This report reviews how governments can raise new funds and align existing finance with their climate commitments. It provide an overview of the landscape of instruments available to governments as they seek to finance their NDCs — from green bonds to regulatory interventions. It also looks at options for monitoring government success in shifting funds toward their commitments.

This report takes stock of countries’ latest NDCs and examines how these commitments have evolved since the Paris Agreement entered into force, identifying overall trends and pinpointing the elements where further action is needed. It finds that countries are making incremental progress on strengthening their NDCs, but what we really need to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement is urgent transformational change.

This report proposes a roadmap for zero emissions for Hong Kong's road transport sector, focusing on the bus, private car and freight vehicle segments.

The report estimates the socioeconomic impact of federal climate policies under three mitigation scenarios. These mitigation scenarios focus on tax incentives, climate-friendly infrastructure investments, and sector-based performance standards—many of which have been enacted in the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.

This report aims to help commercially driven partnerships, grant funders and investors more effectively drive transformative Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) action by highlighting new approaches to finance. It is a follow-on publication to A Time for Transformative Partnerships, a World Resources Institute (WRI) report that identified the key success factors of transformative partnerships.

This report shares journeys from three WRI Sustainability Initiative projects focused on waste and plastics reduction, bike and active commutes, and sustainability of WRI's endowment. Each journey is authored by a different project lead and shares the implementation challenges, data, and outcomes, as well as relevant research and case studies that informed the project design and development.

Compares the past and present domestic freight systems and relevant policy efforts in China and the United States, with detailed analysis of the shipping patterns of coal, iron ore, and motor vehicles in both countries.

The Real Urban Emissions (TRUE) Initiative conducted an emissions testing study in Warsaw in Fall 2020 to provide detailed information about the real-world emissions of the vehicle fleet and support the city’s efforts to address poor air quality. The study analyzed over 220,000 measurements from 147,777 unique vehicles collected using remote sensing technology.

Mass awareness and education through Innovation centres for electric mobility in India are key to accelerating adoption of EVs in India

A commitment to move to all zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales requires careful planning and coordination among many stakeholders. The members of the International ZEV Alliance commissioned and hosted four webinars on different aspects of 100% ZEV targets: the state of 100% ZEV targets, regulations to ensure the ZEV transition, working with cities to achieve ZEV targets, and the economic impacts of the ZEV transition.