Innovation

Washington, DC – a Living Lab for Sustainability and Innovation

Washington, DC is a compact city, encompassing just under 70 square miles and nearly 700,000 residents.
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Output-Based Aid for Solid Waste Management Nepal and the West Bank - OBA Approaches

With rapid urbanization, population growth, and new economic activity, municipal solid waste is increasing at alarming rates, and is expected to almost triple in low and lower middle income countries by 2025. At the same time, solid waste management (SWM) systems in most developing countries are underfunded and suffer from a lack of planning. Improving SWM requires intervention all along the supply chain. Such improvements do not necessarily require major financial investment.
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Cities Can: Accelerating Progress Toward the SDGs Through City-led Initiatives

In this report, Devex and City Cancer Challenge explore the challenges and best practices involved in implementing city-led initiatives to make them more meaningful and impactful, and the success factors that help replicate results and bring programs to scale in a variety of sectors.
 
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Cities, Culture, Creativity : Leveraging Culture and Creativity for Sustainable Urban Development and Inclusive Growth

Culture and creativity have untapped potential to deliver social, economic, and spatial benefits for cities and communities. Cultural and creative industries are key drivers of the creative economy and represent important sources of employment, economic growth, and innovation, thus contributing to city competitiveness and sustainability.
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Greater Than Parts: A Metropolitan Opportunity

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[DATASET] Resource Watch

More data are available today than ever before. Yet too often policymakers, business leaders, and analysts cannot access the data they need to make informed decisions about the environment and human well-being. That’s why WRI and over 30 partners built Resource Watch, a dynamic platform that leverages technology, data, and human networks to bring unprecedented transparency about the planet right now. Resource Watch features hundreds of data sets all in one place on the state of the planet’s resources and citizens.

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[DATASET] WRI Datasets

WRI produces and curates data sets as part of our commitment to turn information into action. These products are based on our research, which are held to traditional academic standards of excellence, including objectivity and rigor.

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