#ClimateChange, biodiversity loss, and food insecurity require a healthy ocean. Nevertheless, the ocean's health is declining.
identified 5⃣ key moments that will help restore and maintain ocean health in 2023. 👇
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I'm thrilled to be starting my trip to Africa in Addis Ababa!
has been working in Africa for over 30 years, supporting local partners and governments to advance inclusive transformation for people and nature. Looking forward to many more years of partnership!
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MT : Congrats to Todos al Parque, the Grand Prize Winner of #PrizeForCities!
Thank you to #Barranquilla 🇨🇴, for showing us how inclusive green spaces can transform 🏙️, boost employment and bring communities closer together.
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As #oil & #gas prices surged worldwide following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the dangers of relying on fossil fuels became clearer than ever. In this article, explains three solutions to boost our #EnergySecurity & more 👇
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🔴 HAPPENING NOW: Forest Data Partnership webinar. Join WRI, , and others for a discussion on “Aligning and Innovating for a Shared Data Ecosystem.”
📌 Register here: bit.ly/3wwG9hB
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We're hiring! Senior Project Associate, Contract Management - Operations. Learn more or Jobvite a friend. #nonprofitjobs #greenjobs
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. Dr. and share how international collaboration will be key to decarbonizing the industrial sector.
The good news is that momentum around industrial #Decarbonization has grown in recent years.
Read more 🇺🇸👇
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Upcoming event: Join TOMORROW -- Register today: bit.ly/3wwG9hB
📅 6 Feb, 9-10am EST
This webinar, hosted by WRI's Forest Data Partnership,
, and other partner organizations, will focus on their approach to reaching consensus around datasets.
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🇨🇴 Barranquilla’s parks are creating a new city. Learn more about how the 2021-22 #PrizeforCities winner is improving residents' well-being by creating nearly 1.5 million m2 of green areas thus far.
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New polling from , in collaboration with , finds that 54% of Americans are supportive of the #Justice40 Initiative and its goals to deliver #EnvironmentalJustice to underserved communities across the 🇺🇸 United States. ⬇️ Read more
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Congratulations to 2021-2022 #PrizeforCities Grand Prize Winner:
🥇 TODOS AL PARQUE 🥇
Barranquilla, Colombia 🇨🇴
In 2011, launched this program. To date, they have recovered over 200 parks and built 48 new ones. bit.ly/3DnW5q8
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The invasion of Ukraine caused not only a crisis in Europe, but a global energy crisis.
India and China continue to invest in renewables even as they seek + LNG and other fossil fuels, putting this issue at a crossroads this year.
Learn more #STW23 👇
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Is nature-based investing ready for take-off in Africa?
John-Rob Pool, Manager for in , talked to about Freetown 🇸🇱 becoming one of the pioneers of #NatureBased investing in urban areas in Africa.
Read more 👇
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From setting an emissions reduction target of 50-52% by 2030 to signing the #InflationReductionAct, has taken important actions to address #ClimateChange.
But what needs to happen next? More from ⬇️ bit.ly/3WDva0m
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2022 was a landmark year for U.S. #ClimateLegislation.
🏭 CHIPS & Science Act
🤝 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
📉 #InflationReductionAct
Can these laws spur a low-carbon transition that allows 🇺🇸 to meet its emissions-reduction goals?
More #STW23 --> bit.ly/3XHpiVq
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Including farmers’ experiences in reporting metrics is vital if measures aimed at boosting biodiversity, #FoodSecurity and soil health are to truly be #regenerative.
Find out how multistakeholder collaboration can unlock a #JustTransition.
🚜 bit.ly/3kfNxei
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Cement and steel production generate 16% of global carbon dioxide #CO2 emissions. The good news is that momentum around industrial #Decarbonization has grown in recent years.
🇺🇸 What are the next steps?
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A low-carbon transition that’s good for nature and people will require $5.2 trillion of #ClimateFinance by 2030. There is momentum around a new solution. In what direction should we go next? #STW23
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Last day to apply for 's job opening --> Research Analyst II, Natural Climate Solutions for the #SystemsChangeLab! #GreenJobs #WeAreHiring
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The Amazon 🌳 and the ecosystem services it provides are under threat. Since its fate depends largely on what happens in Brazil 🇧🇷, it found new hope with the re-election of .
What happens next? shared during #STW23 ➡️ bit.ly/3XHpiVq
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How can better monitoring and evaluation methods be created for collaborative frameworks to measure change at different levels (i.e. impact, outcome, output & input)?
A new guidebook by WRI and its partners helps answer this vital question:
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We're hiring! Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Manager- Managing for Results. Learn more or Jobvite a friend. #nonprofitjobs #greenjobs
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Do you know what the #Justice40 Initiative is? Most Americans don’t -- but when they learn more about its goals to deliver #EnvironmentalJustice to underserved communities, they support it.
Learn more from new polling from 👇
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🏆 TODOS AL PARQUE 🇨🇴 is the #PrizeforCities Grand Prize Winner.
This project, from :
👥 Co-created public spaces w/ community members
🌳 Provided safe + healthy green spaces
🏙️ Served as a model of inclusive city planning
Learn more: bit.ly/3XWNPFP
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🔴 STARTING IN 1 HOUR | Join for an interactive roundtable with leading urban practitioners to explore how to create transformative change during turbulent times. #PrizeforCities
🗓️ TODAY -> 9AM - 1 PM ET
➡️ Register now: bit.ly/3iRsDlt
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We're hiring! Human Resources Coordinator for Compensation and Benefit. Learn more or Jobvite a friend. #nonprofitjobs #greenjobs
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Join this upcoming webinar hosted by WRI's Forest Data Partnership, , and other partner organizations. Learn how their approach will build alignment of stakeholders to reach consensus around key datasets.
Register: bit.ly/3wwG9hB
📅 6 Feb, 9-10am EST
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🌟Celebrating our #PrizeforCities finalists🌟
🌳 Todos al Parque
🏡 Participatory Housing & Urban Development
💼 The Urban Wage Employment Initiative – MUKTA
⏰ The 15-Minute City
🚍 Zu Peshawar
Stay tuned for a 🏆 Grand Prize 🏆 announcement.
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Targeted changes on #ElectricVehicles, plant-based foods, #GreenAmmonia not only cut #GHGs but trigger positive change in the wider economy.
citing The Breakthrough Effect report from & . 👇
#SystemsChangeLab
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During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 40% of the EU's gas supplies were cut off. In response, 🇪🇺 imported more Liquified Natural Gas and expanded coal & nuclear power.
Will increased investment in 🛢️ derail the 🌍 clean energy transition? #STW23 👉 bit.ly/3XHpiVq
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The #15MinuteCity "has become a shared idea of the common good based on shorter distanced #cities...changing radically our urban lifestyle".
Learn how inspired a 🌍 shift to people-focused urban development. #PrizeforCities
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We're hiring! GHG Protocol Climate Policy Intern. Learn more or Jobvite a friend. #nonprofitjobs #greenjobs
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We're hiring! Program Manager - Mapping and Monitoring, Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration. Learn more or Jobvite a friend. #nonprofitjobs #greenjobs
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I'm heading to NYC for the #PrizeForCities award ceremony!
Each of the 5 finalists demonstrate bold ideas that can guide us towards more equitable, resilient and healthy cities.
These are approaches that every city in the world can learn from and deploy🧵
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#LandDegradation threatens the livelihoods of farmers like Gedif Tadele, 53, who lives near Merawi town in #Ethiopia’s Amhara region. A project aims to improve the region's governance of water resources, basin planning, & watershed health wri.org/update/restori
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Last week marked the second anniversary of the #Justice40 Initiative. A new article by outlines progress that has been made and what more can be done to deliver benefits of federal investments to underserved communities.
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Our 🏢, 🛣️ and other structures rely heavily on cement, concrete, and steel, but they come at a cost. Production generates 16% of 🌎 CO2 emissions.
The good news is that momentum around industrial #Decarbonization has grown in recent years. Learn more 👇
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Join for an interactive roundtable with leading urban practitioners to explore how to create transformative change during turbulent times. #PrizeforCities
🗓️ Feb 2 -> 9AM - 1 PM ET
➡️ Register now: bit.ly/3iRsDlt
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We're hiring! Consultant as Smallholder Group Facilitator (Districts in Riau based; 5 positions). Learn more or Jobvite a friend. #nonprofitjobs #greenjobs
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As the world’s largest historical #GHG emitter, the U.S. has a responsibility to take significant action to reduce emissions. How has done in his first two years in office?
grades the administration --> bit.ly/3WDva0m
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