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Red Alert: 3 Strategies for Reducing Toxic Ozone Pollution

  • air quality
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5 Big Ideas to Address the Climate Crisis and Inequality in Cities

  • cities
  • climate change
  • sustainable cities
  • sustainable urban mobility
  • urban development
The DistritoTec project in Monterrey, Mexico is drawing people back to a denser, safer and livable inner city. Photo by Tecnológico de Monterrey
  • cities
  • climate change
  • sustainable cities
  • sustainable urban mobility
  • urban development

Collaboration on Nature-Based Solutions is Key to Resilient City Infrastructure

  • sustainable cities
  • sustainable cities initiative
  • urban development
Departments that work together on projects and use natural infrastructure, like the Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park in Singapore, can achieve a variety of benefits. Photo by Stefano/Flickr.
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  • urban development

Too Many Cities Are Growing Out Rather than Up. 3 Reasons That’s a Problem

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  • governance
  • poverty
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Informal settlements at the edge of Mumbai, India. Photo by Johnny Miller/Unequal Scenes
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Reaching 3 Global Goals Means Major Change for Cities

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3 Charts Explain One of the Most Overlooked Opportunities to Address Climate Change and Poverty

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  • sustainable development goals
Air conditioning units in Hong Kong. Flickr/Niall Kennedy
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  • sustainable development goals

Moving Beyond “Take, Make, Waste”: Developing Cities Show the Possibilities of the Circular Economy

  • Cities & Transport
  • economy
  • sustainable cities
  • urban development
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  • economy
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  • urban development

What Are the Environmental Costs of Valentine’s Day Flowers?

  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • pollution
  • water stress
  • agriculture
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Bad Air to Better Oceans: 6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2018

  • Forests & Land Use
  • Climate
  • air quality
  • climate change
  • forest restoration
  • international climate policy
  • oceans
  • oil and gas
  • Paris Agreement
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  • water risk
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  • Forests & Land Use
  • Climate
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  • climate change
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  • international climate policy
  • oceans
  • oil and gas
  • Paris Agreement
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We Know How to Save Millions from Dying on the World’s Roads

  • health
  • health and road safety
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  • sustainable cities
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  • health
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How Cities Can Harness the Good—and Avoid the Bad—of the New Mobility Movement

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Powering Cities in the Global South: How Energy Access for All Benefits the Economy and the Environment

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2016 Deemed the Warmest Year on Record. What’s in Store for 2017?

  • climate change
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  • extreme weather
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Towards a More Equal City

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Solving the Fresh Water Crisis

  • equity
  • gender
  • urban development
  • water
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  • equity
  • gender
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Fires Spread Across Indonesia as Parliament Approves Haze Treaty

  • air quality
  • emissions
  • fire
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • palm oil
  • pollution
  • timber
Forest fires in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo credit: Billy Gabriel/Flickr
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  • palm oil
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Fire Alerts Spike in Indonesia as Risk of Haze Crisis Returns

  • extreme weather
  • forests
  • governance
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
Fires burning in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, 2011. Credit: Rini Sulaiman/Norwegian Embassy
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  • Indonesia
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New Jakarta Declaration Aims to Strengthen Rights to Environmental Information in Asia

  • Access Initiative
  • access to information
  • access to justice
  • Asia
  • freedom of information
  • governance
  • human rights
  • pollution
The Jakarta Declaration aims to strengthen rights to environmental information in Indonesia, China, Japan, Mongolia, the Philippines, and Thailand. Photo credit: Luca Bruno/Flickr
  • Access Initiative
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  • access to justice
  • Asia
  • freedom of information
  • governance
  • human rights
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