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Community Benefits and Sustainable Development: Lessons from Detroit’s Community Benefits Ordinance

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Audio Summaries of WRI Publications

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WRI/Yale Prize For Cities Learning Event 2024

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Cities All Staff Meeting Overview September 2024

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Prize for Cities Learning Event WRI/Yale

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Cities All Staff Meeting Overview March 2024

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Theory of Change Interactive Course

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Datos en la Planificación Urbana

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Facilitation Aids and Techniques

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Facilitation Skills Training Overview Online Course

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November 2023 WRI Network Project Updates

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Air Quality – CanAIRy Learn 1 tech talk CanAIRy Alert Forecast Overview

The first technical talk of CanAIRy Learn: Air Quality Community of Practice was moderated by Ana Cecilia Perales (Technical-Administrative Coordinator for Air Quality, WRI Mexico). In this session, the new stage of the project and its website: canairyalert.org were presented, as well as George Mwaniki (Air Quality Leader, WRI Africa) talked about the two key...

Sete transformações para cidades mais equitativas e sustentáveis curso

Sete transformações para cidades mais equitativas e sustentáveis

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Using Data in Urban Planning Course

Using Data in Urban Planning

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Framing the opportunity

Framing the Opportunity

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Seven Transformations for More Equitable and Sustainable Cities

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Theory of Change

Theory of Change

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Strategy Development

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Proposal Development

Proposal Development

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Findings and Lessons Learned from the CityAQ Project, Air Quality Forecasts (English version)

Findings and Lessons Learned from the CityAQ Project, Air Quality Forecasts (English version)

The World Resources Institute Mexico (WRI) in collaboration with the Office of Assimilation and Global Modeling of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (GMAO-NASA), invite you to the virtual seminar Findings and lessons learned from the project CityAQ, air quality forecasts, which will address the CityAQ project, which provided a reliable air quality forecast in...

Overcoming Barriers to Financing Sustainable Urban Infrastructure [Draft Version]

Overcoming Barriers to Financing Sustainable Urban Infrastructure [Draft Version]

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Introduction to Communications at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

Introduction to Communications at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

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An Introduction to Research at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

An Introduction to Research at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

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Urban Forests for Healthier Cities: Policy, Planning, Regulations, and Institutional Arrangements

Urban Forests for Healthier Cities: Policy, Planning, Regulations, and Institutional Arrangements

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Social Equity Considerations for Cities' Decision Making Related to Inner, Nearby, and Faraway Forests

Social Equity Considerations for Cities’ Decision Making Related to Inner, Nearby, and Faraway Forests

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Reducing Demand for Vehicle Trips in Cities

Reducing Demand for Vehicle Trips in Cities

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How Cities can Engage Organizations in Improving Urban Mobility

How Cities can Engage Organizations in Improving Urban Mobility

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City Climate Action Planning

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BETA: Social Equity Considerations for Cities' Decision Making Related to Inner, Nearby, and Faraway Forests

BETA: Social Equity Considerations for Cities’ Decision Making Related to Inner, Nearby, and Faraway Forests

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AQ Tech Talk: Forecast and Impacts of Saharan Dust

AQ Tech Talk: Forecast and Impacts of Saharan Dust

Every year in the summer, dust particulates from the Saharan Desert are suspended by strong winds and carried across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Commonly known as the Saharan Dust Storm (or Saharan Air Layer), this Trans-Atlantic event brings unhealthy levels of PM 2.5 and PM 10 to some cities, changes to...

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning Session 3: Turning Scenarios into Policies

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning Session 3: Turning Scenarios into Policies

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning is a series of three webinars examining data-backed scenario planning as a tool for structuring stakeholder-centered planning for clean energy policies and programs in cities. Produced and presented by WRI, Greenlink Analytics, and USDN in spring 2020, the series is part of a larger training program which includes provision of data and...

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning Session 2: Defining and Modeling Scenarios

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning Session 2: Defining and Modeling Scenarios

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning is a series of three webinars examining data-backed scenario planning as a tool for structuring stakeholder-centered planning for clean energy policies and programs in cities. Produced and presented by WRI, Greenlink Analytics, and USDN in spring 2020, the series is part of a larger training program which includes provision of data and...

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning Session 1: Stage-setting and Baseline Data

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning Session 1: Stage-setting and Baseline Data

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning is a series of three webinars examining data-backed scenario planning as a tool for structuring stakeholder-centered planning for clean energy policies and programs in cities. Produced and presented by WRI, Greenlink Analytics, and USDN in spring 2020, the series is part of a larger training program which includes provision of data and...

Towards a More Equal City: World Resources Report Update and COVID-19 Connections

Towards a More Equal City: World Resources Report Update and COVID-19 Connections

The coronavirus pandemic has brought into sharp focus many underlying economic and social fragilities in urban areas. This kind of global crisis exacerbates existing fault lines in cities especially in terms of inequalities in access to core services. In the face of these challenges, how can growing cities in the global south drive greater equity,...

Build Back Better: Cities at the Frontlines of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery

Build Back Better: Cities at the Frontlines of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery

Cities are not only at the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic, they are also likely to see lasting changes from it, from their physical form to economic and community structure. Cities are struggling to provide adequate access to water and sanitation for handwashing needs, healthcare services are being overwhelmed, and public transit systems are drastically...

AQ Tech Talk: Air Pollution Measurement & Mitigation for the Transport Sector

AQ Tech Talk: Air Pollution Measurement & Mitigation for the Transport Sector

The transport sector significantly impacts air quality at the local, urban, and global scales. In many cities throughout the world, transportation sources can contribute over half of particulate matter and nitrogen oxide emissions in addition to hundreds of other toxic compounds that negatively impact human health and the environment. Numerous studies indicate that people who...

Financing Sustainable Urban Development: An Introduction

Financing Sustainable Urban Development: An Introduction

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Toxic Air: The Challenge of Ozone Pollution

Toxic Air: The Challenge of Ozone Pollution

Surface ozone is a dangerous climate and air pollutant, damaging human health, ecosystems, crops and other plants, and contributing significantly to global warming. Ozone is created when gases released by cars, electric utilities, landfills, biomass fires, agriculture and industrial processes, among other sources, react with each other and sunlight. In 2017 alone, it contributed to...

OpenAQ: Fighting Air Inequality through Open Data and Community

OpenAQ: Fighting Air Inequality through Open Data and Community

Air pollution, responsible for more deaths each year than HIV/AIDS and malaria, combined, is a global public health crisis. Yet many scientific questions, including those directly relevant for policy, remain unanswered when it comes to the impact of air pollution on health in highly polluted environments. Often, specific solutions to improving air quality are local...

Introduction to City Climate Action Planning

Introduction to City Climate Action Planning

A climate action plan creates a framework for cities to reduce or “mitigate” greenhouse gas emissions in coordination with other city plans for development, transport, health, and other issues. When successfully orchestrated, a climate action plan can create a shared vision around a climate goal and can align climate policies with social and economic development...

Transforming Streets and Public Spaces with Tactical Urbanism

Transforming Streets and Public Spaces with Tactical Urbanism

Road safety is a global concern, as more than 1.35 million people are killed on roads each year. As part of its road safety program, WRI has developed tactical urbanism interventions that seek to influence the public policy of cities to generate permanent solutions that improve the safety conditions for residents. This webinar will present...

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How to Incorporate TOD Strategy into Master Plans

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is already established as one of the main urban planning strategies for compact growth. However, implementation is currently a challenge. TOD requires a legal framework that permits the correct management of urban land in connection to the transportation systems. Master Plans are key instruments for establishing the tools and developing the environment...

Improving Access Through Efficient Paratransit Systems

Improving Access Through Efficient Paratransit Systems

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Business Models for Electric Bus Adoption

Business Models for Electric Bus Adoption

This webinar will explain some principal components of business models that enable adoption of electric buses in public transport, based on case studies in 22 cities and 14 countries across America, Asia and Europe.

Global BRT Data

Global BRT Data

An interactive, public platform for reliable and current data about high performance bus systems in over 200 cities worldwide. BRTdata.org consolidates data from a variety of sources, including researchers, transit agencies, municipalities and NGOs. It has been cited by leading institutions, including UN-HABITAT, International Energy Agency (IEA), and the International Transport Forum.

Design Principles of Cycling [Draft Version]

Design Principles of Cycling [Draft Version]

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India's Strategy for Transforming Mobility | Webinar Series

India’s Strategy for Transforming Mobility | Webinar Series

From 30 July to 3 August 2018, WRI India will host a webinar series on “Transforming Mobility – Challenges and Opportunities,” focusing on themes such as alternative energy, reinventing public transport, data analytics and mobility, and more. The webinars will be held in the lead up to MOVE, a Global Mobility Summit organised by the Government of India’s think...