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Oct 6, 2013

Expectations are running high as the Board of the Green Climate Fund prepares for its fifth meeting in Paris this week. As the scale of the global climate change challenge…

Oct 4, 2013

The world continues to see the “costs” of fossil fuel use in the form of climate change impacts like heat waves, floods…

Oct 4, 2013

This post originally appeared on Forbes.com

An old Wall Street adage says “the market hates…

Oct 3, 2013

This post was co-written with Abigail Ofstedahl, an intern with WRI’s Vulnerability and Adaptation Initiative.

While working on tracking adaptation…

Oct 2, 2013

The Wayuu people in northern Colombia depend on shrubland for grazing their livestock. These herds serve as the Wayuus’ main source of income and food, and this is partly why they depend so heavily on the existence and condition of shrubland…