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Smallholder Farmers Are Key to Making the Palm Oil Industry Sustainable

  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • commodities
Indonesian palm oil
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • commodities
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Vietnam: An Up-and-Coming Clean Energy Leader?

  • renewable energy
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Energy
Offshore wind farm in Vietnam
  • renewable energy
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  • Energy
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How Companies Are Buying Clean Energy: 4 Lessons from India

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
Man by doorway in India
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  • Energy
  • renewable energy
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Reflections on Leonardo DiCaprio’s New Climate Change Film, Before the Flood

  • Climate
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  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • climate change
  • illegal logging
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Young orangutan
  • Climate
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  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Business
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RELEASE: For the First Time, Companies Can Gauge Deforestation Risk by Evaluating Palm Oil Mills

  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • commodities
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • commodities

RELEASE: Cargill, WRI Partner to Monitor and Manage Deforestation and Water Risk Across Supply Chains

  • Freshwater
  • forest monitoring
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
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  • Freshwater
  • forest monitoring
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
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Many Industries Can Find Water-Energy Connections Somewhere in Their Value Chains

  • Energy
  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Gender
  • fossil fuels
  • renewable energy
  • water risk
  • Energy
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  • Business
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  • Gender
  • fossil fuels
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6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2016

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  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Paris Agreement
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  • agriculture
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Andrew Steer
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  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
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  • agriculture
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What do Apple, Citi and Shell Have in Common?

  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
It's a pleasant surprise to see growing acceptance for the importance of low-carbon power from some of the world’s biggest traditional energy firms. Photo by Aeon Solar/Flickr.
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
Research

Going in the Right Direction?

3 Promising Pathways to Finance Sustainable Cities

  • Cities
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • COP20
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
  • Paris Agreement
  • transportation
Leaders at COP20 can explore a range of sources for financing low-carbon urban development including multilateral investment banks, private investors, and innovative initatives like the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions or climate-themed bonds. (Mexico City, Mexico) Photo by Boris G/Flickr.
  • Cities
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • COP20
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
  • Paris Agreement
  • transportation
Outcomes

China Moves Toward Mandatory Corporate GHG Reporting

  • Energy
  • Top Outcome: 2014
Smog over Shanghai
  • Energy
  • Top Outcome: 2014
Outcomes

Better Bus Systems & Car-free Days Improve Life in India’s Cities

  • Urban Mobility
  • transportation
  • Top Outcome: 2014
Raahgiri Day in India
  • Urban Mobility
  • transportation
  • Top Outcome: 2014

What Would Success Look Like at COP 20 in Lima?

  • COP20
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
Lima is a major milestone on the path to Paris and the 2015 climate agreement. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • COP20
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC

Opportunities in New Climate Economy

  • Climate
  • climate change
  • COP20
  • Economics
  • GHG emissions
  • Paris Agreement
Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama. Photo by U.S. Embassy, The Hague/Flickr.
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  • climate change
  • COP20
  • Economics
  • GHG emissions
  • Paris Agreement

The China-U.S. Climate Agreement: By the Numbers

  • International Climate Action
  • COP20
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • UNFCCC
China plans to increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 20 percent by 2020. (Yunnan, China) Photo by Mingjia Zhou/Flickr.
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India Greenhouse Gas Program

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A Look at China's New Environmental Guidelines on Overseas Investments

  • Climate
  • Business
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  • multilateral development banks
  • low carbon development
  • Climate
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • multilateral development banks
  • low carbon development
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3 Ways to Achieve Zero Tropical Deforestation by 2020

  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
  • commodities
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
  • commodities