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Bad Air to Better Oceans: 6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2018

  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • Ocean
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Aqueduct
  • stories to watch
  • Air Quality
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • Ocean
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Aqueduct
  • stories to watch
  • Air Quality
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
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What Are the Environmental Costs of Valentine’s Day Flowers?

  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • pollution
  • water risk
Roses bought for Valentine's Day.
  • Forests
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  • Business
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  • agriculture
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  • pollution
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Solving the Twin Crises of Energy and Water Scarcity

  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • water risk
Power plant and water
  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
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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
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Business Helped Make the Paris Agreement Possible

  • Business
  • Economics
  • carbon pricing
  • COP21
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • renewable energy
Paris at night during COP21. Photo credit: Deborah Zabarenko
  • Business
  • Economics
  • carbon pricing
  • COP21
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • renewable energy
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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
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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
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Corporate Renewable Energy Buyers Can Support National Climate Plans

  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Business
  • COP21
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • renewable energy
thin-film solar
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Business
  • COP21
  • climate change
  • NDC
  • renewable energy
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3 Key Questions for the Energy Industry Around a Global Climate Agreement

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Business
  • COP21
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • renewable energy
  • UNFCCC
COP21 march in London
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Business
  • COP21
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • renewable energy
  • UNFCCC
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5 Numbers: What the Paris Climate Talks Have Already Delivered

  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Cities
  • Business
  • COP21
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
COP21
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Cities
  • Business
  • COP21
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
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5 Principles to Guide Financial Institution Action on Climate Change

  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • COP21
  • Business
  • climate finance
  • Finance
Paris skyline
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • COP21
  • Business
  • climate finance
  • Finance

6 Ways to Make Small Businesses More Resilient to Climate Change

  • Climate Resilience
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • Business
  • COP21
  • climate change
Rural Ghana
  • Climate Resilience
  • Finance
  • Climate
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  • COP21
  • climate change
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Business and Climate Action: The Times They Are A-Changin'

  • International Climate Action
  • Business
  • COP21
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
Hundreds of business leaders are gathering at COP 21 in Paris. Photo by Yann Caradec/Flickr
  • International Climate Action
  • Business
  • COP21
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
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4 Corporate Carbon Pricing Do’s and Don’ts

  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Business
  • carbon pricing
  • COP21
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • GHG emissions
Power plant
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Business
  • carbon pricing
  • COP21
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • GHG emissions
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Science-based Emissions Targets: The Key to Sending a Strong Corporate Signal Before COP 21

  • International Climate Action
  • Business
  • COP21
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
Nearly 90 companies have committed to set a science-based emissions-reduction target. Photo by Mike Steinhoff/Flickr
  • International Climate Action
  • Business
  • COP21
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC

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
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Water Stewardship: Good for Business, Good for Sustainable Development

  • Aqueduct
  • Business
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
  • water risk
River Hubelj in Slovenia. Photo by nejcbole/Flickr
  • Aqueduct
  • Business
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
  • water risk

6 Stories to Watch in 2015: Global Climate Deal, Sustainable Development Goals, Rising Water Risks and More

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • UNFCCC
  • United Nations
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
  • stories to watch
Andrew Steer presented 2015's Stories to Watch before a packed house at the Press Club in Washington, D.C. Photo by Bill Dugan/WRI
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • UNFCCC
  • United Nations
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
  • stories to watch

WRI’s Top Outcomes of 2014

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
During "Raaghiri Days" in Indian cities, streets are closed to cars to encourage walking and biking. Photo by Carol Mitchell/Flickr
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
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  • Aqueduct

Intelligent Imagining: Scenarios to Manage Water as the Climate Changes

  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate change
A watershed in the Central American Dryland Corridor, a protected area meant to foster biodiversity and sustainable development, in Trifinio, Guatemala. Photo Credit: Paul Reig/WRI
  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate change