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🔥 Record-breaking heat is striking #cities across Western Europe.
As the world’s fastest-warming continent, deadly heat waves are becoming the new norm for Europe. With air conditioning in only 2..
🔥 Record-breaking heat is striking #cities across Western Europe.
In a CNN interview with Max Foster, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities' Eric Mackres explained that passive cooling solutions..
Por toda a América Latina, países estabeleceram metas ambiciosas para restaurar terras degradadas. Muitos já estão bem avançados nesse caminho. Mas restaurar florestas em larga escala exige mais do...
En toda América Latina, los países han trazado metas ambiciosas para restaurar tierras degradadas. Pero restaurar bosques a gran escala exige más que ambición. Exige políticas y sistemas de datos q...
Across Latin America, countries have set ambitious goals to restore degraded land. Many are well underway. But restoring forests on a large scale requires more than ambition. It takes policies and ...
Consider the stats🔽
➡️Nearly 3 billion people lack access to housing that is both safe and connected to basic services like energy, water and sanitation
➡️Around 40% of the world’s population live..
Across the Global South, rapidly growing cities are facing rising heat, flooding, and water stress. But nature-based solutions offer a different path forward. Find out more: https://africa.wri.org/...
Join the WRI Polsky Energy Summit live from London on 21 May 2026 for a high-level discussion on what surging demand and geopolitical tensions mean for the global energy transition.
The session w...
Wildfires in Utah threaten drinking water, communities, and ecosystems. Here’s how the Utah Resilience Fund is helping protect the Weber Watershed and the Great Salt Lake through proactive forest r...
What does a decade of change look like? For us, it’s how we’ve grown, what we’ve learned, and how we’ve stood together through every moment, all driven by the strong belief that a better world - re...
🌳At a time when forests are increasingly under threat, it’s urgent to understand the regulation and ensure its full implementation.
#WRIExplains what the EU Deforestation Regulation is and answers..
AI tools like ChatGPT, navigation apps and streaming platforms feel effortless, drawing information seemingly from thin air. Yet the infrastructure behind them is anything but invisible.
#WRIExpla...
Carbon removal could help prevent the worst impacts of climate change.
#WRIExplains further: https://go.wri.org/carbon-removal
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Learn more about Utah wildfire risk reduction👉🔗bit.ly/UTFire
Across northern Utah, communities at extreme risk of wildfire are reshaping the landscape through proactive, collaborative restora
For years, farmers in Berbere Woreda in southeastern Ethiopia lived hand to mouth — not because water was scarce, but because they didn't have access to a reliable, affordable energy source. Althou...
The deepest concern in any economic transition is jobs. Few things are scarier than losing a job. It’s not just the loss of income—it’s a threat to our sense of identity and family’s future. This m...
For most people in the world, the economy is the number one concern. Some leaders fear that the transition will make them less competitive in global markets and slow down economic growth. Every co...
One concern is how the transition to an efficient, clean and resilient economy will impact the affordability of everyday goods like food, energy bills, and transport. For the past few years, cost-o...
For more than 20 years, WRI has identified annual “Stories to Watch.” These are the year’s moments, issues and decisions that we believe will shape the future trajectory of the world.
Stories to W...