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    Business development GHG emissions
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    June 16, 2022

    The SEC’s New Climate Rule is Plain Common Sense

    • climate policy
    • corporate sustainability
    • Business
    • GHG emissions
    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters building in Washington, DC.
    • climate policy
    • corporate sustainability
    • Business
    • GHG emissions
    Business
    North America
    Insights
    April 12, 2021

    Trade Associations Speak on Carbon Pricing. Will Action Follow?

    • carbon pricing
    • GHG emissions
    Emissions coming from a factory with a gray sky in the background.
    • carbon pricing
    • GHG emissions
    Insights
    December 21, 2016

    Shifting to a Clean Energy Economy Would Bring Billions in Economic Benefits, Shows New Report

    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Economics
    • Business
    • climate change
    • energy efficiency
    • GHG emissions
    • renewable energy
    • U.S. policy
    Wind turbines
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Economics
    • Business
    • climate change
    • energy efficiency
    • GHG emissions
    • renewable energy
    • U.S. policy
    Finance
    Data
    December 14, 2016

    Upstream Emissions as a Percentage of Overall Lifecycle Emissions

    • Climate
    • Energy
    • Business
    • climate change
    • emissions
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • fossil fuels
    • GHG emissions
    • Climate
    • Energy
    • Business
    • climate change
    • emissions
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • fossil fuels
    • GHG emissions
    Equity
    North America
    Insights
    July 7, 2016

    Cutting Your Corporate Carbon Footprint? Why You Should Use Science-Based Targets

    • Climate
    • Business
    • GHG emissions
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • climate science
    Renewable energy can help companies reach carbon-cutting goals. Photo Credit: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/92688599@N00/2302264331/">Wavy1</a> via <a href="http://compfight.com">Compfight</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">cc</a>
    • Climate
    • Business
    • GHG emissions
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • climate science
    Climate
    Insights
    December 30, 2015

    Top 5 Corporate Sustainability Stories of 2015

    • Business
    • COP21
    • GHG emissions
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    U.S. President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and other heads of state at COP21. Credit: White House
    • Business
    • COP21
    • GHG emissions
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    Equity
    Insights
    December 16, 2015

    L’Accord de Paris : Un Tournant Clé Vers une Solution Pour le Climat

    • Finance
    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • Business
    • COP21
    • GHG emissions
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate policy
    • UNFCCC
    Accord de Paris a adopté
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • Business
    • COP21
    • GHG emissions
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate policy
    • UNFCCC
    Equity
    Insights
    December 12, 2015

    The Paris Agreement: Turning Point for a Climate Solution

    • Finance
    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • Business
    • COP21
    • GHG emissions
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate policy
    • UNFCCC
    Paris Agreement adopted. Photo credit WRI
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • Business
    • COP21
    • GHG emissions
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate policy
    • UNFCCC
    Climate
    News
    December 8, 2015

    RELEASE: 114 Companies Commit to Set Ambitious Science-Based Emissions Reduction Targets, Surpassing Goal

    • International Climate Action
    • Business
    • COP21
    • GHG emissions
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • climate science
    • emissions
    • International Climate Action
    • Business
    • COP21
    • GHG emissions
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • climate science
    • emissions
    Business
    Research
    December 1, 2015

    Walking the Talk

    Africa
    Insights
    October 5, 2015

    Can Clean Distributed Energy Solutions Close Africa’s Access Gap?

    • Energy Access
    • Energy
    • Business
    • Economics
    • development
    • low carbon development
    • renewable energy
    Solar speciality shop in Gulu, Uganda. Photo by James Anderson/Flickr.
    • Energy Access
    • Energy
    • Business
    • Economics
    • development
    • low carbon development
    • renewable energy
    Climate
    Insights
    September 25, 2015

    The Business Case for Science-Based Targets to Reduce Emissions

    • climate science
    • Business
    • emissions
    • GHG emissions
    69 companies, including Honda, Nestlé and Hewlett-Packard have committed to setting these science-based targets to cut their greenhouse emissions, and some have publicly announced them. Photo by UN/Flickr.
    • climate science
    • Business
    • emissions
    • GHG emissions
    Equity
    North America
    Insights
    August 6, 2015

    Clean Power Plan Can Help States, Economy and Planet

    • U.S. Climate
    • Energy
    • GHG emissions
    • climate policy
    • Business
    • energy efficiency
    • renewable energy
    • COP21
    NASA image courtesy of the DSCOVR EPIC team
    • U.S. Climate
    • Energy
    • GHG emissions
    • climate policy
    • Business
    • energy efficiency
    • renewable energy
    • COP21
    Climate
    Insights
    February 11, 2015

    How Do You Measure the Emissions Locked in Fossil Fuel Reserves?

    • Energy
    • Business
    • climate change
    • emissions
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • GHG emissions
    • fossil fuels
    If emissions continue unabated, the world is on track to exhaust its "carbon budget" within three decades. Photo by Mingjia Zhou/Flickr
    • Energy
    • Business
    • climate change
    • emissions
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • GHG emissions
    • fossil fuels
    Climate
    Insights
    August 4, 2014

    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

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