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5 Areas for Action to Set the Green Climate Fund on an Ambitious Path

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…

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

This post originally appeared on Forbes.com

An old Wall Street adage says “the market hates…

The Difficulty of Defining Adaptation Finance

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

While working on tracking adaptation…

How to Weave Ecosystem Services into Impact Assessments

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…

This post originally appeared on Guardian Sustainable Business’s Water hub blog.

Water risks such as floods,…

This post was co-written with Tara Shine, head of research and development at the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice.

It’s not every day that several former Heads of State, the leader of…

Yesterday, the Obama Administration released the sixth U.S. Climate Action Report (CAR6) for public review, to be submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on…

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Working Group 1 (WG1) portion of its fifth assessment of climate change.

World’s Carbon Budget to Be Spent in Three Decades

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) has delivered an overwhelming consensus that climate change impacts are accelerating, fueled by human-caused emissions….