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by and - DNA evidence often implicates violent criminals. Now it can do the same for poachers harvesting wood from protected forests.
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by Andrew Light - May 30, 2018President Trump announced one year ago that he would pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement. Meanwhile, other countries and U.S. states, cities and businesses have moved forward with climate action.
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by Jennifer Layke - May 21, 2018The world needs to double its global rate of improvement in energy efficiency. To get there will require a massive effort—and right now, the United States is lagging behind.
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by Priya Barua - May 17, 2018Big buyers of electricity have keyed in on a single metric, but a more holistic understanding of leadership can unlock creative ways to accelerate the renewables revolution.
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by Emily Mangan - May 14, 2018China's tariff on U.S. soy could drive production to South America. Without precautions, deforestation could follow.
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by Rebecca Gasper and Tim Searchinger - April 2018This working paper explores RNG’s potential as a climate-change strategy in the U.S., including the conditions under which it can achieve large greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions compared to fossil fuels used to power vehicles.
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by Joe Thwaites - March 23, 2018The 2018 United States budget poses some complications for climate finance. It will take time for its implications to be clear—here's what to watch.
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by Colin Strong and Cindy Noe - March 08, 2018Many databases cover the world's physical water resources, but none give a global picture of water management and policy. Since companies already track water management where they have operations, a crowdsourced approach relying on their input could spin up the database quickly.
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Fostering and encouraging the United States and China to lead by example and serve as sustainable finance champions.
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by Dario Hidalgo - March 06, 2018Autonomous vehicles are already driving the roads—and driving debate— in California, Pittsburgh, Singapore, Paris and Oslo.
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by Richard Waite, Daniel Vennard and Gerard Pozzi - February 22, 2018Blending mushrooms into burgers improves their taste while lowering emissions, saving water and reducing land demand.
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by Daniel Vennard - January 30, 2018Only one of the United States' top 25 dishes is plant-based. We think that can change—the power bowl, blended burger and avocado club are on their way.
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by Tyler Clevenger - January 30, 2018President Donald Trump’s approval of a four-year tariff on imported solar panels will raise costs, cut installations, reduce jobs and slow the decline in greenhouse gas emissions. But the economic and environmental benefits of solar power remain strong, and governments, businesses and individuals should act now to lock in a low-carbon future.
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by Richard Waite - January 24, 2018While 2017 was a banner year for plant-based eating, the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts 2018 will be a year when Americans eat a record amount of meat. There's more to the story: the mix of meats in the U.S. diet has been shifting away from beef and toward chicken for decades.
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Providing support for achieving emission reductions and analysis on how leaders can achieve a stronger, cleaner economy
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by Ying Wang, Fei Ye, Shiyong Qiu, Su Song and Andrew Pickford - January 2018This working paper studies 10 cases from Europe, Asia, and the United States to highlight the variety of social, political, and environmental contexts within which CC and LEZ schemes were planned and implemented. It aims to provide public communication strategies to safeguard successful implementation of transport policies.
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by Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, Joe Thwaites and Gwynne Taraska - December 11, 2017U.S. nonfederal leaders who support the Paris Agreement can help support the poorest and most climate-vulnerable populations.
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by Kristin Igusky, Karen Chen and Tom Cyrs - December 07, 2017At a time when the Trump administration is abdicating the U.S. position as global climate leader, a growing number of U.S. states, cities and businesses are stepping up their climate action. Here are four areas of climate action opportunity.
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by Taryn Fransen and Kelly Levin - December 06, 2017How could the Trump administration's rollbacks of climate action policies increase greenhouse gas emissions? And how much might action by states, cities and others counteract such an increase?
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by Diego Canales, Larissa Da Silva, Srikanth Shastry, Shannon Bouton, Elaine Trimble, Julia Thayne, Stefan Knupfer and Martin Powell - November 2017New mobility services could improve the lives of all urban inhabitants. This first ever global survey finds that applying three types of new mobility services – electric, on-demand minibuses, subsidized shared rides, and trip-planning and ticketing apps – can make public transport more affordable, accessible and sustainable, if integrated properly.