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The World Is Burning. Here Are 5 Things Companies Should Do About It.

  • Sustainable Development Goal 8
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
Wildfire in California.
  • Sustainable Development Goal 8
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
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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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4 Ways Companies Can Show Climate Leadership

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
Canary Wharf
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
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3 Reasons Why Fossil Fuel Companies Should Disclose Their Reserves

  • Energy
  • Business
  • climate science
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
Coal Barge
  • Energy
  • Business
  • climate science
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
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It’s Time for US Federal Contractors to Measure their Carbon Footprints

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • greenhouse gases
United States Department of Energy Forrestal Building
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • greenhouse gases
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Setting Science-Based Emissions Targets: 5 Companies Offer Lessons for Success

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
Renewable energy in Enkenbach-Alsenborn
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
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Science Will Help Push Companies Towards a Low-Carbon Future

  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • U.S. policy
  • GHG Protocol
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • U.S. policy
  • GHG Protocol
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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
  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • pollution
  • water risk
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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
  • water risk
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4 Questions About Corporate Emissions, Answered through New Interactive Tool

  • International Climate Action
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
Industry
  • International Climate Action
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
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This is Leadership: Why Companies Are Setting Emissions Goals Based on Science

  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • greenhouse gases
The Science-Based Targets initiative aims to enlist 100 companies to setting greenhouse gas reduction targets based on the latest climate science. Photo by Stephanie Meshke/Flickr
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • greenhouse gases
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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
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How Do You Measure the Emissions Locked in Fossil Fuel Reserves?

  • Energy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • 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
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • fossil fuels

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
  • Business
  • 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
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Finding Solutions for South Africa’s Coal-Fired Energy and Water Problems

  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • fossil fuels
  • Water Quality
  • water risk
A communal water tap in Soweto, South Africa. Photo credit: E. Muench, Wikimedia Commons
  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • fossil fuels
  • Water Quality
  • water risk

A Tale of 3 Countries: Water Risks to Global Shale Development

  • Energy
  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • fossil fuels
  • water risk
Shale gas drilling site in Pennsylvania. Photo Credit: Nicholas Tonelli/Flickr
  • Energy
  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • fossil fuels
  • water risk
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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
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Conflicting Reporting Systems May Hinder Companies' Water Risk Strategies

  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • data
  • mapping
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
A tugboat pushes barges on the Mississippi River. Photo credit: Tom Gill, Flickr
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • data
  • mapping
  • Freshwater
  • water risk