The last few years have seen a massive increase in the number of electric vehicles on the road. While this is a positive trend, it will take a lot more than electric cars in high-income countries to create a global transition to decarbonize mobility. In the second podcast devoted to the topics of WRI’s Stories to Watch 2022, Nicholas Walton interviewed Ani Dasgupta, Kar López and Claudia Adriazola-Steil on what needs to happen to electrify transportation worldwide. Listen here.

India is on the cusp of considerable growth, both economically and in terms of its population, which will drive an expansion in infrastructure, energy consumption and resource use. Under business-as-usual practices, this growth could lead to much higher emissions, but new research shows that India can take greater climate action and grow its economy. In a new article, Deepthi Swamy and Varun Agarwal explore eight ambitious climate policies that would drastically cut the nation’s emissions, increase its GDP by up to an additional 1.5%, create up to 40 million new jobs and much more. Read on.

While crops are essential to feed the world’s growing population, a new study in Nature Food shows that current practices are not sustainable. Cropland has expanded by an area the size of Egypt in just two decades, often at the expense of forests and other natural ecosystems. Five major takeaways emerged from this study, including where this expansion is happening, how fast it’s happening and what impacts might occur without better global land use. You can see a visualization of the data by the Land and Carbon Land. Learn more.