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Deep Dive Projects Overview 2023

WRI Ross Center’s Deep Dive Cities Initiative focuses on locally driven strategic projects as entry points to foster long-term,...

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November 2023 WRI Network Project Updates

This content will share highlights of work being done across the WRI Country Offices. These highlights come from the November 2...

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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-Ad...

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Sete transformações para cidades mais equitativas e sustentáveis curso
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Sete transformações para cidades mais equitativas e sustentáveis

O World Resources Institute (WRI) passou seis anos a investigar os desafios económicos, demográficos e de recursos e a forma co...

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Using Data in Urban Planning Course
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Using Data in Urban Planning

This course discusses the importance of the use of data in urban planning. It will also address data management, governance, an...

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Framing the opportunity
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Framing the Opportunity

What this guide will cover 1. What’s the purpose of framing the opportunity? 2. Why is it important to develop a comprehe...

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Seven Transformations for More Equitable and Sustainable Cities

The World Resources Institute (WRI) spent six years investigating economic, demographic, and resource challenges and how t...

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Theory of Change
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Theory of Change

This Guide will help teams to:

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Strategy Development

This Learning Guide is based on the book Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt, and i...

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Proposal Development
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Proposal Development

The objective of this learning guide is to ensure that all members of WRI Ross Center understand what the Proposal Development ...

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

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Overcoming Barriers to Financing Sustainable Urban Infrastructure [Draft Version]
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Overcoming Barriers to Financing Sustainable Urban Infrastructure [Draft Version]

This is the second of two guides in the Financing Sustainable Urban Development series. It covers investment barriers...

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Introduction to Communications at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
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Introduction to Communications at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

By the end of this guide, users will:

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An Introduction to Research at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
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An Introduction to Research at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

This learning guide provides an overview of research standards and processes for staff of WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Citie...

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

Main Question: What are some of the plans, policies, regulations, and institutional arrangements that cities can use to maintai...

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

Purpose of this guide This guide is developed by Cities4Forests to direct cities toward positive, equitable, and inclusive fore...

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Reducing Demand for Vehicle Trips in Cities
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Reducing Demand for Vehicle Trips in Cities

Many cities have realized they cannot build themselves out of traffic jams by adding new roads and parking lots. An alternative...

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How Cities can Engage Organizations in Improving Urban Mobility
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How Cities can Engage Organizations in Improving Urban Mobility

Although organizations cannot determine how employees commute to work, they can influence their travel patterns by implementing...

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City Climate Action Planning

By the end of this guide, users will:

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

Purpose of this guide This guide is developed by Cities4Forests to direct cities toward positive, equitable, and inclusive fore...

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AQ Tech Talk: Forecast and Impacts of Saharan Dust
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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 Atlant...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Financing Sustainable Urban Development: An Introduction
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Financing Sustainable Urban Development: An Introduction

This introduction to financing sustainable urban development covers the need for this type of finance, new funding sources, and...

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Toxic Air: The Challenge of Ozone Pollution
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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 contribu...

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OpenAQ: Fighting Air Inequality through Open Data and Community
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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...

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Introduction to City Climate Action Planning
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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 othe...

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Transforming Streets and Public Spaces with Tactical Urbanism
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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 pro...

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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. Howe...

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Improving Access Through Efficient Paratransit Systems
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Improving Access Through Efficient Paratransit Systems

By the end of this Learning Guide, readers will:

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Business Models for Electric Bus Adoption
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Business Models for Electric Bus Adoption

This webinar will explain some principal components of business models that enable adoption of electric buses in public transpo...

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Global BRT Data
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Global BRT Data

An interactive, public platform for reliable and current data about high performance bus systems in over 200 cities worldwide. ...

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Design Principles of Cycling [Draft Version]
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Design Principles of Cycling [Draft Version]

This guide will give you information about cycling infrastructure and introduce you to 6 design principles for cycling. It will...

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India's Strategy for Transforming Mobility | Webinar Series
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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...

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