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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
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
Cities
Insights
December 18, 2019

We're Underestimating How Many People Lack Sanitation Services—and Ignoring the Best Solution for Many Cities

  • cities for all
  • sanitation
  • waste
  • Cities
  • world resources report
Polluter waterways carry impacts of poor sanitation citywide. Photo by SusanA Secretariat/Flickr
  • cities for all
  • sanitation
  • waste
  • Cities
  • world resources report
Cities
Asia Latin America
News
December 18, 2019

RELEASE: Safe, Affordable Sanitation a Pipe Dream for Too Many Households in Global South

  • cities for all
  • sanitation
  • waste
  • Cities
  • health
  • sustainable cities
  • cities for all
  • sanitation
  • waste
  • Cities
  • health
  • sustainable cities
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
Energy
Insights
April 30, 2019

Kenya’s Farmers Battle Drought through Biodiesel Made from Cotton Waste

  • Humans of Clean Energy
  • waste
  • Energy
Abel Mutie, a Kenyan farmer
  • Humans of Clean Energy
  • waste
  • Energy
Asia
Asia
Insights
March 25, 2019

Urban Transformations: In Pune, India, Waste Pickers Go from Trash to Treasure

  • Cities
  • Urban Transformations
  • waste
  • human rights
  • India
  • poverty
  • sustainable cities
Members of a waste-pickers cooperative push collection carts along the streets of Pune, India
  • Cities
  • Urban Transformations
  • waste
  • human rights
  • India
  • poverty
  • sustainable cities
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
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
Asia
Insights
March 22, 2017

From Waste to Watts: How Sewage Could Help Fix India's Water, Energy and Sanitation Woes

  • Water
  • Aqueduct
  • waste
  • India
  • renewable energy
  • wastewater
  • water
  • Water Quality
  • water stress
Unkal tank
  • Water
  • Aqueduct
  • waste
  • India
  • renewable energy
  • wastewater
  • water
  • Water Quality
  • water stress
Finance
Data
December 14, 2016

Upstream Emissions as a Percentage of Overall Lifecycle Emissions

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • business risk
  • climate change
  • emissions
  • emissions inventories
  • fossil fuels
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • oil and gas
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • business risk
  • climate change
  • emissions
  • emissions inventories
  • fossil fuels
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • oil and gas
North America
Insights
August 25, 2016

It’s Time for US Federal Contractors to Measure their Carbon Footprints

  • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
  • Business
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • greenhouse gases
United States Department of Energy Forrestal Building
  • Corporate Climate Policy Leadership
  • Business
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • greenhouse gases
Water
Insights
April 6, 2016

Companies Could Profit from Setting Water Targets Informed by Science

  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • climate science
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • water
  • water risk
Irrigation System
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • climate science
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • water
  • water risk
Climate
Research
December 1, 2015

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