World Resources Institute (WRI) Updates

WRI and the World Bank Present Landmark Assessment of Nature-Based Solutions in Africa The assessment includes contributions from the African Development Bank**.** WRI also launches Green-Gray...

By Celine Salcedo-La Viña, Anamaría Martinez and Patricia Quijano Vallejos After years of being away from her ancestral village of Jotomana, Rosa Velásquez, a member of the Wayúu Indigenous group in...

By Ted Wong, Rocío Campos, Eric Mackres, Sara Staedicke and Michael Doust The world recently experienced a 13-month streak of record-breaking global temperatures. And as blistering heat waves punish...

July 9, 2024 By Susan Onyango, Hellen Njoki Wanjohi-Opil, Rebekah Shirley and Obadiah Mungai In Kenya and throughout East Africa, flooding this past April and May wreaked havoc, leaving a path of...

By Mercy Orengo As the first raindrops began to fall in March, Phylis David Kiveli, a farmer in Makueni County, Kenya, felt a wave of relief. The previous year had been plagued by drought. Many...

A new project will use solutions found in nature to improve the resilience of 2.2 million people in Dire Dawa (Ethiopia), Kigali (Rwanda), and Johannesburg (South Africa). WINNIPEG – A new 3-year...

Over the past several months, the climate pattern El Niño has disrupted different regions and sectors across the world. Zimbabwe recently declared a state of disaster, due largely to El Nino-induced...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...