• Aqueduct Global Maps 2.0

    Companies can use this information to prioritize actions, investors to leverage financial interest to improve water management, and governments to engage with the private sector to seek solutions for more equitable and sustainable water governance. Aqueduct Global Maps 2.0 includes indicators of...

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  • Datasheet for Technical Note: A Breakdown of Developed Countries’ Public Clim...

    This dataset contains a breakdown of developed countries individual public contributions in public climate finance towards the $100 billion commitment between 2013-2018. This dataset was used in WRI’s technical note ‘A Breakdown of Developed Countries’ Public Climate Finance Contributions Towards...

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  • Índice de Desigualdad Urbana (Index of Urban Inequality)

    The main objective of the UII methodology is to estimate the level of accessibility/proximity to urban equipment for different socioeconomic strata in cities. This allows to compare and identify inequality in the territorial distribution of development opportunities such as formal employment,...

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  • WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities’ Water and Sanitation 15-City Study

    To address the absence of comparable city-level water data, this dataset compiles data from 15 global South cities located in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America and among the regions that are the focus of the World Resources Report (WRR) "Towards a More Equal City". The 15 cities...

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  • Land Use in Selected Indian Cities

    The dataset comprises eleven series of land use/land cover (LULC) maps, each corresponding to one city in India—Ahmedabad, Belgaum, Hindupur, Hyderabad, Jalna, Kanpur, Parbhani, Pune, Singrauli, Sitapur, or Vijayawada—and containing one map per year for 2015–2018. Every map contains several...

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  • Indicators of Sustainable Agriculture: A Scoping Analysis

    The spreadsheet “Evaluation of Candidate Indicators of Environmental Sustainability of Agriculture” presents the complete list of candidate indicators that were considered in the scoping analysis as well as the results of an assessment that determined the suitability of these candidate indicators...

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  • Locations of water supplies serving Nairobi, Kenya.

    Locations of dam were approximately located by WRI based on SoK 1971, MoWD and JICA 1992a, 1992b, 1992c, Nyaoro 1999, and Wambua 2003. This data was used in Map 3.9 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being.

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  • China Overseas Finance Inventory Database

    The COFI database includes power-generation projects in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries financed by Chinese corporations and banks that reached financial closure from 2000 to 2023. Types of financing include debt and equity investment, with the latter including greenfield foreign direct...

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  • Uganda Rural Poverty Data 2005

    The poverty indicators produced by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) are based on household consumption expenditures, including both food and a range of nonfood items such as education, transport, health, and rent. Households are defined as poor when their total expenditures fall below...

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  • Marine Protected Areas in Coral Reef Regions of the World

    This dataset is part of the base data used for Reefs at Risk Revisited. To assess the level of protection and management for coral reefs around the world. The map of MPAs and associated management effectiveness scores were used to adjust pressure from overfishing and destructive fishing in the...

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  • Average water consumption of livestock and wildlife by sub-basin in Kenya, 19...

    WRI/ILRI calculation based on animal data from DRSRS 2003; Grunblatt et al. 1995, 1996; and daily water requirements for selected species from MoWD and JICA 1992, Peden at al. 2003, 2004. This data was used in Map 3.13 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being.

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  • CAIT Indonesia Climate Data Explorer (PINDAI) Data

    The data set draws primarily from Local Action Plan for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction (RAD GRK), and Medium Term Local Development Plans (RPJMD) of each province in Indonesia. These documents are obtained from Indonesian national and regional government agencies, including the Secretariat of...

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  • Local Government Renewables Action Tracker

    The Tracker contains information on two types of renewables activities commonly being pursued by local governments in the United States: 1. Electricity purchases and transactions, such as on-site solar, community solar projects, off-site power purchase agreements (PPAs), and green tariff...

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  • Milk Surplus and Deficit in Central and Western Kenya in 1997

    Calculations of milk production were done by assessing the number of dairy cattle in an administrative area, and extrapolating out liters of milk per area. Demand for milk was calculated by estimating the milk needs per person, and applying that number to the population density of each area....

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  • Major Towns in Kenya

    This data was used in maps throughout Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being.

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  • Locations of market centers in western Kenya

    This data was used in Map 3.15 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being.

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  • Reefs at Risk Revisited (Social Vulnerability Data)

    This shapefile features the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) for 108 coral reef countries and territories classified according to an index of their reef dependence, adaptive capacity, and social vulnerability. Results are presented as quartiles, with 27 countries/territories classified in each of...

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  • Reefs at Risk Revisited: Climate-Related Threats Data

    Global (i.e., climate-related) threats to the world's coral reefs were analyzed. These include: past thermal stress (i.e., warming seas and bleaching over the last decade), future thermal stress (ie., projections of future warming in 2030 and 2050); and ocean acidification (i.e., reduced ocean...

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  • Reefs at Risk Revisited (Local Threats Data)

    Threats from coastal development, marine-based pollution and damage, overfishing and destructive fishing, and watershed-based pollution were analyzed separately. These threats were integrated into the Integrated Local Threat index. Past thermal stress was integrated with local threats into the...

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  • Dataset of U.S. School Bus Fleets

    This dataset contains detailed information on the composition of school bus fleets in the United States. It dataset contains data from 46 states and the District of Columbia, though the specific data available vary by state. For most states, the dataset includes bus-level information, such as the...

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