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Clean Air Catalyst is a growing cooperative to help cities around the world reduce air pollution.
Everybody deserves the right to breathe clean air. Yet air pollution is choking cities and communities around the world: a staggering 9 in 10 people breathe unhealthy air.
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New report from the Coalition for Urban Transitions spotlights six emerging economies to demonstrate how cities can be engines of COVID-19 recovery, shared prosperity, and climate action
The Coalition's new report aims to inspire action by other national governments ahead of critical COP26 summit in Glasgow.
LONDON (March 17, 2021) — A new report from the Coalition for Urban Transitions finds that in order to accelerate COVID-19 recovery, achieve shared prosperity, and drive climate action, national governments must invest in cities to significantly accelerate decarbonisation and enhance resilience.
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The Clean Air Catalyst will work to accelerate clean air solutions in low- and middle-income countries. Photo by Saurav Purkayastha/Dreamstime
Nine out of 10 people are exposed to polluted air, according to the World Health Organization. Cities in the developing world are at the frontlines of this health and climate crisis.
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In Indian cities, road safety is a major area of concern for children and families in how they choose to travel to school. Photo by Adam Cohn/Flickr
WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities is partnering with 3M to improve road safety conditions for children in India through safer routes to school. The project will draw on the extensive experience of 3M and WRI to gain a deeper understanding of the road safety situation around schools in Delhi and Mumbai through data analysis and implement targeted interventions that embody the “Safe System” approach to road safety.
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Reimagining Safe and Resilient Mobility for Recovery
For years, Transforming Transportation has convened experts from around the world to discuss the most pressing mobility issues. In 2021, our all-virtual platform will make us more connected than ever.
WASHINGTON, DC (February 3 - 2021) – The World Bank and WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities invite the press to attend this year's all-virtual Transforming Transportation, one of the largest global events dedicated entirely to sustainable transport and development.
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The need to accelerate adaptation in cities and invest in solutions with multiple benefits is higher than ever.
The goal of 1000 Cities Adapt Now is to accelerate adaptation in 1000 cities by 2030.
ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands (January 25, 2021) — At the Climate Adaptation Summit 2021, the mayors of Miami, Paris, and Rotterdam joined WRI, the Global Center on Adaptation, and more than three dozen other cities, NGOs and governments to confirm the urgency to act now on climate adaptation, commit to support further development and implementation of the new 1000 Cities Act Now initiative, and call on leaders to support and facilitate this global program.
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1000 Cities Adapt Now aims to speed up climate change adaptation.
During the Climate Adaptation Summit 2021, the Mayor of Rotterdam Ahmed Aboutaleb will present the 10-year global program, 1000 Cities Adapt Now, to accelerate and scale adaptation measures in cities.
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Projects from Argentina, India, Kenya, Mexico and the United Kingdom chosen for demonstrated impact on climate risk, resilience and socioeconomic inequality
The WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities is the premier global award celebrating and spotlighting transformative urban change. This year's theme of climate and equity drew more than 260 applications from around the world.
WASHINGTON, DC (December 16, 2020) — WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities announced five projects as finalists for the 2020-2021 WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities today for showing how cities can address both climate change and inequality together.
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The culmination of over a year of capacity building and technical assistance led by WRI México to improve bankability of green infrastructure initiatives in the country
Members of TheCityFix Labs México cohort and WRI staff in February. Photo by WRI México
On November 19, six Mexican cities pitched their green infrastructure projects to an audience of more than 250 potential partners, funders, investors and government representatives from throughout Latin America.
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New commitment to WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities brings total gift to $100 million
Photo by WRI
WASHINGTON (December 7, 2020) — WRI is pleased to announce that business leader and philanthropist Stephen M. Ross has committed $63.5 million to support WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, bringing his total contribution to the program to $100 million, to make cities worldwide more resilient, inclusive and sustainable.