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    circular economy
    Business
    North America
    Insights
    April 15, 2019

    5 Ways to Unlock the Value of the Circular Economy

    • circular economy
    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    Recycling's good. Reducing's better. Flickr/mbeo
    • circular economy
    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    Climate
    Insights
    January 21, 2019

    Climate Action Barometer: 12 Charts Explain Where We Are Today, and Where We Need to Be in 2020

    • Climate
    • GHG emissions
    • Climate
    • GHG emissions
    Climate
    Data
    January 21, 2019

    Tracking Progress of the 2020 Climate Turning Point

    • Climate
    • GHG emissions
    • Climate
    • GHG emissions
    Insights
    January 11, 2019

    7 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2019

    • Finance
    • Climate
    • U.S. Climate
    • Forests
    • Cities
    • Business
    • biking
    • circular economy
    • stories to watch
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • international climate policy
    • Health & Road Safety
    California wildfire
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • U.S. Climate
    • Forests
    • Cities
    • Business
    • biking
    • circular economy
    • stories to watch
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • international climate policy
    • Health & Road Safety
    Business
    Insights
    January 10, 2019

    By the Numbers: The Economic, Social and Environmental Impacts of “Fast Fashion”

    • circular economy
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    A close-up of multiple different colored button-ups on hangers.
    • circular economy
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    Ocean
    Insights
    August 16, 2018

    Banning Straws and Bags Won’t Solve our Plastic Problem

    • Business
    • circular economy
    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • Ocean
    • pollution
    Plastic waste on a beach
    • Business
    • circular economy
    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • Ocean
    • pollution
    Africa Europe
    Insights
    July 6, 2018

    Why Climate Change is a Security Matter

    • Climate Resilience
    • circular economy
    • climate change
    • Freshwater
    Mopti riverfront
    • Climate Resilience
    • circular economy
    • climate change
    • Freshwater
    Business
    Insights
    May 24, 2018

    Barriers to a Circular Economy: 5 Reasons the World Wastes So Much Stuff (and Why It's Not Just the Consumer's Fault)

    • circular economy
    • waste
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Plastic pollution piles up on a beach on Clipperton Atoll in the Pacific.
    • circular economy
    • waste
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Cities
    Insights
    October 2, 2017

    Moving Beyond “Take, Make, Waste”: Developing Cities Show the Possibilities of the Circular Economy

    • circular economy
    • Urban Development
    Sidewalk shoe-repair stands
    • circular economy
    • Urban Development
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    March 2, 2016

    A New Global Goal: Doubling Community and Indigenous Land by 2020

    • human rights
    • land rights
    • mapping
    rice harvesting
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • mapping
    Finance
    News
    June 3, 2015

    RELEASE: New Analysis Offers Pathways for International Climate Funding to Reach $100 Billion Annually by 2020

    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate finance
    • UNFCCC
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate finance
    • UNFCCC
    Forests
    Insights
    March 20, 2015

    Bonn Challenge On Track to Meet Land Restoration Goal by 2020

    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • Forests
    Peter Ndunda, Technical Program Manager, Clinton Climate Initiative (right) plants a tree in the Ethiopia's Lake Abaya Region with a local man. Photo by Aaron Minnick
    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • Forests
    Climate
    North America
    News
    January 9, 2014

    RELEASE: New Analysis Shows Minnesota Can Reduce Emissions 31 percent by 2020

    • Energy
    • GHG emissions
    • U.S. policy
    • pollution
    • power plants
    • regulation
    • Energy
    • GHG emissions
    • U.S. policy
    • pollution
    • power plants
    • regulation
    Climate
    Insights
    March 6, 2013

    Developed Nations Must Reduce Emissions By Half By 2020, Says New Study

    • climate science
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions

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