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Nairobi City County Governor, Sakaja Johnson, unveils mural depicting impacts of transport pollution on Nairobi residents’ health. Photo: Clean Air Catalyst Against the backdrop of the Africa Climate Summit and Africa Climate Week, Nairobi hosted the UN Environment Programme’s fourth annual International Clean Air Day for blue skies event with Nairobi City County Governor, Sakaja…

Startups News: Most everyone who’s committed their career to solving the climate crisis comes to the field because they have something they want to save.

The island seeks to limit visitors without scaring off too many job-creating visitors with exorbitant taxes.

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Srinivas Alavilli, Fellow, WRI India, said, “WRI India is delighted with the steps taken by the government to integrate metro and bus for a better commute and by the active participation of corporate sector to encourage their employees to switch. As responsible citizens, we can take small actions that add to transformative change.”

Peer-to-Peer Exchange participants experiencing Mumbais zero-emission buses firsthand. Photo: UrbanShift In the Wadala neighborhood of Mumbai, representatives from Kigali, Durban and Mauritius filed into a low, yellow-walled room. They took their seats in rows equipped with desktop computers. Ordinarily, these desks would be filled with the staff responsible for tracking real-time performance analytics for Brihanmumbai Electric Supply…

OCTOBER 12 — This year is the 41st anniversary of the World Resources Institute (WRI). It was founded by Gus Speth in 1982 in Washington, DC. His vision was not of creating an...

CGIAR is hosting a virtual event to celebrate the publication of the Agriculture Chapter of the Breakthrough Agenda Report 2023. The event will showcase the recommendations of the 2023 report, present a deeper dive into the seven high-potential technologies it covers, and make the case for strengthening international collaborative action in accelerating sustainable progress in agriculture.

The partnership between the Innovation Pillar and the cohorts of forward-thinking businesses helped identify markets and methods to scale up climate solutions, in collaboration with leading universities, research institutes, incubators and accelerators and key industry players.

Awardees for the 2023 Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship have been announced, featuring research awards for informal transport, freight center locating and resilience benefits of electric vehicles.