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    Business Business Insights
    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    June 17, 2019

    Besides Buying Renewables, How Can Companies and Cities Create a Greener Grid?

    • electric grid
    • Business
    • renewable energy
    Power transmission lines seen from below.
    • electric grid
    • Business
    • renewable energy
    Forests
    Insights
    June 10, 2019

    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
    • mapping
    Business
    Insights
    May 21, 2019

    3 Ways Businesses Can Lead the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

    • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
    • Business
    Companies can play a key role in climate leadership.
    • The $26 Trillion Opportunity
    • Business
    Business
    North America
    Insights
    April 15, 2019

    5 Ways to Unlock the Value of the Circular Economy

    • circular economy
    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    Recycling's good. Reducing's better. Flickr/mbeo
    • circular economy
    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    April 10, 2019

    3 Ways Business Must Use Political Influence to Champion Climate Ambition

    • Business
    • International Climate Action
    • climate change
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    Climate leaders lobby for climate action. Flickr/Phil Roeder
    • Business
    • International Climate Action
    • climate change
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    Forests
    Insights
    March 5, 2019

    The Data Revolution Hasn't Yet Hit Agriculture

    • data
    • Business
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • food security
    • Forests
    Farmer harvests wheat in Mojo, Ethiopia. Photo by Peter Lowe/CIMMYT
    • data
    • Business
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • food security
    • Forests
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    February 5, 2019

    For Small Businesses in Africa, Climate Resilience Is an Economic Opportunity

    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate Resilience
    • Sustainable Development Goal 1
    • restoration
    • Business
    Herders with cattle in Tigray, Ethiopia. Mohammed Bakarr / GEF
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate Resilience
    • Sustainable Development Goal 1
    • restoration
    • Business
    Insights
    January 11, 2019

    7 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2019

    • Finance
    • Climate
    • U.S. Climate
    • Forests
    • Cities
    • Business
    • biking
    • circular economy
    • stories to watch
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • international climate policy
    • Health & Road Safety
    California wildfire
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • U.S. Climate
    • Forests
    • Cities
    • Business
    • biking
    • circular economy
    • stories to watch
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • international climate policy
    • Health & Road Safety
    Business
    Insights
    November 27, 2018

    The Key to Faster, Zero-Carbon Growth? Harness the Ambition Loop

    • Paris Agreement
    • Business
    • International Climate Action
    • Climate
    • climate change
    Spiral staircase
    • Paris Agreement
    • Business
    • International Climate Action
    • Climate
    • climate change
    Finance
    Insights
    September 6, 2018

    4 Lessons from WRI’s Sustainable Investing Journey: A CFO’s Perspective

    • Finance
    • Business
    Black Rock Solar photovoltaic array at Food Bank of Northern Nevada
    • Finance
    • Business
    Finance
    Insights
    September 6, 2018

    Learning by Doing: Lessons from WRI’s Sustainable Investing Journey

    • Finance
    • Business
    NYSE-floor
    • Finance
    • Business
    Business
    Insights
    August 28, 2018

    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
    Business
    Insights
    July 31, 2018

    The Sustainable Development Goals: An Opportunity for Business?

    • sustainable development goals
    • Business
    Kevin Moss, WRI
    • sustainable development goals
    • Business
    Food
    Latin America
    Insights
    July 17, 2018

    How Cocoa Farming Can Preserve Forests and Peace in Colombia

    • Forests
    • Business
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • low carbon development
    Cocoa farmer
    • Forests
    • Business
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • low carbon development
    Business
    Insights
    May 24, 2018

    Barriers to a Circular Economy: 5 Reasons the World Wastes So Much Stuff (and Why It's Not Just the Consumer's Fault)

    • circular economy
    • waste
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Plastic pollution piles up on a beach on Clipperton Atoll in the Pacific.
    • circular economy
    • waste
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    May 17, 2018

    As Apple, Google and Others Promote Renewable Power, What Is the Best Way to Evaluate Corporate Energy Leadership?

    • adaptation finance
    • Business
    • renewable energy
    Solar panels installed at the Googleplex.
    • adaptation finance
    • Business
    • renewable energy
    Asia
    Insights
    April 4, 2018

    4 Ways Companies Can Price Carbon: Lessons from India

    • carbon pricing
    • Business
    • Climate
    Indian factory worker
    • carbon pricing
    • Business
    • Climate
    Forests
    Asia
    Insights
    March 30, 2018

    Smallholder Farmers Are Key to Making the Palm Oil Industry Sustainable

    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • Forests
    • commodities
    Indonesian palm oil
    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • Forests
    • commodities

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