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    Climate
    Insights
    April 11, 2018

    Water Stress Threatens Nearly Half the World’s Thermal Power Plant Capacity

    • Energy
    • Water
    • Aqueduct
    • fossil fuels
    • water risk
    Kolubara A thermal power plant in Serbia.
    • Energy
    • Water
    • Aqueduct
    • fossil fuels
    • water risk
    Water
    Europe Asia
    Insights
    April 11, 2018

    It's Not Just Cape Town: 4 Shrinking Reservoirs to Watch

    • Aqueduct
    • drought
    • agriculture
    • mapping
    • Water
    • water risk
    Al Massira dam, Morocco
    • Aqueduct
    • drought
    • agriculture
    • mapping
    • Water
    • water risk
    Forests
    Insights
    March 20, 2018

    3 Ways Forests Can Solve the World's Water Crises

    • Water
    • Forests
    Forest upstream of Portland, OR.
    • Water
    • Forests
    Equity
    Africa
    Insights
    March 20, 2018

    Women Get Shortchanged in Commercial Land Deals—Despite National Commitments to Gender Equality

    • Equity
    • Sustainable Development Goal 5
    • Gender
    • land rights
    • IPLCS-Gender
    Woman in Tanzania.
    • Equity
    • Sustainable Development Goal 5
    • Gender
    • land rights
    • IPLCS-Gender
    Latin America
    Insights
    March 19, 2018

    Forests Will Protect Brazil, but Only If Brazil Protects Them

    • Forests
    • Water
    • natural infrastructure
    Sede do Projeto Conservador das Aguas in Brazil
    • Forests
    • Water
    • natural infrastructure
    Water
    Insights
    March 14, 2018

    5 Things Companies Can Do to Grow in a Water-Stressed World

    • Business
    • Water
    • water risk
    Ford's River Rouge factory.
    • Business
    • Water
    • water risk
    Equity
    Latin America
    Insights
    February 26, 2018

    4 Environmental Activists Are Murdered Every Week. A New Agreement Could Help in Latin America and the Caribbean

    • Equity
    • Sustainable Development Goal 16
    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • environmental justice
    • public participation
    Rally in a Colombian town
    • Equity
    • Sustainable Development Goal 16
    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • environmental justice
    • public participation
    Equity
    Latin America
    Insights
    February 26, 2018

    4 activistas ambientales son asesinados cada semana. Un nuevo acuerdo regional podría mejorar la situación en América Latina y el Caribe

    • Equity
    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • environmental justice
    Rally in a Colombian town
    • Equity
    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • environmental justice
    Water
    Insights
    February 20, 2018

    Water Shortages Cost Indian Energy Companies Billions

    • Water
    Tuticorin thermal power plant south of Chennai. (Wikimedia Commons/Ramkumar)
    • Water
    Water
    Africa
    Insights
    February 15, 2018

    3 Things Cities Can Learn from Cape Town’s Impending “Day Zero” Water Shut-Off

    • Water
    • Aqueduct
    • drought
    • mapping
    • natural infrastructure
    • water risk
    Cape Town, South Africa
    • Water
    • Aqueduct
    • drought
    • mapping
    • natural infrastructure
    • water risk
    Insights
    January 16, 2018

    Bad Air to Better Oceans: 6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2018

    • Equity
    • Finance
    • Ocean
    • Climate
    • Energy
    • Food
    • Forests
    • Water
    • Cities
    • Business
    • Economics
    • Aqueduct
    • stories to watch
    • Air Quality
    • climate change
    • restoration
    • international climate policy
    • fossil fuels
    • pollution
    • UNFCCC
    • U.S. policy
    • water risk
    • Equity
    • Finance
    • Ocean
    • Climate
    • Energy
    • Food
    • Forests
    • Water
    • Cities
    • Business
    • Economics
    • Aqueduct
    • stories to watch
    • Air Quality
    • climate change
    • restoration
    • international climate policy
    • fossil fuels
    • pollution
    • UNFCCC
    • U.S. policy
    • water risk
    Energy
    Asia
    Insights
    January 16, 2018

    40% of India’s Thermal Power Plants Are in Water-Scarce Areas, Threatening Shutdowns

    • Water
    • Aqueduct
    • mapping
    • power plants
    • water risk
    India power plant
    • Water
    • Aqueduct
    • mapping
    • power plants
    • water risk
    Energy
    Insights
    January 4, 2018

    Power Plants Use Water, But We Have No Idea How Much

    • Water
    • Aqueduct
    • fossil fuels
    • mapping
    • power plants
    • water risk
    Power plant in Germany
    • Water
    • Aqueduct
    • fossil fuels
    • mapping
    • power plants
    • water risk
    Equity
    Insights
    December 20, 2017

    5 Maps Show How Important Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are to the Environment

    • Equity
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • human rights
    • indigenous people
    • land rights
    • mapping
    • IPLCS-Community Land Rights
    indigenous people
    • Equity
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • human rights
    • indigenous people
    • land rights
    • mapping
    • IPLCS-Community Land Rights
    Cities
    Asia
    Insights
    November 22, 2017

    India’s Renewable Energy Push: A Win-Win for Job Creation and Electricity Access

    • Equity
    • Energy
    • poverty
    • renewable energy
    Solar engineers in Tinginaput, India
    • Equity
    • Energy
    • poverty
    • renewable energy

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