Stories by Janet Ranganathan

Shale Gas: Time to Look Before We Leap Any Further

Shale gas is a game-changer for global energy supply. It is already transforming the U.S.

Today the GHG Protocol launches two new global greenhouse gas accounting standards - for

A New Approach to Feeding the World

This piece originally appeared in The Solutions Journal

For centuries, Minqin Oasis, along the Silk Road in northwestern China, provided a…

The Forest Company of the Future

This story originally appeared in the Guardian.

This piece was originally posted on www.environmentalleader

Investing in Nature for Economic Growth (Part I of II)

This piece was originally posted on www.environmentalleader.com, and was written by Amanda DeSantis, DuPont, and Janet…

Turn Climate-Change Risk Into Business Opportunity

This piece originally appeared on Bloomberg Government and is reposted with permission.

Payments for Ecosystem Services: Green is the New Grey

This piece was originally posted on the Ecosystem Services for Policy Alleviation website, and was written with WRI intern Julie Edmonds.

In these times of…

In a survey of global businesses, 86 percent described responding to climate risks or investing in adaptation as a business opportunity. So finds a new report jointly released yesterday by the UN Global Compact, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Oxfam and the World Resources Institute.

Do the revised reporting guidelines for the oil and gas industry go far enough?