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Consumer Goods Forum Commits to Halve Food Waste by 2025

  • corporate sustainability
  • Top Outcome: 2015
Two green trashbags filled with waste
  • corporate sustainability
  • Top Outcome: 2015
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Walking the Talk

5 Reasons Why US Climate Progress Will Continue Long After Paris

  • International Climate Action
  • COP21
  • climate change
  • U.S. policy
  • international climate policy
  • power plants
  • UNFCCC
Wind turbines in California. Photo by Vlasta Juricek/Flickr
  • International Climate Action
  • COP21
  • climate change
  • U.S. policy
  • international climate policy
  • power plants
  • UNFCCC

WRI Calls Publication of Clean Power Plan in Federal Register "A Key Milestone"

  • U.S. Climate
  • Energy
  • U.S. policy
  • pollution
  • power plants
  • U.S. Climate
  • Energy
  • U.S. policy
  • pollution
  • power plants
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  • GHG emissions
  • Energy
  • power plants
Insights

Big Data Improves Renewable Power Forecasts. Will It Help India?

  • Energy
  • power plants
  • renewable energy
Tamil Nadu is India's leading wind power state. (Zamin Uthukuli, Tamil Nadu, India) Photo by Dhruvaraj S/Flickr.
  • Energy
  • power plants
  • renewable energy

Interactive Graphic: What Do Your State’s Emissions Look Like?

  • data
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • U.S. policy
  • power plants
Electricity is the largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Photo byJarrett Callahan/Flickr
  • data
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • U.S. policy
  • power plants

5 Questions to Ask About EPA’s Forthcoming Clean Power Plan

  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • U.S. policy
  • power plants
Power plant in Springfield, Illinois. Photo by straightedge217/Flickr
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • U.S. policy
  • power plants
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India’s Supreme Court Reinforces Renewable Energy Targets for Industry

  • electric grid
  • Energy
  • power plants
  • renewable energy
Solar panels in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. Photo by Knut-Erik Helle/Flickr.
  • electric grid
  • Energy
  • power plants
  • renewable energy

10 Steps to Achieve the US Emissions-Reduction Target

  • International Climate Action
  • GHG emissions
  • climate change
  • U.S. policy
  • NDC
  • power plants
Coal-fired power plant in Fayette County, Texas. Photo by Larry D. Moore/Wikimedia Commons
  • International Climate Action
  • GHG emissions
  • climate change
  • U.S. policy
  • NDC
  • power plants

Déjà vu: Pushback to U.S. Clean Power Plan Reminiscent of 2011 Mercury Rule

  • Energy
  • electric grid
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • U.S. policy
  • power plants
  • renewable energy
Kentucky power plant. Photo by Cindy Cornett Seigle/Flickr
  • Energy
  • electric grid
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • U.S. policy
  • power plants
  • renewable energy
Insights

Let's Make It Earth and Prosperity Day

  • Finance
  • Economics
  • climate change
  • poverty
  • corporate sustainability
You can’t tackle poverty and spur economic growth without protecting the environment, and you can’t protect the environment without finding ways to make the economy grow while improving people’s lives. Photo by Global Water Partnership/Flickr.
  • Finance
  • Economics
  • climate change
  • poverty
  • corporate sustainability

After SOTU, it’s Time to Make Good on US Climate Action Commitments

  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • U.S. policy
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • power plants
  • UNFCCC
President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2015. Photo by Pete Souza/White House
  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • U.S. policy
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • power plants
  • UNFCCC

5 Ways Missouri Can Meet EPA’s Proposed Power Plant Standards

  • Energy
  • U.S. policy
  • pollution
  • power plants
  • renewable energy
EPA’s Clean Power Plan offers broad flexibility in how states can comply with their standards. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons
  • Energy
  • U.S. policy
  • pollution
  • power plants
  • renewable energy

3 Reasons Why the EPA Should Do More to Reduce Carbon Pollution from Power Plants

  • Energy
  • GHG emissions
  • U.S. policy
  • pollution
  • power plants
U.S. power plants emit more carbon pollution than all but four countries, and they’re responsible for a full one-third of national emissions.
  • Energy
  • GHG emissions
  • U.S. policy
  • pollution
  • power plants

RELEASE: New Analysis Highlights Opportunities for Economic Gains from Climate Action in the United States

  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • Energy
  • energy efficiency
  • power plants
  • U.S. policy
  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • Energy
  • energy efficiency
  • power plants
  • U.S. policy
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Sustainability at WRI: Our Annual Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Sustainability Report

  • Energy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG emissions
  • corporate sustainability
Where in the world is WRI traveling? To better understand our business travel emissions and develop metrics for tracking changes, we instituted performance indicators, including emissions per staff and top destinations. Photo Credit: WRI
  • Energy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG emissions
  • corporate sustainability

7 Charts Explain Changing U.S. Power Sector Emissions

  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • U.S. policy
  • power plants
Between 1973 and 2005, U.S. power sector CO2 emissions increased by almost 90 percent. Photo credit: Mike, Flickr
  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • U.S. policy
  • power plants