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...
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The Latest Data Confirms: Forest Fires Are Getting Worse
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,...
How Community-Led Funding Can Unleash the Potential of the Loss and Damage Fund
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...
Aqueduct 4.0: Updated Decision-Relevant Global Water Risk Indicators
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...
To Design the Loss and Damage Fund and Funding Arrangements, Look Back to the Green Climate Fund
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...
Niger + 2 more
Untapped Potential: The Role of Local Governments in Locally Led Adaptation. Experiences from the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) in Niger, Lesotho, and Cambodia
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...
Argentina + 4 more
Cities Need a Systems-change Approach to Build Climate-resilient Communities
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...
Kochi, India Adopts Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilience
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...
Overview of 100+ Climate Data Platforms
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...
World + 1 more
4 Actions Vulnerable Countries Need from COP28
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...
State of Climate Action 2022
The State of Climate Action 2022 provides a comprehensive assessment of the global gap in climate action across the world’s highest-emitting systems, highlighting where recent progress made in...
ACT2025: COP27 Call to Action - A Call for Enhanced Implementation of Adaptation Action
As part of a series that supports the ACT2025 Alliance Statement, this paper explains how progress can be made to enhance resources for implementing adaptation and proposes a set of recommendations...
Food Systems at Risk: Transformative Adaptation for Long-Term Food Security
REBECCA CARTER, RICHARD CHOULARTON, TYLER FERDINAND, HELEN DING, NAMRATA GINOYA, AND PARVATHI PREETHAN Foreword Food security, people, climate. These three words are inextricably linked; changes to...
World + 6 more
Seizing the urban opportunity: How national governments can recover from COVID-19, tackle the climate crisis and secure shared prosperity through cities - Insights from six emerging economies
Seizing the Urban Opportunity: New report launches Coalition’s call to action Today, the Coalition for Urban Transitions releases a new report ‘Seizing the Urban Opportunity’, which provides insights...
Global dialogue on responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis: Building Back Better Aligned to the SDGs and the Paris Agreement
Summary for Policymaking Overview An early glimpse of the future The COVID-19 crisis provides an early glimpse of how the climate and biodiversity crises will afect the world. The impacts of the...
Mainstreaming climate change adaptation in Kenya: lessons from Makueni and Wajir counties
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ▪ Mainstreaming adaptation—which entails integrating climate risks and actions into development planning across sectors and from the national to the local level—is essential for...
Bangladesh + 2 more
Building coastal resilience in Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Colombia: country experiences with mainstreaming climate adaptation
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Highlights ▪ Coastal areas are generally highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, and the need to reduce risks and build resilience is great. ▪ While a growing number of...
Ending conflicts over water: Solutions to water and security challenges
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Water insecurity throughout much of the world is growing as populations grow, economies expand, and climate change begins to impact the hydrological cycle. In many places, this...
Leveraging Water Data in a Machine Learning-Based Model for Forecasting Violent Conflict
ABSTRACT We present a methodology to forecast conflict (defined as organized violence resulting in at least 10 fatalities over a 12-month period) up to a year in advance using a random forest model...
Climate-Resilient Integrated Coastal Zone Management Performance Indicators
Coastal ecosystems provide a wide variety of goods and services in countries across the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. To maintain the value that coastal ecosystems provide in a...