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.

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.

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.