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    Equity & Governance
    News
    September 9, 2019

    RELEASE: Global Leaders Call for Urgent Action on Climate Adaptation; Commission Finds Adaptation Can Deliver $7.1 Trillion in Benefits

    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • Business
    • adaptation finance
    • infrastructure
    • agriculture
    • hurricanes
    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • Business
    • adaptation finance
    • infrastructure
    • agriculture
    • hurricanes
    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
    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
    Business
    Insights
    March 2, 2017

    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
    Climate
    Insights
    December 14, 2016

    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
    North America
    Insights
    August 25, 2016

    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
    Climate
    Insights
    May 6, 2016

    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
    Climate
    Insights
    February 24, 2016

    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
    Climate
    Insights
    December 8, 2015

    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
    Climate
    Insights
    May 20, 2015

    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
    Freshwater
    Insights
    March 19, 2015

    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
    Climate
    Insights
    February 11, 2015

    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
    Energy
    Africa
    Insights
    October 1, 2014

    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
    Climate
    Insights
    August 4, 2014

    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
    Climate
    Latin America
    News
    May 29, 2014

    RELEASE: First Ever Agriculture Guidance Empowers Companies to Measure and Manage Emissions

    • agriculture
    • Business
    • climate change
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • agriculture
    • Business
    • climate change
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    Asia
    Insights
    September 24, 2013

    New Greenhouse Gas Accounting Tool Will Help China’s Cities Pursue Low-Carbon Development

    • Business
    • Cities
    • climate change
    • GHG Protocol
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • greenhouse gases
    Nanjing Road, Shanghai. Photo credit: Austronesian Expeditions, Flickr
    • Business
    • Cities
    • climate change
    • GHG Protocol
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • greenhouse gases
    Business
    Asia
    News
    September 12, 2013

    RELEASE: Launch of the First Greenhouse Gas Accounting Tool for Chinese Cities

    • Cities
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • GHG Protocol
    • low carbon development
    • Cities
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • GHG Protocol
    • low carbon development
    Business
    Insights
    September 12, 2013

    3 Beginning Steps to Designing a National Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program

    • Business
    • climate change
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • low carbon development
    A thermal power station in Takoradi, Ghana. Photo credit: Jonathan Ernst, World Bank
    • Business
    • climate change
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • low carbon development
    Business
    Insights
    April 25, 2013

    New Guidance Makes Corporate Value Chain Accounting Easier

    • Business
    • climate change
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • GHG Protocol
    • Business
    • climate change
    • greenhouse gas accounting
    • GHG Protocol
    Freshwater
    Asia Africa North America
    News
    January 30, 2013

    RELEASE: New Mapping Tool Provides Unprecedented Ability to Assess Water Risk

    • climate change
    • mapping
    • Business
    • Freshwater
    • Water Quality
    • water risk
    • climate change
    • mapping
    • Business
    • Freshwater
    • Water Quality
    • water risk

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