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Pour la durabilité de la production du cacao, les pays et les sociétés doivent s’engager

  • Climate
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • International Climate Action
  • Climate Resilience
Producteur de cacao en Colombie.
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  • International Climate Action
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For Sustainability in Cocoa Production, Both Countries and Companies Need to Commit

  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
Cacao farmer in Colombia. Flickr/World Bank Photo Collection
  • commodities
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  • Business
  • International Climate Action
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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
Oil palm
  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • Forests
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Smallholder Farmers Are Key to Making the Palm Oil Industry Sustainable

  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • commodities
Indonesian palm oil
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  • deforestation
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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
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  • Freshwater
  • Cities
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  • Economics
  • Aqueduct
  • stories to watch
  • Air Quality
  • climate change
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  • fossil fuels
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Reflections on Leonardo DiCaprio’s New Climate Change Film, Before the Flood

  • Climate
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  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
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  • climate change
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Young orangutan
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Linking Products to Places: The Initiatives Working to End Deforestation

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  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • mapping
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Harvesting logs in Malaysia.
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What Are the Environmental Costs of Valentine’s Day Flowers?

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

  • Freshwater
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  • Aqueduct
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • water risk
Power plant and water
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  • Energy
  • renewable energy
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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
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6 Stories to Watch in 2015: Global Climate Deal, Sustainable Development Goals, Rising Water Risks and More

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  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Forests
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  • Cities
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • climate change
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  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • UNFCCC
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  • 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
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WRI’s Top Outcomes of 2014

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  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
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  • Cities
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During "Raaghiri Days" in Indian cities, streets are closed to cars to encourage walking and biking. Photo by Carol Mitchell/Flickr
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Intelligent Imagining: Scenarios to Manage Water as the Climate Changes

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

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  • fossil fuels
  • Water Quality
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A communal water tap in Soweto, South Africa. Photo credit: E. Muench, Wikimedia Commons
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A Tale of 3 Countries: Water Risks to Global Shale Development

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  • fossil fuels
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Shale gas drilling site in Pennsylvania. Photo Credit: Nicholas Tonelli/Flickr
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Three Reasons Investors Are Beginning to Take Sustainability Seriously

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  • Climate
  • climate change
  • commodities
Palm oil plantation workers in Sumatra, Indonesia. Wilmar, a leading Asian agribusiness group, which trades more than 45 percent of the global palm oil supply, is committed to a deforestation-free supply chain. Photo Credit: CIFOR/Flickr
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  • Climate
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3 Tales of Hope for a Low-Carbon Future

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  • Finance
  • climate change
  • deforestation
  • low carbon development
  • commodities
At last week's "Ascent" meeting in Abu Dhabi, clubs of countries and companies committed to double the share of renewable energy and the pace of energy efficiency gains. Photo credit: CoCreatr, Flickr
  • Energy
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  • Finance
  • climate change
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  • low carbon development
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5 Overlooked Deforestation Hotspots

  • Forests
  • Business
  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
  • commodities
Marahoué National Park in the Ivory Coast has lost 93% of its forest cover between 2002 and 2008. Photo credit: jbdodane, Flickr 2013
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Conflicting Reporting Systems May Hinder Companies' Water Risk Strategies

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  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • data
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  • Freshwater
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A tugboat pushes barges on the Mississippi River. Photo credit: Tom Gill, Flickr
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3 Ways to Achieve Zero Tropical Deforestation by 2020

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  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
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Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset