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🏢 With building floor area expected to almost double by 2050, constructing zero-carbon buildings that prioritize housing and societal needs is crucial to promoting equity and limiting increasingly dangerous climate impacts.

More from #SystemsChangeLab ➡️ bit.ly/44iV5Sj

🌡️With global rising temperatures, we're experiencing heat more frequently and intensely. But how do we actually measure temperature? Can alternative metrics help better #climate action?

Find answers in our latest insights: go.wri.org/heat-metrics-tw

The US Can’t Build a Competitive Industrial Future without Centering Communities While decarbonizing the steel, cement and chemical industries to shift away from fossil fuels, equal attention must be focused on the people in nearby communities.

Decarbonizing heavy industry means cleaner air, safer water, and a stronger economy.

✅ Reduce emissions
✅ Cut local pollution
✅ Support workers and communities

Learn how in WRI Climate’s latest: bit.ly/3IjfrlN
#CleanIndustry #ClimateResilience

#WRIExplains: The Many Effects of Extreme Heat🥵

WRI examines the cascading impacts of heat in cities and offer tangible, scalable solutions that cities can use to develop effective, far-reaching strategies here👉 go.wri.org/urbanheat

Financing Nature Is Good Business. Here's How Companies Can Start. Companies increasingly want to invest in nature and nature-based solutions, yet many struggle to mobilize the finance. We break down how to get started.

💡 Investing in nature isn’t just good for the planet, it’s smart business.

Yet companies contribute just 18% of nature-positive finance. Our new research shows how businesses can move from planning to action — without big budgets or teams. Learn more:

Transforming the global economy means rethinking how we define progress. #SystemsChangeLab highlights 3 key shifts:

📊 New prosperity metrics
🏞️ Climate, nature & equity in analysis
🏛️ Policies aligned with people & planet

More: bit.ly/3Y23sOy

As we head toward #COP30, now is the time to raise the bar for government-led global climate cooperation.

WRI Climate offers a framework to assess progress, strengthen accountability, and make sure promises turn into real-world impact: bit.ly/46qvfxg

How can the world use more recycled materials, decrease overconsumption, produce resources efficiently, extract resources sustainably and ethically, and use products longer?

#SystemsChangeLab breaks down the changes needed to promote a circular economy: bit.ly/3XGBgRd

Nature based solutions (NBS) have a lot to offer sub-Saharan Africa, like:

☀️Reduced extreme heat.
💧Improved water security.
🌱New green jobs.

A new report from WRI shows where NBS has already taken root, and what's needed to scale: go.wri.org/nbsx

🌍 27 countries have submitted #NDCs

📊 New insights from WRI Climate & #ClimateWatch highlight the importance of the 2025 NDC cycle and the significant gap that remains to limit warming to 1.5 °C or 2 °C.

Explore the data and track progress: bit.ly/43n7rsb

Which daily choices have the biggest impact on climate? The top 4 actions:
🚗 Shift away from gas-powered cars
✈️ Reduce air travel
🌞 Improve home energy efficiency
🥦 Eat more plant-rich meals

Gordon Kraft Todd shares insights: bit.ly/3FZm8IC

❌ Food & ag aren't changing fast enough to ensure a healthy, sustainable future.

To get on track, we must:
🌾 Improve production
🥕 Cut food loss & waste
🥗 Shift diets

How do we make it happen?
Explore via #SystemsChangeLab: bit.ly/3SWc9qv

Governments and companies are pushing for greener procurement, but are these efforts cutting emissions? 🌍📦

Our analysis reviews 10 major green procurement initiatives and their real-world impact: bit.ly/4fgEGS7

🔥 What happens if we pass 1.5°C of warming?

Nearly a decade after the #ParisAgreement, record heat and new data show just how close we are to breaching this critical threshold.

Our new explainer breaks it down: bit.ly/407FBhk

Power = 25% of global emissions. To decarbonize fast, the world must:

🔋 Expand grids 7x faster
🏭 Phase out coal 7x faster
📉 Phase out unabated gas >10x faster

More actions via #SystemsChangeLab: bit.ly/3NWXDMb

The AdapTDR database is now available for download! This comprehensive database showcases the full benefits from 320 adaptation investments in agriculture, water, infrastructure and health across 12 countries between 2014 and 2024.

📥 bit.ly/4n68EvG

To cut emissions & boost resilience, we need better urban land use planning.

🏘️ Denser housing
⚡ Rooftop solar & energy access
🚇 Transit & safe streets
♻️ Sanitation & waste mgmt

Smarter cities = healthier, more livable ones.

More from #SystemsChangeLab: bit.ly/4kUZEY1

🇿🇦 Rudi Dicks, Head of the Project Management Office, Presidency of South Africa shares 3 lessons from their #CountryPlatform:

1️⃣Inclusive process
2️⃣Political support
3️⃣Implementation capacity

🔗 bit.ly/4lVu511

America can’t build a competitive industrial future without centering people. We must decarbonize with communities — not around them.

☁️Cancer Alley deserves clean air
🔒Steel towns deserve job security
📋Workers deserve a plan

Learn more: bit.ly/4eRROgf

🏢 Buildings are responsible for 18% of global emissions — and that share will grow without better insulation and clean energy systems.

#SystemsChangeLab explores how to shift to zero-carbon buildings and cut energy use: bit.ly/4lD9S0c

🌡️#NDCs have helped to lower emissions projections, shifting the world from being on track for nearly 4°C of warming to under 3°C. The current round of #NDCs will determine whether we can keep the 1.5°C goal within.

Read the full analysis: bit.ly/43n7rsb

🌳Forests: Earth's thermostat under threat🌍

New data reveals that extreme fires caused forests to absorb far less carbon than usual in 2023 and 2024, weakening their cooling effect.

More on what this means for the world's forest carbon sink 👉 go.wri.org/carbon-sinks

#WRIExplains

🚨 This week, the ICJ delivered its Advisory Opinion on climate change, declaring that governments have a legal duty to protect the climate. The ruling puts fossil fuels, weak NDCs & climate inaction on notice, opening new paths to justice for vulnerable nations. #ICJAO #ClimateJustice

🚌🚆Buses and trains emit about one-quarter the emissions per passenger of ride-hailing and half that of private cars. To stay on a 1.5°C pathway, urban rapid transit must grow six times faster than it is today.

Explore the data at #SystemsChangeLab ➡️ bit.ly/44KZMo3

EU-China climate statement shows joint resolve in face of US desertion While the two powers made no new commitments, experts say the cooperation agreement reaffirms their climate leadership ahead of COP30

David Waskow, international climate director at the @wriclimate.bsky.social, said stronger climate leadership from the two major emitters “is critically needed to rekindle global momentum after the US stepped away from the Paris Agreement again”.

What is a Country Platform? 🌍📋

Zeph Kivungi of CIFF explains it as a way for countries to align investment with their own development goals — with government at the center.

🔗 Find out more: bit.ly/4kNoJUL

Niue has submitted its 2035 #NDC 🇳🇺

Niue commits to reducing emissions by increasing the share of renewable energy to 80% of electricity by 2030. Explore the #NDCTracker from #ClimateWatch to gauge if new commitments meet these benchmarks ➡️ bit.ly/4o2vN2y

🇪🇺🇨🇳 Today, the European Union and China released a joint climate statement during a high-level summit in Beijing marking 50 years of diplomatic relations.

Read our full statement: bit.ly/3H0sXue

#EU #China #ClimateCommitments #ClimateLeadership #COP30

Today's economic model is putting Earth’s systems—and human well-being—at risk.

We need systemic change to align policies across sectors and stay within safe, just planetary boundaries.

More from #SystemsChangeLab: bit.ly/3Y23sOy

What is a Country Platform? 🌍
Laura Sabogal of E3G explains how #CountryPlatforms:
✅ Align finance + policy
✅ Support green value chains
✅ Must be country-led + inclusive

🔗Find out more: bit.ly/4kNoJUL