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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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By the Numbers: How Business Benefits from the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Business
  • sustainable development goals
field in Vietnam
  • Business
  • sustainable development goals
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  • Business
  • illegal logging
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Building a Sustainable Guitar: Mahogany

  • building a sustainable guitar
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
A twisting branch of mahogany
  • building a sustainable guitar
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
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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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Reflections on Leonardo DiCaprio’s New Climate Change Film, Before the Flood

  • Climate
  • floods
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • climate change
  • illegal logging
  • commodities
Young orangutan
  • Climate
  • floods
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • climate change
  • illegal logging
  • commodities

Building a Sustainable Guitar: Maple

  • building a sustainable guitar
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
Bigleaf maple forest.
  • building a sustainable guitar
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
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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
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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

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

4 Cutting-Edge Technologies to Catch Illegal Loggers

  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • illegal logging
Logging in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Ben Beiske/Flickr
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • illegal logging

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
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4 Actions Companies Can Take to Source Legal Wood

  • forest products
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
  • corporate sustainability
  • Business
Some countries have harvest or export bans on certain species or certain forms of harvested timber. It is important for companies to consider which timber species they are using and where they are purchasing from. Photo credit: Tim Gage, Flickr 2007
  • forest products
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
  • corporate sustainability
  • Business
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5 Things We Learned in 2013 that Could Move the Needle on Sustainability

  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Equity & Governance
  • Business
  • Finance
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • deforestation
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • water risk
New research shows that the world loses 50 soccer fields' of forest every minute of every day. Photo credit: Daniel Murdiyarso, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Equity & Governance
  • Business
  • Finance
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • deforestation
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • water risk
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset