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A Carbon Price Can Benefit the Poor While Reducing Emissions

  • Economics
  • carbon pricing
  • COP24
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
coal miner
  • Economics
  • carbon pricing
  • COP24
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
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Cities Can Save $17 Trillion by Preventing Urban Sprawl

  • Economics
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • low carbon development
  • transportation
  • Urban Development
New York City
  • Economics
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • low carbon development
  • transportation
  • Urban Development
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Making Food Production and Land Use More Sustainable Could Yield $2.3 Trillion in Economic Benefits

  • Food
  • Economics
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • health
  • restoration
Harvesting oil palm in Indonesia.
  • Food
  • Economics
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • health
  • restoration
Initiatives

Cities4Forests

Pond and trees in front of city skyline.
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Low-Carbon Growth Is a $26 Trillion Opportunity. Here Are 4 Ways to Seize It.

  • Business
  • Economics
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • climate change
Solar panels and wind turbines
  • Business
  • Economics
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • climate change
News

RELEASE: First-Ever Global Standard to Measure Food Loss and Waste Introduced by International Partnership

  • Business
  • Food
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • corporate sustainability
  • world resources report
  • Business
  • Food
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • corporate sustainability
  • world resources report
Outcomes

Consumer Goods Forum Commits to Halve Food Waste by 2025

  • corporate sustainability
  • Top Outcome: 2015
Two green trashbags filled with waste
  • corporate sustainability
  • Top Outcome: 2015
Research

Walking the Talk

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Let's Make It Earth and Prosperity Day

  • Finance
  • Economics
  • climate change
  • poverty
  • corporate sustainability
You can’t tackle poverty and spur economic growth without protecting the environment, and you can’t protect the environment without finding ways to make the economy grow while improving people’s lives. Photo by Global Water Partnership/Flickr.
  • Finance
  • Economics
  • climate change
  • poverty
  • corporate sustainability
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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
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4 Actions Companies Can Take to Source Legal Wood

  • forest products
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
  • corporate sustainability
  • Business
Some countries have harvest or export bans on certain species or certain forms of harvested timber. It is important for companies to consider which timber species they are using and where they are purchasing from. Photo credit: Tim Gage, Flickr 2007
  • forest products
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
  • corporate sustainability
  • Business
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Demystifying the Role of Ecosystem Services in Impact Assessments

  • natural infrastructure
  • multilateral development banks
  • natural resources
  • corporate sustainability
  • natural infrastructure
  • multilateral development banks
  • natural resources
  • corporate sustainability
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Nitrogen Trifluoride Now Required in GHG Protocol Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories

  • Business
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG Protocol
  • corporate sustainability
  • Business
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG Protocol
  • corporate sustainability
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Step-by-Step Guidance on Corporate Water Disclosure

  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • corporate sustainability
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • corporate sustainability
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
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New Integrated Reporting Framework Aims to Tackle Profit and Planet

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • corporate sustainability
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • corporate sustainability
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Accounting for Environmental Externalities Is Good for Business and the Planet

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • corporate sustainability
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • corporate sustainability