photo Credit: Anne Wangalachi/CIMMYT
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Closing the Renewable Energy Investment Gap

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Wind farm in Palmas, Brazil. The Global Status Report gives other encouraging examples of the falling cost of renewables, especially in major emerging markets. Photo Credit: Carla Wosniak/Flickr
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UNEP’s New Access to Information Policy Falls Short of True Transparency

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UNEP describes itself as “the voice for the environment within the United Nations system…acting as a catalyst, advocate, educator and facilitator to promote the wise use and sustainable development of the global environment.” Photo Credit: UN/Flickr
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Tracking Climate Finance in Developing Countries: Easing the Way Forward

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  • UNFCCC
Kenyan farmers discussing changes in the climate and weather. The lack of an internationally agreed definition of climate finance makes it difficult to monitor and report climate finance flows. Photo Credit: CGIAR/Flickr
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Lessons from Mexico: Mobilizing Investment in Wind Power

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  • low carbon development
Thanks to government-led programs supported by international partners, Mexico installed 1240 MW of wind generation capacity by 2012. Photo credit: neusbordas/Flickr
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