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  • commodities
  • global forest watch
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A New Tool Can Help Root Out Deforestation from Complex Supply Chains

  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • mapping
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  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • mapping
Insights

Many Companies Inaccurately Estimate the Climate Benefits of Their Products

  • Business
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
Ball bearings are one of the many products affected by unverifiable claims of avoided emissions. Flickr/jfeathersmith
  • Business
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
News

ADVISORY: WRI’s Stories to Watch 2019

  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • data
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • Business
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • data
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • Business
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
Insights

Perimeter Defense: 4 Technologies for Detecting and Preventing Illegal Logging

  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
  • mapping
Some forest managers are using drones to monitor trees and wildlife. Photo by John Mills/Flickr
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
  • mapping
Insights

New Technology Can Help Ensure that Protected Areas Stay Protected

  • data
  • deforestation
  • mapping
The world has more than 177,000 protected areas, all of which require proper management to prevent harmful and illegal activities. Photo credit: Garrett Ziegler, Flickr
  • data
  • deforestation
  • mapping

A New Strategy to Improve Water Quality—One Targeted Watershed at a Time

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
More than 15,000 streams, rivers, and lakes are too polluted with nutrient runoff to support wildlife, be enjoyed recreationally, or serve as a drinking water source. Photo credit: USDA
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
Initiatives
This website serves as an information portal about eutrophication—the over-enrichment of water by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus—a leading threat to water quality around the world. Explore our interactive map and learn more.
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New Guidance Makes Corporate Value Chain Accounting Easier

  • Business
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG Protocol
  • Business
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG Protocol

Can Nutrient Trading Shrink the Gulf of Mexico's Dead Zone?

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
Dead fish resulting from toxins or oxygen depletion in Lake Binder, Iowa. Photo credit: Dr. Jennifer L. Graham, U.S. Geological Survey
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater

Saving the World's Forests: A Technology Revolution to Curb Illegal Logging

  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
  • mapping
Our future is inextricably linked to forests. The social and economic benefits they provide are essential to realizing a sustainable century. Photo credit: CIFOR, Flickr 2008
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
  • mapping

RELEASE: New Mapping Tool Provides Unprecedented Ability to Assess Water Risk

  • climate change
  • mapping
  • Business
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
  • water risk
  • climate change
  • mapping
  • Business
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
  • water risk
Research

Two Degrees of Innovation

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