Blog Posts: governance

In many countries, the critical data governments need to address the climate emergency remains locked away or in unusable formats. New research from WRI and the Open Data Charter explores the many benefits of open data policies, and how to achieve them.

Like many coffee-growing regions, Costa Rica is already dealing with the impacts of climate change. But farmers in the Coto Brus region are finding ways to adapt.

Como muchas regiónes cafetaleras, Costa Rica ya enfrenta los impactos del cambio climático. Pero los agricultores de la región de Coto Brus están encontrando formas de adaptarse.

Coastal areas are at risk as rising populations and growing urbanization prompt significant losses and damages to coastal habitats, impacting coastal and climate resilience. A new paper by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy explores four opportunities to ensure sustainable and resilient coastal zones.

As the need for climate action becomes more urgent, the ocean is gaining attention as a potential part of the solution. A range of ocean-based carbon removal approaches could help capture and store billion of tons of carbon.

New WRI research shows that legal large-scale mining concessions and illegal mining areas overlap with more than 20% of Indigenous land in the Amazon.

Una nueva investigación de WRI muestra que las concesiones mineras legales a gran escala y las áreas mineras ilegales se superponen con más del 20% de la tierra indígena en la Amazonía.

The task of decarbonizing the U.S. economy is too big for any one level of government to tackle alone. The “new climate federalism” model proposes a framework for the federal, state and local governments to work together to address climate change.

75 years ago, the United Nations was founded on the belief that countries must work together to address global issues. As the world faces climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, some national governments are living up to this belief more than others — but crucial actors may be able to turn the tide.

Bangladesh, Colombia and the Philippines show how countries can start adapting to climate change now.