Tag: World Resources Institute

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

Leaders around the world are seeking to address the health and economic fallouts of the COVID-19 crisis, while also confronting ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) annually assesses the economic health of its 190 member countries, making recommendations to address macroeconomic ...

Climate change is already undermining food systems in many parts of the world, contributing to a rise in global hunger ...

Since early 2020, the world’s attention has been on the global coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic continues to put massive stress ...

The world’s ecosystems are under threat. Fires are turning biodiverse forests in California and wetlands in Argentina and Brazil into charred ...

Here’s a startling figure: 1.5 billion people will live in African cities by 2050, more than double the number today. ...

Agriculture and related land-use change generate one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Producing the food the world will ...

As the world reels from the financial blow of COVID-19, local governments in the United States are under huge pressure ...

A whopping 8 million tons of plastic winds up in the ocean each year, endangering wildlife and polluting ecosystems. This number is ...

Carbon pricing has had broad business support for over a decade. As a market-based mechanism, this is often the private ...

The global shift to a green economy could create 18 million jobs, with the potential to provide high-quality employment and livelihoods ...