Benchmarks for Success for COP28
By David Waskow, Rebecca Carter, Preety Bhandari, Chikondi Thangata, Natalia Alayza, Valerie Laxton, Edward Leo Davey, Nathan Cogswell, Jamal Srouji and Nate Warszawski Floods recently wreaked havoc...
By David Waskow, Rebecca Carter, Preety Bhandari, Chikondi Thangata, Natalia Alayza, Valerie Laxton, Edward Leo Davey, Nathan Cogswell, Jamal Srouji and Nate Warszawski Floods recently wreaked havoc...
By James MacCarthy, Jessica Richter, Sasha Tyukavina, Mikaela Weisse and Nancy Harris The latest data on forest fires confirms what we’ve long feared: Forest fires are becoming more widespread,...
By Ayesha Dinshaw and Stefanie Tye After decades of inaction, the world is finally addressing how to pay for the the mounting costs needed to help communities in developing countries contend with the...
25 Countries, Housing One-quarter of the Population, Face Extremely High Water Stress By Samantha Kuzma, Liz Saccoccia and Marlena Chertock New data from WRI’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas show that 25...
By Preety Bhandari, Nate Warszawski and Lorena Gonzalez Climate impacts are heating up in 2023. The month of July was the hottest on record for the planet. The havoc created by Cyclone Freddy in...
Locally led adaptation (LLA) is increasingly recognized as important in redressing the predominantly top-down approaches to channeling climate finance. LLA is a framework that facilitates devolution...
By Salome Gongadze Cities occupy just 3 percent of the Earth’s land, but account for most of the global energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many cities are also more vulnerable to climate change...
WRI India worked with Kochi’s local government to establish urban forests in flood- and heat-prone areas of the city. These green spaces are building communities’ resilience to the impacts of climate...
From country to city-level emissions, measuring adaptation vs. mitigation, tracking climate finance from the public and private sectors, understanding global climate goals and the action needed to...
By Nate Warszawski, Maria Lemos González, Chikondi Thangata, Preety Bhandari and Molly Bergen The conclusion of the Global Stocktake at COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates this December will...