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Insights
April 6, 2021

4 Ways to Reduce Plastic Pollution

  • Business
  • circular economy
  • coronavirus
  • waste
  • green economy
  • oceans
  • pollution
  • regulation
Plastic waits for recycling landfill in the Philippines.
  • Business
  • circular economy
  • coronavirus
  • waste
  • green economy
  • oceans
  • pollution
  • regulation
Business
Insights
February 3, 2021

5 Opportunities of a Circular Economy

  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • Business
AggMax C&D recycling plant
  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • Business
Economics
Insights
December 21, 2020

4 Indicators that the Reuse and Resale Market Is on the Rise

  • circular economy
  • economy
  • Economics
  • Business
  • sustainable business
Clothing on wooden hangers on the side of a street
  • circular economy
  • economy
  • Economics
  • Business
  • sustainable business
Climate
North America
Insights
October 22, 2020

Bringing New Life to Fallen Urban Trees

  • Forests
  • circular economy
  • explainer
  • economy
  • health
  • forest restoration
  • reforestation
  • restoration
  • wood
A pile of logs in a forest.
  • Forests
  • circular economy
  • explainer
  • economy
  • health
  • forest restoration
  • reforestation
  • restoration
  • wood
Business
Insights
August 6, 2020

How to Build a Circular Economy

  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • explainer
  • waste
  • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
  • business opportunity
  • climate change
  • emissions
  • food waste
  • greenhouse gases
  • natural resources
  • sustainable business
  • Climate
Two recycling facility workers next to bales of aluminum cans. Photo by Aaron Minnick | WRI.
  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • explainer
  • waste
  • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
  • business opportunity
  • climate change
  • emissions
  • food waste
  • greenhouse gases
  • natural resources
  • sustainable business
  • Climate
Climate
Data
February 3, 2020

World Greenhouse Gas Emissions: 2016

  • climate change
  • emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • greenhouse gases
  • UNFCCC
  • climate change
  • emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • greenhouse gases
  • UNFCCC
Africa Asia Europe
News
January 17, 2020

RELEASE: PACE Announces Four New Board Members

  • Business
  • circular economy
  • waste
  • Business
  • circular economy
  • waste
Climate
Insights
December 2, 2019

What You Need to Know About Article 6 of the Paris Agreement

  • National Climate Action
  • paris agreement
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • international policy
  • UNFCCC
Wind turbines in Southern California
  • National Climate Action
  • paris agreement
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • international policy
  • UNFCCC
Business
Insights
August 28, 2019

Here’s What Could Go Wrong with the Circular Economy—and How to Keep it on Track

  • circular economy
  • Sustainable Development Goal 12
  • Sustainable Development Goal 8
  • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
Mattress recycling.
  • circular economy
  • Sustainable Development Goal 12
  • Sustainable Development Goal 8
  • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
Energy
Insights
July 16, 2019

Planes, Trains and (Big) Automobiles: How Heavy Transport Can Reduce Emissions and Save Money

  • Business
  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • Urban Mobility
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • renewable energy
  • sustainable business
  • transportation
A fuel-efficient airplane takes off during NASA's Green Flight competition.
  • Business
  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • Urban Mobility
  • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
  • renewable energy
  • sustainable business
  • transportation
Business
Insights
April 15, 2019

5 Ways to Unlock the Value of the Circular Economy

  • circular economy
  • Business
  • climate business
  • sustainable business
  • United States
Recycling's good. Reducing's better. Flickr/mbeo
  • circular economy
  • Business
  • climate business
  • sustainable business
  • United States
Governance
Insights
January 11, 2019

7 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2019

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • Business
  • bike sharing
  • circular economy
  • green finance
  • stories to watch
  • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
  • deforestation
  • adaptation
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • investment
California wildfire
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • Business
  • bike sharing
  • circular economy
  • green finance
  • stories to watch
  • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
  • deforestation
  • adaptation
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • investment
Business
Insights
January 10, 2019

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

  • circular economy
  • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
  • Business
Garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • circular economy
  • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
  • Business
Business
Insights
August 28, 2018

The World Is Burning. Here Are 5 Things Companies Should Do About It.

  • Sustainable Development Goal 8
  • paris agreement
  • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
  • Business
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
Wildfire in California.
  • Sustainable Development Goal 8
  • paris agreement
  • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
  • Business
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
Ocean
Insights
August 16, 2018

Banning Straws and Bags Won’t Solve our Plastic Problem

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

Why Climate Change is a Security Matter

  • Europe
  • Climate Resilience
  • circular economy
  • Africa
  • climate change
  • water
Mopti riverfront
  • Europe
  • Climate Resilience
  • circular economy
  • Africa
  • climate change
  • water
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
  • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
  • Business
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • sustainable business
Plastic pollution piles up on a beach on Clipperton Atoll in the Pacific.
  • circular economy
  • waste
  • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
  • Business
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • sustainable business
Insights
October 2, 2017

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

  • circular economy
  • sustainable cities
  • Urban Development
Sidewalk shoe-repair stands
  • circular economy
  • sustainable cities
  • Urban Development

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