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What Does Environmental Democracy Look Like?

  • Energy
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • renewable energy
Eight years ago, developers proposed a five-dam project on the Baker and Pascua Rivers in Patagonia, Chile. While they projected that the hydropower would produce 2,750 megawatts of power, the project would also flood 23 square miles of wilderness, jeopardizing the environment, local culture, and tourism of the region. Photo Credit: International Rivers/Flickr
  • Energy
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • renewable energy

Tackling U.S. Corporations’ 3 Challenges to Buying Renewable Energy

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • renewable energy
Sixty percent of the largest U.S. companies have set climate and energy goals to increase their use of renewable energy. Photo credit: Thomas Rousing, Flickr
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • renewable energy

RELEASE: Major US Companies: Unmet Renewable Energy Demand Requires Market Shift

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Energy
  • renewable energy

Courage to Lead: WRI Celebrates Sustainability Champions

  • Cities
  • Business
  • climate change
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
From left to right: Andrew Steer, Pamela Flaherty, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Jim Harmon.
  • Cities
  • Business
  • climate change
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy

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
News

RELEASE: WRI Aqueduct Overall Water Risk Map Launched on Bloomberg

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • mapping
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • mapping
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
Initiatives

India Greenhouse Gas Program

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Open Government Partnership: It’s Time for Deeper Engagement with the Environment Sector

  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
A water irrigation project in Tamil Nadu, India. Photo credit: Michael Foley, Flickr
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
Insights

Conflicting Reporting Systems May Hinder Companies' Water Risk Strategies

  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • data
  • mapping
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
A tugboat pushes barges on the Mississippi River. Photo credit: Tom Gill, Flickr
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • data
  • mapping
  • Freshwater
  • water risk

Why Climate Justice?

  • Climate
  • Climate Equity
  • environmental justice
  • international climate policy
  • Climate
  • Climate Equity
  • environmental justice
  • international climate policy
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A Look at China's New Environmental Guidelines on Overseas Investments

  • Climate
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • multilateral development banks
  • low carbon development
  • Climate
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • multilateral development banks
  • low carbon development
Insights

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
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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
Insights

RELEASE: 14 Latin American and Caribbean Countries Adopt an Ambitious Plan of Action to Improve Access Rights in the Region

  • environmental justice
  • freedom of information
  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • freedom of information
  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy

5 Steps to Improve the World Bank’s Social and Environmental Safeguards

  • Finance
  • environmental justice
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
  • Finance
  • environmental justice
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
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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

An Action Plan for Environmental Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean

  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • poverty
  • public participation
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • poverty
  • public participation
Insights

4 Lessons on Environmental Sustainability that Every Corporation Should Learn

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business