WRI Stories Feed: Business and Climate

6 Top Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2013

Andrew Steer — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:17:17 -0500

This post originally appeared on Bloomberg.com.

As we enter 2013, there are signs of growth and economic…

A Look Back on 2012, the Year of Extreme Weather Events

Kelly Levin — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:39:15 -0500

Temperatures hit an unseasonably warm 61˚F in Washington D.C. earlier this week. The Middle East is blanketed in record rainfall and rare heavy snowfall, …

Big Business and Sustainability: The Missing Links

Janet Ranganathan — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:44:42 -0500

This piece originally appeared on The Guardian’s Sustainable Business website.

As another year begins, big…

5 Reasons India Needs a Green Power Purchasing Group

Alex Perera — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:58:42 -0500

With more than 400 million of its 1.2 billion citizens without access…

National Intelligence Council Report: Megatrends That Matter For Business

Manish Bapna — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:49:26 -0500

This post originally appeared on Forbes.com.

Two-hundred page policy reports…

3 New Corporate Sustainability Strategies from this Year’s Mindshare Meeting

Chris Perceval — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:43:26 -0500

The annual 2012 Mindshare Meeting of WRI’s Corporate…

White House’s Industrial Energy Efficiency Plan Will Boost Manufacturing, Curb Emissions

Nate Aden — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:11:22 -0400

Yesterday, President Obama signed an Executive Order establishing a national goal of deploying 40 gigawatts (…

A Look Inside Facebook’s Carbon Footprint

Benedict Buckley — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:22:41 -0400

Facebook, a business that relies so heavily on people’s willingness to share information, took an important step recently by sharing some details of…

U.S. Drought Demonstrates Complexity, Severity of Water Risk

Robert Kimball — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:24:16 -0400

This post is part of WRI’s “Extreme Weather Watch” series, which explores the link between climate change and extreme events. Read our other posts in this series…

Calling All Businesses: Help Pilot WRI’s SWOT Tool for Corporate Sustainability

Eliot Metzger — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:16:29 -0400

The World Resources Institute (WRI) and our corporate partners are using a new twist on an old tool to spark innovations for a green economy—a “SWOT tool”…