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    Food
    North America
    Outcomes
    February 13, 2024

    US Hospitals Reduce Emissions Through Plant-based Foods

    • Top Outcome: 2023
    • Food
    • health
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • agriculture
    Hospital dining workers.
    • Top Outcome: 2023
    • Food
    • health
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • agriculture
    Cities
    Asia Africa Latin America Oceania North America Europe
    Insights
    November 29, 2023

    The Future of Extreme Heat in Cities: What We Know — and What We Don’t

    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    • Urban Development
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate impacts
    • climate science
    • COP28
    Brick layers during in a heatwave in New Delhi, India
    • Urban Efficiency & Climate
    • Urban Development
    • Climate
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate impacts
    • climate science
    • COP28
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    January 19, 2021

    7 Ways the Biden Administration Can Reverse Climate Rollbacks

    • Climate Resilience
    • GHG emissions
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate science
    • climate policy
    • climate change
    • U.S. policy
    President-elect Joe Biden having a conversation with Mark Updegrove, former director of the LBJ Library.
    • Climate Resilience
    • GHG emissions
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate science
    • climate policy
    • climate change
    • U.S. policy
    Food
    North America
    Insights
    February 1, 2019

    Q&A: How a Cuban Name Change Boosted Panera’s Soup Sales

    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Food
    Black bean soup
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Food
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    January 30, 2019

    Climate Change, Frigid Temperatures and the Polar Vortex: 3 Things to Know

    • climate science
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    • climate impacts
    polar vortex
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    • climate impacts
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    November 25, 2018

    National Climate Assessment: U.S. Climate Action Can Avoid Tens of Thousands of Deaths, Hundreds of Billions in Damages Annually

    • U.S. Climate
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • climate impacts
    • U.S. policy
    Hurricane Harvey
    • U.S. Climate
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • climate impacts
    • U.S. policy
    Climate
    North America
    News
    November 23, 2018

    STATEMENT: Fourth National Climate Assessment Confirms Climate Change Will Affect All Regions and All Sectors of U.S. Economy

    • Air Quality
    • Water Security
    • fires
    • climate science
    • natural infrastructure
    • Climate Resilience
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • health
    • climate impacts
    • water pollution
    • pollution
    • sea level rise
    • Ocean
    • Air Quality
    • Water Security
    • fires
    • climate science
    • natural infrastructure
    • Climate Resilience
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • health
    • climate impacts
    • water pollution
    • pollution
    • sea level rise
    • Ocean
    Food
    North America
    Insights
    February 22, 2018

    This Flavor-Packed Burger Saves As Many Emissions As Taking 2 Million Cars Off the Road

    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • agriculture
    • Food
    mini burgers
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • agriculture
    • Food
    Food
    North America
    Insights
    January 24, 2018

    2018 Will See High Meat Consumption in the U.S., but the American Diet is Shifting

    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • Food
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • Food
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    November 3, 2017

    U.S. Climate Assessment: Now Is the Warmest Period of Modern Times

    • COP23
    • climate science
    • Climate
    It's hot out here.
    • COP23
    • climate science
    • Climate
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    August 16, 2017

    Draft U.S. National Climate Assessment Confirms Fundamental Truths of Climate Change

    • U.S. Climate
    • U.S. policy
    • climate science
    Climate change will affect all Americans. The NCA projects how.
    • U.S. Climate
    • U.S. policy
    • climate science
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    June 22, 2017

    Manish Bapna to Congress on Climate Action: “We Are Not Backing Down and We Hope You Won’t Either”

    • U.S. Climate
    • U.S. policy
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate science
    • climate policy
    • U.S. Climate
    • U.S. policy
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate science
    • climate policy
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    June 20, 2017

    Pruitt’s “Red Team-Blue Team” Exercise a Bad Fit for EPA Climate Science

    • climate science
    • Climate
    • U.S. policy
    EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt
    • climate science
    • Climate
    • U.S. policy
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    June 8, 2017

    Mere Steps from the Oval Office, a Growing Solution to Climate Change

    • Food
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • U.S. policy
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    Children plant vegetables in the White House Kitchen Garden
    • Food
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • U.S. policy
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    April 20, 2017

    Attacks on Science Threaten All of Us

    • U.S. policy
    • climate science
    Scientists at work
    • U.S. policy
    • climate science
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    March 31, 2017

    Does Science Have a Future in “Alternative Facts” America?

    • climate science
    • climate change
    • U.S. policy
    Donald Trump
    • climate science
    • climate change
    • U.S. policy
    Food
    Europe North America
    News
    February 23, 2017

    ADVISORY: Press Call: The Business Case for Reducing Food Loss and Waste with Tesco CEO Dave Lewis

    • Business
    • Finance
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • Business
    • Finance
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Food
    North America
    Insights
    February 10, 2017

    In a Broken Food System, Consumers Have More Power Than They Realize

    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • food security
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Farmers’ market in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • food security
    • Food Loss and Waste

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