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5 Ways to Build an Equitable Ocean Economy

  • Equity & Governance
  • sustainable development goals
  • Economics
  • Business
  • Ocean
Traditional triangle-net fishing off the coast of Taiwan
  • Equity & Governance
  • sustainable development goals
  • Economics
  • Business
  • Ocean
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How Partnerships Can Turbo Charge Progress on the SDGs

  • sustainable development goals
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Finance
The inside of the European Parliament
  • sustainable development goals
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Finance
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How to Build a Circular Economy

  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • waste
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • natural resources
  • Climate
  • Food Loss and Waste
Two recycling facility workers next to bales of aluminum cans. Photo by Aaron Minnick | WRI.
  • Economics
  • circular economy
  • waste
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • natural resources
  • Climate
  • Food Loss and Waste
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What Makes a Partnership Transformational?

  • sustainable development goals
  • Business
  • Economics
Buses
  • sustainable development goals
  • Business
  • Economics
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Is the World on Track to Cut Food Loss and Waste in Half by 2030?

  • Food
  • Business
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
Too much food spoils or is thrown out rather than eaten.
  • Food
  • Business
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
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The Sustainable Development Goals: An Opportunity for Business?

  • sustainable development goals
  • Business
Kevin Moss, WRI
  • sustainable development goals
  • Business
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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
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Of Venomous Toads and Precious Jewels -- Farewell 2017!

  • U.S. Climate
  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • climate science
  • climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • Business
Cane toad
  • U.S. Climate
  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • climate science
  • climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • Business
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By the Numbers: How Business Benefits from the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Business
  • sustainable development goals
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  • Business
  • sustainable development goals
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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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2030 Champions Brings Together Business and Government to Cut US Food Waste

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
Bald Eagle at Tomoka Landfill
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
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How Mars and WRI Developed Science-based Sustainability Targets for Climate, Land, Water

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate science
  • Business
Forest in Thailand
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate science
  • Business
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3 Considerations When Solving the “Stuff Conundrum”

  • Economics
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • sustainable development goals
landfill
  • Economics
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • sustainable development goals

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
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How a Shrub in Africa Made Me Want to Change the Food Industry

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste
Daniel Vennard (left) poses with clippings from the shrub he discovered.
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • food security
  • Food Loss and Waste
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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

6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2016

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • Green Climate Fund
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy
  • stories to watch
Andrew Steer
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
  • Green Climate Fund
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy
  • stories to watch
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114 Companies Commit to Set Science-Based Emissions Targets

  • International Climate Action
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
Sydney skyline
  • International Climate Action
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
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The Business Case for Science-Based Targets to Reduce Emissions

  • climate science
  • Business
  • 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
  • GHG emissions
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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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