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This is Leadership: Why Companies Are Setting Emissions Goals Based on Science

  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • greenhouse gases
The Science-Based Targets initiative aims to enlist 100 companies to setting greenhouse gas reduction targets based on the latest climate science. Photo by Stephanie Meshke/Flickr
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • greenhouse gases
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Quick Perspective on UN Secretary-General’s Vision for a Post-2015 Agenda

  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • development
  • human rights
  • climate science
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
Photo by UNDP via OXFAM/Flickr.
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • development
  • human rights
  • climate science
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
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5 Ways Countries Can Align their Emissions-Reduction Pledges with the Latest Climate Science

  • International Climate Action
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
Emissions will need to drop roughly 14 percent below 2010 levels by 2030 and 40 to 70 percent below 2010 levels by 2050 to limit temperature rise to 2°C. Photo by BlackRockSolar/Flickr
  • International Climate Action
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
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Visualizing the Past, Present and Future of Carbon Emissions

  • Energy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • climate science
  • UNFCCC
Pollution from a factory in New Jersey, United States. Photo by John Isaac/UN
  • Energy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • climate science
  • UNFCCC
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Interactive: Carbon Emissions Past, Present and Future

  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • climate science
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • climate science
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The Emissions Gap Roadmap

  • climate science
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
A new report evaluates the "emissions gap" between current commitments to reduce emissions and those needed to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees C. Photo by Josef Stuefer/Flickr
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC

STATEMENT: WRI Reacts to Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience Report

  • Climate Resilience
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STATEMENT: WRI Reacts to IPCC Synthesis Report

  • climate change
  • climate science
  • GHG emissions
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Average annual ice loss in the northeast portion of the Greenland Ice Sheet between 2006 and 2012 was more than 10 Gigatons. Photo credit: Nick Russill, Flickr
  • climate science
  • climate change
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3 Infographics Explain Our Climate Past and Future

  • climate science
  • climate change
If emissions continue unabated, the world will exceed its "carbon budget" in three decades. Photo credit: arbyreed, Flickr
  • climate science
  • climate change

Ecuador Shows Why Communities and the Climate Need Strong Forest Rights

  • Climate
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • extractive industries
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • fossil fuels
The impacts of oil extraction in Ecuador show why secure community forest rights are necessary to protect livelihoods and the environment. Photo credit: Tomas Munita, CIFOR
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • extractive industries
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • fossil fuels
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Infographic: Choose Your Future: 4 Possible Emissions Pathways

  • climate science
  • climate change
  • fossil fuels
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
Infographic intro
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  • climate change
  • fossil fuels
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
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Choose Your Future: 4 Possible Emissions Pathways

  • Energy
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • fossil fuels
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
With higher amounts of warming, coffee farming could be virtually impossible in Southeastern Brazil in 2100. Photo Credit: Ben Kaminsky/Flickr
  • Energy
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • fossil fuels
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC

What Will it Take to End the “Resource Curses?”

  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • natural resources
  • fossil fuels
  • environmental justice
  • land rights
Chad's oil fields continue to leach chemicals, create air pollution, and degrade Lake Chad. Photo credit: Carsen ten Brink, Flickr
  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • natural resources
  • fossil fuels
  • environmental justice
  • land rights

National Climate Assessment Reveals How Climate Change Impacts Your Neighborhood

  • climate change
  • climate science
  • power plants
  • U.S. policy
The National Climate Assessment reveals how regions throughout the nation are being impacted by climate change. Photo credit: Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen, US Air Force/New Jersey National Guard
  • climate change
  • climate science
  • power plants
  • U.S. policy

Statement: National Climate Assessment Reaffirms Severity of Climate Impacts in the U.S.

  • climate change
  • climate policy
  • climate science
  • GHG emissions
  • climate change
  • climate policy
  • climate science
  • GHG emissions
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Corporate Lobbying on Climate Change: Silence is not Neutrality

  • Energy
  • climate change
  • climate science
  • Business
Corporate shareholders and stakeholders want to understand how companies support strong policy action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to a changing climate. Photo credit: Petter Duvander/Flickr
  • Energy
  • climate change
  • climate science
  • Business
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Analyzing the IPCC Report: 6 Things You Need to Know About Reducing Emissions

  • climate science
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
The new IPCC report shows that it's still possible to limit average global temperature rise to 2°C, but only with ambitious action. Photo credit: Photon Energy, Flickr
  • climate science
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
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WRI Statement on Latest IPCC Report

  • Energy
  • climate science
  • climate policy
  • international climate policy
  • climate change
  • Energy
  • climate science
  • climate policy
  • international climate policy
  • climate change
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What Is the Role for Transformation in Adaptation?

  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • climate science
Authors of a paper on transformational adaptation have deemed the development of wheat-resistant maize in Africa “transformative." Photo credit: WorldFish, Flickr 2012
  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • climate science