Stories: Climate, Energy & Transport

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…

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….

The New Climate Economics

This post was written by Lord Nicholas Stern, president of the British Academy, and Felipe Calderón, former president of Mexico and a WRI Board member. It…

Low-carbon development has become the core theme of China’s urbanization. In fact, it’s one of the country’s key strategies to achieve its target of reducing carbon intensity…

New Climate Economy project led by former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón, with government, business and finance leaders from 14 countries