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After several record-breaking years, the U.S. clean energy sector faces a critical moment.Solar deployment and electric vehicle (EV) sales broke records in 2023 and 2024. Renewables now dominate new power generation capacity, while new domestic clean energy manufacturing facilities are popping up around the nation.| World Resources Institute
Forests managed by Indigenous people in the Amazon are a strong carbon sink, removing a net 340 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere each year, equivalent to the U.K.’s annual fossil fuel emissions. Meanwhile, forests outside of the Amazon’s Indigenous lands are collectively a carbon source, due to significant forest loss.| World Resources Institute
What has the Biden administration achieved in response to the climate crisis? Here's what has been accomplished, what is still a work in progress and where the administration has fallen short.| World Resources Institute
One garbage truck of clothes is burned or sent to landfills every second! This linear fashion model of buying, wearing and quickly discarding clothes negatively affects people and the planet’s resources.| World Resources Institute
The latest round of UN climate talks (COP28) yielded the first international agreement to transition away from fossil fuels. But it wasn't all good news: action on adaptation and climate finance were lacking.| World Resources Institute
New data on WRI's Aqueduct platform ranks the world's most water-stressed countries. One-quarter of the global population regularly use up their entire water supply.| World Resources Institute
New data reveals that forest fires are becoming more widespread, burning more than twice as much tree cover today as they did 20 years ago.| World Resources Institute
The latest IPCC report details the devastating consequences of climate change and highlights pathways to avoid dangerous and irreversible risks from rising greenhouse gas emissions.| World Resources Institute
Some impacts of climate change are so severe communities simply cannot adapt to them. That's where addressing "loss and damage" comes in.| World Resources Institute
The Electric School Bus Initiative aims to create unstoppable momentum over the next five years on a path toward electrifying the entire fleet of U.S. school buses by 2030.| World Resources Institute
Norway and China are among the top countries scaling electric vehicles at rates needed to meet international climate goals.| World Resources Institute
The Global Goal on Adaptation is meant to increase adaptation efforts worldwide and enhance support for the countries most vulnerable to climate change impacts.| World Resources Institute
The global standard for companies and organizations to measure and manage their GHG emissions and become more efficient, resilient and prosperous.| World Resources Institute
A lot has happened since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015. Our Climate Watch interactive chart explores how the world's top emitters have changed in recent years.| World Resources Institute
