This report analyzed nearly 300 nature-based solutions (NBS) projects across sub-Saharan Africa from 2012 to 2023. It offers a comprehensive overview of NBS in the region: what climate resilience ...

Clean energy continues to dominate new power capacity. For example, in 2024, more than 90% of all new electricity capacity worldwide came from renewable sources such as solar, wind, hydro and ...

This guidebook provides a practical approach for monitoring, reporting on, and verifying (MRV) portfolios of locally led land restoration projects. Local implementers and their financiers can use ...

I’ve watched in horror as Europe burns. Ferocious wildfires have swept through Spain, France and now Greece, scorching towns and forests and spewing toxic smoke. Hundreds of thousands of people have ...

This paper discusses the environmental, economic and social impacts of first-generation biofuels in the Midwest. It analyzes how policies promoting corn- and soy-based biofuels—often funded by ...

The UN’s Paris Agreement established three overarching goals: to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) and ideally 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F); to promote ...

When most people think of coastal ecosystems, they think of mighty mangrove forests and colorful coral reefs. But these ecosystems are only the tip of the iceberg — there’s more beneath the surface, ...

In this report, WRI researchers explore how rising demand for food, wood and shelter is squeezing land that’s needed for storing carbon and protecting biodiversity. This research uses new modeling to ...

The North American power grid is often referred to as “the world’s largest machine.” What may appear to be a haphazard collection of power plants and lines is actually an interconnected, highly ...

Cities and towns in the Mediterranean and the Middle East have long used white or light-colored roofs and walls to help keep people cool. Today, cities from Ahmedabad to Singapore are also turning to ...

Accelerating progress towards more equitable and climate-smart cities through resilient and affordable housing and basic services in informal settlements. Despite more people than ever living in ...

The Circular Food Systems for Rwanda project aims to transform Rwanda’s food system so that it is more circular and sustainable. Food is fundamental to our health, environment, society and economy, ...