Tag: WRI

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

Countries agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) and ideally 1.5 degrees C ...

Congress recently approved at least $35 million for research and development of direct air capture technology and $60 million overall for ...

“Why did you choose to come to Antarctica?” my fellow passengers asked shortly after we exchanged names. So many answers ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is already affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans; it’s poised to get worse before ...

Global annual greenhouse gas emissions have grown 41% since 1990, and they are still climbing. While emissions dipped notably in ...

The Trillion Trees Initiative has garnered support from business and political leaders around the world. U.S. President Trump highlighted the initiative as ...

Secure land rights for women is recognized as critical for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly for eradicating poverty ...

Forests help stabilize the climate and provide many contributions to Sustainable Development Goals. And we have quite a bit of ...

To feed the world, we need to pay more attention to water. To nourish a growing global population, we’ll need to ...

In 2015, all the member countries of the United Nations unanimously committed to Agenda 2030, including Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, ...

Most scientific reports on climate look at changes that have occurred since the pre-industrial era, or since record-keeping began. But ...