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Faces of Restoration is a series of videos and longform stories that our colleagues at WRI Brasil put together to highlight two things. First, it’s about what restoring landscapes involves — from growing trees to regenerating soil and landscapes — and the impacts it can have on everything from local economies to biodiversity and climate health. Second, it’s about the people affected by environmental challenges and the ways they are helping themselves and the land around them. The series features everything from a family living deep in the Amazon to a banker, and from farme...

Subscribe to the series on SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts. Food loss and waste is an enormous problem. It’s estimated that a third of the food produced is lost or wasted, something that costs the global economy nearly a trillion dollars each year. It also affects other issues, from food security, health and equity through to biodiversity loss, land use and climate change. If we are to feed the people of the world without destroying it — especially as the global population climbs towards a possible 10 billion people by 2050 — then food loss and waste must be tackled. This podcast looks at ...

Public transit ridership plummeted during the pandemic, but expanding public transit systems remains essential for fighting climate change and improving equity. Photo by Cory Hancock/IMF 2020 upended life as we know it. The coronavirus killed almost 2 million people and counting, while roughly 100 million people fell into extreme poverty. The world entered its worst recession since the second world war. Deep-rooted racial and economic injustices were exposed, while the impacts of the pandemic itself fell disproportionately on communities of color. And these crises played out against the e...

This episode of WRI’s “Big Ideas Into Action” podcast looks at locally-led adaptation. Locally led adaptation responds to local needs and conditions and are built for the longer term through investment in local institutions, ensuring that local people and their communities have agency over their adaptation priorities and how adaptation takes place. Subscribe to the series on SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts. Local communities that are on the frontlines of climate change impacts often lack a voice when it comes to making key decisions and implementing projects aimed at helping them. If they ...