David Wascow, director of WRI’s International Climate Initiative, names four outcomes necessary for President Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate later this month to be a success. Top of the list: U.S. commitments to cut emissions in half by 2030 and to boost international climate finance. Read More.

The global shift to a green economy could create 18 million jobs by 2030, but those jobs won’t automatically benefit communities that could lose 6 million fossil fuel jobs by that same year. Our new Just Transition and Equitable Climate Action Resource Center profiles 31 initiatives that show the way to a just transition that benefits everybody. Read more.

What to do about the tide of plastics polluting our land and waters? Governments around the world have found some success through bans, taxes and other initiatives. Yet there’s no global legal framework to align these efforts. Carole Excell, director of WRI’s Environmental Democracy Practice, has an answer: a new legislative guide to regulating single-use plastics published jointly by WRI and the UN Environmental Program (UNEP). Read more.