Chinese suppliers can improve their business performance by adopting high environmental standards, according to a new working paper by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE). The paper, “Greening Supply Chains in China,” highlights the experiences of five companies in China that have worked to improve their environmental performance.
As the Tianjin climate negotiations come to a close, progress remains patchy. The forecast is still cloudy, but rays of sunlight are just starting to peak through.
Two countries that once eyed each other warily, India and the United States are building trust through mutually beneficial partnerships on climate and energy.
By Stephanie Hanson, compiled by Aliza Wasserman on September 20, 2010
While federal climate
change legislation has
stalled, federal agencies,
states, and Congress made
some progress on controlling
greenhouse gas emissions in
the past two years.
In advance of the summit between President Obama and Prime Minister Singh as well as the United Nations climate change negotiations in Mexico, the World Resources Institute
The German Embassy and the World Resources Institute will be hosting an event to discuss policies for Germany and the United States to move to a low-carbon future, as part of the German government’s “Transatlantic Climate Bridge” initiative.