India currently faces a major shortfall in urban bus services, especially in smaller cities. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs recommends 60 buses per 100,000 people, yet many cities have ...

In 2024, with support from WRI and the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), Colombia’s Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development held a series of in-person workshops across ...

Newly planted trees line the Piassa-Mexico-Sarbet-Gotera-Wollo Sefer corridor in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Implemented during the first phase of the city’s corridor development project, the trees provide ...

In Mathare, Kenya, street vendors utilize umbrellas to stay cool. An informal settlement with structures mostly made of heat-trapping materials, residents face amplified impacts of extreme heat. Photo ...

Garretson School District in South Dakota found that their three electric school buses are running strong in the winter in below zero temperatures. The buses can travel up to 125 miles in optimal ...

Beijing’s Green Mobility-as-a-Service Journey Beijing has been piloting a Mobility-as-a-Service platform since 2019. By opening the app on a mobile device and typing in the destination, the platform ...

The project developed a model of targeted data collection and skills training that can empower cities to lay the groundwork for data-driven transportation planning. We undertook a full-scale data ...

One viable way of addressing the impact of extreme climate events is through Nature-based Solutions (NbS). NbS offer integrated and cost-effective strategies to address climate risks in cities while ...

The Deep Dive model, pioneered in Mexico City, is now helping other cities transcend individual projects to promote transformative city-wide change across systems. Photo: WRI México Achieving ...

Cities that embrace car-free days regularly show this is not the case. During Bogotá’s Ciclovía, major roads are closed to most cars on Sundays and public holidays, allowing cyclists, pedestrians and ...

In the Paris Agreement, Parties agreed that the Stocktake should inform countries in updating and enhancing their climate actions and support, and in enhancing international cooperation for climate ...

7 Ways Faith-based Organizations Can Help with Sustainable Urban Transformations WRI’s World Resources Report, Towards a More Equal City, found that addressing gaps in service provisioning, data ...