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DC’s Metro Closure Shows Why Creating Trust in Public Transit Matters
The Washington, DC Metro. Photo by RJ Schmidt/Flickr. Washington, D.C., one of the most powerful cities on Earth, has been thrown off-stride by a transit crisis. Starting March 16, the U.S. capital’s...
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Creating a Common Narrative for Financing a Sustainable Urban Future
Bogotá’s Transmilenio bus rapid transit (BRT) system shows how capital providers and city planners were able to finance and implement a low-carbon project at an unprecedented scale. Photo by Claudio...
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A New Coalition Will Prove Sustainable Cities Are Better for Growth, Better...
A view of the Mumbai Skyline. Photo by Vistyb/Flickr Cities are all about efficiency. It’s why they exist: to allow easy access to jobs, goods, services and ideas. However, in many countries, new and...
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Making Climate Resilience a Core Part of City Development
Buses at the Porto Alegre Central Market. Photo by Benoit Colin/WRI As home to more than half the world’s population, cities are some of the places most vulnerable to the impacts of a warmer world. Yet...
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Q&A with Ani Dasgupta: What’s at Stake for Cities at Habitat III?
A successful Habitat III and implementation of the New Urban Agenda means a successful future for cities, like Bangalore, India. Photo by Benoit Colin, EMBARQ / Flickr WRI is engaging in Habitat III –...
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Why Sustainable Urban Development Needs Better Finance
Representatives of Financing Sustainable Cities Initiative partners, from left: James Alexander, C40; Val Smith, Citi; Helio Lima Magalhães, Citi Brazil; Rodrigo Rosa, C40 and City of Rio de Janeiro;...
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Development Finance Institutions Have a Role to Play in Creating Sustainable...
Bus rapid transit in Florianópolis, Brazil. Photo by Dylan Passmore / Flickr By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world’s population will reside in cities, increasing the size of the world’s urban...
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India Can Save Up to $1.8 Trillion Per Year with Smart Urban Growth
A Mother and Her Child Wait to Board Ahmedabad’s Bus Rapid Transit System, Janmarg. Photo by Meena Kadri / Flickr India is at a crossroads, and how its cities develop in the coming several years will...
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Finding Your Place in the Global Urban Movement to Fight Climate Change
Paris, Pittsburgh and a host of other cities are increasingly organizing around climate change. Photo by Benjamin Stäudinger / Flickr For Pittsburgh, it’s a focus on improving air quality and creating...
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Reversing Mumbai’s Bicycle Decline Has Broad Implications for Quality of Life
Cars, motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians navigate traffic in Mumbai, India. Photo by Adam Cohn/ Flickr Bicycling is on the decline in India’s largest city; perhaps as few as 0.8 percent of a...
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Winner Take All? Richard Florida’s ‘New Urban Crisis’ Part of Growing Global...
New high-rises crop up next to the Kibera informal settlement in Nairobi, June 2017. Photo by Dennis Nyongesa/WRI Cities are growing rapidly in more places than ever before, but this growth is not...
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How Cities Can Harness the Good – and Avoid the Bad – of the New Mobility...
Downtown Hong Kong. Ride-hailing, car- and bicycle-sharing networks, trip-planning apps and other innovative services are disrupting mobility in cities around the world. Photo by Wall Boat/Flickr. This...
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How Can Countries Make Progress at COP23? Work with Cities
Ahmedabad, India. Cities must be key drivers towards a more sustainable, more equitable world – or we risk not getting there. Photo by Chetan Karkhanis/Flickr At this week’s climate conference in Bonn,...
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Toward Thriving Cities for All: Our 2017 Impact
Analysis by WRI Brasil helped lead to a new federal law in 2017 regulating the construction of 600,000 homes over the next two years. Photo by Assis Cavalcante/Prefeitura de Sorocaba 2017 was a...
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Transforming Transportation 2018: To Craft a Digital Future for All, We Need...
By harnessing the power of technology, new mobility services can lead to greener, safer, more inclusive and efficient transport for all. Photo by World Bank/ Flickr Exponential progress in how we...
View ArticleHelping Cities Make Better Decisions: Introducing TheCityFix Learn
Cities around the world face a crush of converging pressures. They are being asked to improve mobility, affordable housing, equity, and access to opportunity – all while accommodating more residents,...
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The View from the Bus: Better Transportation Means Better Lives
Pablo’s commute to school improved with Mexico City’s new Metrobus Line 4, cutting travel time and daily fares. Photo by Ari Santillán/WRI México It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the big picture when it...
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This One Chart Shows the Radical Changes Needed to Achieve Sustainable Cities
Manila, 2015. Cities need to reverse rising trends in poor housing, carbon emissions and sprawl. Photo by Andy Maluche/Flickr Rose Molokoane picked up the microphone at the World Urban Forum in Kuala...
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Financing Sustainable Cities: New Tools Help Leaders Get from Aspiration to...
Financing Sustainable City Initiative’s new platform provides decision-makers and city leaders with the tools, knowledge and inspiration to make cities more sustainable. Photo by Taís Policanti. By the...
View ArticleIPCC 1.5 Report: Cities Are the Best Chance to Get Climate Right
Amid the barrage of news about climate-related natural disasters and climate change summits, it’s important to recognize real inflection points—when there is truly cause to sit up and take note. The...
View ArticleNew Mobility is Coming to a City Near You – Will It Be Sustainable?
More than 300 new bike-share services were launched worldwide last year. Ride-hailing services such as Uber and Didi Chuxing together provide more than 45 million rides a day. Electric scooters are...
View ArticleAfter the Crisis: How COVID-19 Can Drive Transformational Change in Cities
Across the world, from Wuhan to New York City, cities are on the frontline of the unfolding COVID-19 crisis. Starting with overwhelmed heath care systems, cities are experiencing unprecedented strain...
View ArticleAni Dasgupta: Global Urban Policy Should Be on Par with Climate
“We need to get where climate policy is in urban policy,” said WRI Ross Center Global Director Ani Dasgupta in an interview with Urbanet. Speaking at the World Urban Forum last month, he noted that...
View ArticleInclusive Cities for a Changing Climate: Prize for Cities 2020-2021 Grand...
The WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities is the premier global award celebrating and spotlighting transformative urban change, and its $250,000 grand prize winner for 2020-21 has been announced:...
View ArticleHow More Equal Cities Can Be Climate and Development Solutions [PODCAST]
Cities are places of opportunity — and inequality. They are where more than half the world’s population will experience the impacts of climate change. They’re also part of the solution. This podcast...
View ArticleMore Equal Cities Can Help Bring Global Climate Goals Within Reach
While negotiations rage on, many world leaders have already left COP26 in Glasgow having said their piece about a low-carbon future for their country. No one can accuse them of being short on vision....
View ArticleBig Changes Are Needed for More Sustainable, Inclusive Transport
In the global conversation around decarbonizing transport, the spotlight on electric vehicles has never shone brighter. The EV revolution is underway, with consumers embracing them in record numbers...
View ArticleStories To Watch: A Deeper Dive Into Electric Mobility [PODCAST]
One of the biggest challenges of a transition to a low-carbon world is to change the way we get around. Electrifying transport is a key element of this, but it’s about far more than selling electric...
View Article3 Essentials to Make Climate Action Stick
The last decade was defined by commitments to tackle the climate crisis. It began with a slow trickle and ended in a torrent of countries, cities and companies announcing goals to end deforestation,...
View ArticleWater Is Key to Our Economic Future: Why Aren’t We Investing in it Like We...
Water ripples through many sectors of the global economy. Whether companies are in the business of hygiene or hamburgers, phones or pharmaceuticals, they all have water in their supply chain. It takes...
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