Tag: WRI

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...