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How Cacao Can Do So Much More Than Make Chocolate

  • circular economy
  • Food
  • Business
  • natural resources
Farmers in Ghana prepare cacao for processing
  • circular economy
  • Food
  • Business
  • natural resources

The SEC’s New Climate Rule is Plain Common Sense

  • climate policy
  • corporate sustainability
  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • Paying for Paris
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters building in Washington, DC.
  • climate policy
  • corporate sustainability
  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • Paying for Paris

How to Write an Impactful Corporate Climate Statement

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate policy
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  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate policy
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From Pledges to Action: What’s Next for COP26 Corporate Commitments

  • COP26
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • corporate sustainability
  • climate policy
  • deforestation
  • renewable energy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • net-zero emissions
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  • COP26
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • corporate sustainability
  • climate policy
  • deforestation
  • renewable energy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • net-zero emissions

6 Ways Large Energy Buyers  Can Transform the US Electrical Grid 

  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. Climate
  • electric grid
  • Business
  • corporate sustainability
  • COP26
Dillon Wind Power Project
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. Climate
  • electric grid
  • Business
  • corporate sustainability
  • COP26

STATEMENT: New Coalition Calls for the US To Go "All In" on Climate Action

  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • Business
  • Cities
  • U.S. Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • Business
  • Cities
  • U.S. Climate

Support for Climate Policy is Alive and Well in Corporate America

  • coronavirus
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • Climate
  • Business
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  • coronavirus
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • Climate
  • Business
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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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Attention Businesses: Don't Let Your Trade Associations Undermine You on Climate Action

  • climate policy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
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  • climate policy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
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RELEASE: Major environmental groups call on businesses to lead on climate policy

  • science based targets
  • climate policy
  • Business
  • science based targets
  • climate policy
  • Business

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

  • electric grid
  • Business
  • renewable energy
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  • electric grid
  • Business
  • renewable energy
News

ADVISORY: WRI’s Stories to Watch 2019

  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • data
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • Business
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • data
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • Business
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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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The Apparel Industry’s Environmental Impact in 6 Graphics

  • climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • Freshwater
Various piles of clothing strewn across a factory floor with two people sorting through the piles.
  • climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • Freshwater

States Use Renewable Energy to Win Corporate Business

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • electric grid
  • Energy Access
  • renewable energy
U.S. solar farm
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • electric grid
  • Energy Access
  • renewable energy
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Kentucky Can Shape A Clean Energy Future

  • electric grid
  • fossil fuels
  • Business
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
Field in Kentucky
  • electric grid
  • fossil fuels
  • Business
  • Energy
  • renewable energy

Microsoft and Local Utility Partner to Green Virginia’s Grid

  • Energy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • electric grid
  • renewable energy
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  • Energy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • electric grid
  • renewable energy
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L’Accord de Paris : Un Tournant Clé Vers une Solution Pour le Climat

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Business
  • COP21
  • GHG emissions
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • UNFCCC
 Accord de Paris a adopté
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Business
  • COP21
  • GHG emissions
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • UNFCCC
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The Paris Agreement: Turning Point for a Climate Solution

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Business
  • COP21
  • GHG emissions
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • UNFCCC
Paris Agreement adopted. Photo credit WRI
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Business
  • COP21
  • GHG emissions
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • UNFCCC

Corporations Can Drive Down Renewable Energy’s Cost

  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • electric grid
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
The electricity system will have to be decarbonized, probably more quickly than many in the sector are comfortable with. Working with large buyers that want to move quickly could lead to decarbonizing in an orderly way that drives down the cost for everyone. Photo by Windwärts Energie/Flickr
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • electric grid
  • Energy
  • renewable energy