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How to Grow a Trillion Trees
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In January, the World Economic Forum launched the Trillion Trees Initiative to protect and grow a trillion trees to fight climate change. Corporations and governments responded with ambitious commitments. Will the right trees get planted in the right places? Will they survive? Terramatch
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, a new online platform and mobile app, incorporates WRI research-findings on landscape restoration. It is connecting project proposals with funders to ensure that the rush of new plantings addresses such crucial needs as site preparation, maintenance, and measuring progress. Read More
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In Peru, coffee farmers are growing trees to protect the Amazon rainforest. Photo by One Tree Planted and AIDER.
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PODCAST: Seeing the Ocean as a Solution, Not a Victim
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WRI President & CEO Andrew Steer recently moderated an online discussion with members of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy. One theme: instead of thinking of the ocean as the victim, perhaps we need to see it as the potential solution. Read a summary or listen to the highlights in a new WRI Podcast Read More
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In the Distance: Clean Air Post-COVID-19
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The coronavirus economic slowdown has provided a fleeting glimpse of a clean air future—one with longer life spans, healthier crops and ecosystems, less warming, and more predictable rainfall. Jessica Seddon, WRI air quality lead, and co-authors Ken Wakabayashi and Beatriz Cardenas explain in a new commentary how fresh approaches to improving air quality can make that future a reality. One key: rapidly improving pollution source monitoring. Read more
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Navigating Converging Shocks from a Pandemic and a Cyclone: Lessons from Fiji
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While some of the world’s most advanced large economies struggle to contain the virus, the Pacific island state Fiji has had only 18 known cases and zero deaths. And it withstood the onslaught of Tropical Cyclone Harold, a category 4 storm, just as cases were peaking. Kaitlyn Smith, a WRI research analyst serving as a climate finance advisor within the Fiji Ministry of the Economy, shares the country’s lessons in resilience and explains how development partners can support countries like Fiji. Read more
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Webinar: The Link between Ocean Energy and Mineral Resources
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June 24, 2020
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Webinar: Getting to Net Zero: How Climate Action Can Accelerate COVID-19 Recovery
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July 01, 2020
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Webinar: The Case for the Ocean as a Dual Solution to Climate Change and COVID Recovery
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July 02, 2020
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