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Waste amounted to 3.3 percent to global greenhouse gas emissions in 2022, with landfills the primary source. As climate change continues to pose an ever-looming existential threat to the world and…
Cities around the world experienced 5 percent increase in expenditures and 10 percent decrease in revenues during 2020, on average. Read the latest World Bank blog on the case of Pereira, Colombia…
Cities and communities in middle- and low-income countries increasingly are making adaptation an investment priority to safeguard citizens from climate extremes. Yet adaptation must be paired with…
While new housing & construction technologies can help cut waste and reduce GHG emissions, they are unlikely to make a dent in the global housing crisis, unless accompanied by four key changes…
Secure land rights play a key role in addressing the climate crisis. Yet billions of peoples’ rights to the lands and resources they live on and manage are unrecognized.
From Canada to Kenya, nearly every country struggles to provide housing for all its residents. It’s a goal that has become a moving target: Migration – both rural-to-urban and cross-border – is…
Medellin represents a remarkable story of urban transformation.
Also available in: Español | Français | 中文 Machine learning algorithms are excellent at answering “yes” or “no” questions. For example, they can scan huge datasets and correctly tell us: Does…
Volcán de Fuego in Guatemala, one of Central America’s most active volcanos, spews ash and lava flows in January 2018, just 70 kilometers west of Guatemala City. Image credit: NASA We live in an…
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