🇨🇴 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
app.jobvite.com/m?35FFKmw0 #job
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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
app.jobvite.com/m?3fHBKmw8 #job
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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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We're hiring! GIS Research Associate I, Global Forest Watch, Forest Program. Learn more or Jobvite a friend. #nonprofitjobs #greenjobs
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📢 Upcoming event: Forest Data Partnership webinar. Join WRI, , and others for a discussion on “Aligning and Innovating for a Shared Data Ecosystem.”
📅 Mon, 6 Feb
⌚ 9-10am EST
📌 Register here: bit.ly/3wwG9hB
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Freetown 🇸🇱 is establishing a ‘💧 fund’ as a P3 to protect areas of forest that provide its water supply. The city has become a pioneer of #NatureBased investing in urban areas in Africa.
& ' John-Rob Pool for
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Making a change at 3️⃣ “super-leverage points” could reduce the climate effects of some of the 🌎 most emission-intensive sectors, and trigger faster changes in other parts of the economy. + in this new report report from & .
➡️ bit.ly/the_breakthrou
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In his first two years in office, has accomplished and set in motion key actions to address the #ClimateCrisis. Where has progress been made – and what needs to happen next?
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Increased adoption of #ElectricVehicles = increased strain on the electric grid -- unless consumers shift to "smart charging" technologies.
New research explores how and what consumers want. More: bit.ly/3GOEB7g
📷 by Andrew Robertson/ Unsplash
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Can we design #cities that serve both people 🧑🤝🧑 + planet 🌳?
#PrizeforCities' finalist / says yes✅!
Using a proximity-based plan, they've reshaped their city to 📉 pollution + 📈 livability. Learn more👇
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Interested in conducting research at the intersection of climate change and nature? is hiring a Research Analyst II, Natural Climate Solutions for the #SystemsChangeLab! Apply now! ⬇️
#GreenJobs #WeAreHiring #Jobs
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