Tag: World Resources Institute

Climate change already affects millions of Americans, from worsening asthma and other respiratory problems to spurring destructive and costly hurricanes, ...

We often hear how Brazil’s deforestation crisis threatens its major ecosystems and the people who live in them. That’s an ...

A new UN report finds that countries’ emissions-reduction commitments under the Paris Agreement are falling far short of what’s needed to prevent ...

U.S. Representative Frank Pallone, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, together with subcommittee chairs Bobby Rush and Paul ...

The record-breaking wildfires and hurricanes of 2020 may not stand out as the worst catastrophes in a year defined by compounding crises. But these ...

The ability to own land and access natural resources allows women to secure food for their families, increase their agricultural productivity and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic did not break the world, but rather revealed a world already broken. COVID-19 and the climate crisis ...

New analysis shows that just seven agricultural commodities — cattle, oil palm, soy, cocoa, rubber, coffee and plantation wood fiber ...

More than 100 billion tons of resources enter the economy every year – everything from metals, minerals and fossil fuels ...

As global carbon emissions continue to rise, the effects of climate change are increasingly felt through more severe storms, wildfires and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread health and economic hardship, and it’s occuring in parallel to a year of climate-driven ...

Exacerbated by COVID-19 and building on economic and climate challenges, a major debt crisis is brewing in the developing world. ...