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INSIDER: How to Plan New Emission Pathways for a Low-Carbon Future

  • climate science
  • climate change
To put ourselves on a pathway to success, it's important to understand climate models.
  • climate science
  • climate change
Insights

A Global Greening: Green Building Certification Programs Make Gains

  • Buildings
  • natural infrastructure
WRI office renovated lobby
  • Buildings
  • natural infrastructure
Insights

Getting It Right: A New Global Model to Tackle Poverty and Climate Change

  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Finance
  • climate policy
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
  • COP21
Photo Credit: U.S. Mission to the United Nations at Rome
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Finance
  • climate policy
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
  • COP21
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Sustainability at WRI: Our Annual Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Sustainability Report

  • Energy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG emissions
  • corporate sustainability
Where in the world is WRI traveling? To better understand our business travel emissions and develop metrics for tracking changes, we instituted performance indicators, including emissions per staff and top destinations. Photo Credit: WRI
  • Energy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG emissions
  • corporate sustainability

A New Strategy to Improve Water Quality—One Targeted Watershed at a Time

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
More than 15,000 streams, rivers, and lakes are too polluted with nutrient runoff to support wildlife, be enjoyed recreationally, or serve as a drinking water source. Photo credit: USDA
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
Initiatives
This website serves as an information portal about eutrophication—the over-enrichment of water by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus—a leading threat to water quality around the world. Explore our interactive map and learn more.
  • Business
  • Forests
  • commodities

Can Nutrient Trading Shrink the Gulf of Mexico's Dead Zone?

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
Dead fish resulting from toxins or oxygen depletion in Lake Binder, Iowa. Photo credit: Dr. Jennifer L. Graham, U.S. Geological Survey
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
Insights

4 Lessons on Environmental Sustainability that Every Corporation Should Learn

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
Insights

Big Business and Sustainability: The Missing Links

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • Freshwater
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • Freshwater
Outcomes

Greener IFC Lending Standards

  • Finance
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Women working in Sri Lankan field
  • Finance
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Outcomes
Taku River in British Columbia
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Men in Indian field
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Brazil nut harvesters
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Outcomes

Indonesia’s Ambitious Forest Moratorium

  • Top Outcome: 2011
Workers in Indonesian forest
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Outcomes
People in city center
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Outcomes

A New Open Approach to Resource Management in Gabon

  • Top Outcome: 2011
Forest road in Gabon
  • Top Outcome: 2011