The Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), one of the world’s largest dedicated funding facilities for climate change mitigation/adaptation projects,…
How can we make climate change adaptation measures more effective? I recently traveled to Dhaka, Bangladesh to discuss ways to address that very question.
I took part in the 7th annual…
This post was co-authored with Jenna Blumenthal, an intern with WRI’s Climate and Energy program.
As U.S. government officials take stock of…
This post originally appeared on the Climate Development and Knowledge Network’s (CDKN) website.
Having recently…
Water is a scarce resource in India, especially in the state of Maharashtra, where most rainfall is limited to the monsoon season from June through September. The Government of India has long…
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Experts say that developing nations could require more than $100 billion for adaptation each year. Developed countries say…
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p>WRI will host its 10th annual Stories to Watch event on Tuesday, January 15, 2013, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Dr.
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“Think globally, act locally” is a slogan that aptly describes what I witnessed last week at the 4th Annual Southeast Florida Climate Leadership Summit. At the event…
This piece was co-authored with Smita Nakhooda of the Overseas Development Institute, with inputs from Noriko Shimizu (IGES) and Sven Harmeling (Germanwatch)….
As negotiators in Doha move toward a new global climate agreement this week, politicians and planners in the United States are still busy absorbing…



