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India. How Water Challenges Threaten India’s Energy Security (World Resources Institute)

By Daniel Gajardo, Anupriya Goyal, Samantha Kuzma and Sahana Goswami The start of the 2021 monsoon season was a promising time for India’s farmers and water users. Heavy rains in...

Uncategorized August 29, 2021

Smarter Farm/Ecosystem Restoration. Smarter Farm Subsidies Can Drive Ecosystem Restoration (World Resources Institute)

By Helen Ding, Will Anderson and René Zamora Cristales Every year, governments give out $700 billion in agricultural subsidies globally. Though well-intentioned, these farm subsidies sometimes work against their core goal: boosting crop...

Uncategorized August 29, 2021

Food Systems Crisis – Our Food Systems Need an Overhaul. Here’s How the UN Food Summit Can Help (World Resources Institute)

Craig Hanson, Edward Davey, Liz Goodwin, Rebecca Carter, Sophie Wood and Janet Ranganathan write: The world faces a growing food systems crisis. The number of people who go to sleep...

Uncategorized July 26, 2021

USA/New Climate Economy – The Economic Benefits of the New Climate Economy in Rural America (World Resources Institute)

Devashree Saha, Alex Rudee, Haley Leslie-Bole and Tom Cyrs write for World Resources Institute: Rural US communities can reap significant benefits from investments in the new climate...

Uncategorized July 26, 2021

Climate Finance – Is Climate Finance Supporting Frontline Communities? Most Governments Don’t Know (World Resources Institute)

Tamara Coger, Ayesha Dinshaw, Nisha Krishnan and Brandon Pytel write: Climate impacts are here, now, and they are felt most acutely by local communities already disproportionately vulnerable to economic, health...

Uncategorized July 26, 2021

Climate Change – Tracking and Reporting Finance for Locally Led Adaptation to Climate Change (World Resources Institute)

Tamara Coger, Ayesha Dinshaw, Nisha Krishnan, Mitchell Cook, Anna Brown, Eric Chu and Emma Illick-Frank write for World Resources Institute: This working paper discusses how governments can use practical, flexible approaches...

Uncategorized July 26, 2021

USA – Climate Benefits the US Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Leaves Out (Jillian Neuberger, Katrina McLaughlin, Joel Jaeger, Carrie Dellesky, Lori Bird, Katie Lebling and...

On June 24, 2021, President Biden and a group of bipartisan senators announced a $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework (with $579 billion in new...

Uncategorized July 4, 2021

Latin America – The Benefits and Power of Assisted Natural Regeneration (Robin Chazdon, Bruno Calixto, Mariana Oliveira, Jared Messinger, Julio Alves, Miguel Calmon and...

When you think about restoring a deforested patch of land, you likely picture someone digging holes in the ground and planting seeds or saplings....

Uncategorized July 1, 2021

Sustainable Cities – Prize for Cities Awarded to Rosario, Argentina, for Improving Resilience and Equity Through Urban Agriculture (World Resources Institute)

WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities announced today that the grand prize for the 2020-2021 Prize for Cities has been awarded to Sustainable Food Production for a...

Uncategorized June 30, 2021

Ethiopia – Balancing Water Demands and Increasing Climate Resilience: Establishing a Baseline Water Risk Assessment Model in Ethiopia (Zablon Adane, Tinebeb Yohannes and Eliza...

Water is essential to sustainable economic growth and climate change adaptation. Ethiopia’s growth and development are vulnerable to water security risks. Despite being known...

Uncategorized June 30, 2021

USA – Designing the Next Generation of Federal Tax Credits for Low-Carbon Technologies (World Resources Institute)

Achieving emissions reductions to reach economywide net-zero emissions by 2050 will require sustained technological innovations and widespread deployment of emerging low-carbon technologies that are...

Uncategorized June 24, 2021

Climate Change/Food Security – Food Systems at Risk: Transformative Adaptation for Long-Term Food Security (Rebecca Carter, Namrata Ginoya, Richard Choularton, Tyler Ferdinand, Helen Ding...

This report examines how climate change is impacting agriculture and threatening national and global food systems, particularly in climate hotspots, and how these trends...

Uncategorized June 23, 2021

Argentina – Rosario, Argentina Uses Urban Farming to Tackle Economic and Climate Crises (Anne Maassen and Madeleine Galvin, World Resources Institute)

The residents of Rosario, Argentina’s third-largest city, are no strangers to crises. When the country’s economy collapsed in 2001, a quarter of Rosario’s workforce was...

Uncategorized June 22, 2021

Climate Change/COP26 – Challenging Climate Negotiations Deliver Limited Progress Toward COP26 (Yamide Dagnet, Nathan Cogswell, Lorena Gonzalez, Mima Mendoza and Nataniel Warszawski, World Resources...

Over the past three weeks, climate negotiators gathered online for the UN Climate Change Subsidiary Bodies sessions, aiming to make progress on details within the...

Uncategorized June 22, 2021

USA – Innovative US Bill Tackles Climate Change, Local Pollution and Economic Inequality (Kevin Kennedy , World Resources Institute)

Climate change has never been an isolated problem, but policies often treat it like one. For vulnerable communities in the United States, the impact...

Uncategorized June 18, 2021

USA – Seven Barriers to U.S. Business Leadership on Climate Policy and How to Break Them Down (World Resources Institute)

This paper identifies barriers that prevent corporations in the United States from advocating for climate policy so that companies can break them down and...

Uncategorized June 17, 2021

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