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When Non-state Actors Are Transparent About their Climate Actions, the Benefits Go Both Ways

  • Tracking Climate Action
  • corporate sustainability
  • climate policy
People on bicycles on a sunny street with palm trees and city buildings in the background.
  • Tracking Climate Action
  • corporate sustainability
  • climate policy
Technical Perspectives

How Multilateral Development Banks Can Use Policy-Based Financing to Support Climate-Resilient Economies

  • multilateral development banks
  • Climate
  • low carbon development
Women scoop up dirty water from a polluted lake in Chad.
  • multilateral development banks
  • Climate
  • low carbon development
Insights

3 Ways the Circular Economy Can Aid Climate Action

  • Business
  • corporate sustainability
  • adaptation
  • Clean Energy
Rooftop solar panels
  • Business
  • corporate sustainability
  • adaptation
  • Clean Energy

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
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The Bar for Corporate Climate Leadership Has Risen

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • corporate sustainability
  • science based targets
  • Business
London skyline
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • corporate sustainability
  • science based targets
  • Business
Insights

3 Ways to Ensure Corporate Net-zero Targets Are Credible

  • net-zero emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • corporate sustainability
Wind turbines in Rubió, Spain
  • net-zero emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • corporate sustainability

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
Insights

5 Ways the World Bank’s Climate Action Plan Could Go Further

  • multilateral development banks
  • International Climate Action
  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
Wind Park near Kavarna, Bulgaria.
  • multilateral development banks
  • International Climate Action
  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
Initiatives

Cities4Forests

Pond and trees in front of city skyline.
Insights
Banks could be more transparent about their climate progress.
  • Finance
  • multilateral development banks
Insights

MDB Climate Finance in 2016: The Good, the Bad and the Urgent

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
Researcher pulls up mangrove roots for carbon stock assessment, Kalimantan, Indonesia
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • multilateral development banks
News

RELEASE: WRI Selects Paula Caballero to Lead Climate Program

  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • sustainable development goals
  • UNFCCC
  • multilateral development banks
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • sustainable development goals
  • UNFCCC
  • multilateral development banks

STATEMENT: At COP21, Heads of State and Institutions Call for Pricing Carbon

  • carbon pricing
  • COP21
  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
  • carbon pricing
  • COP21
  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
Insights

Let's Make It Earth and Prosperity Day

  • Finance
  • Economics
  • climate change
  • poverty
  • corporate sustainability
You can’t tackle poverty and spur economic growth without protecting the environment, and you can’t protect the environment without finding ways to make the economy grow while improving people’s lives. Photo by Global Water Partnership/Flickr.
  • Finance
  • Economics
  • climate change
  • poverty
  • corporate sustainability

3 Promising Pathways to Finance Sustainable Cities

  • Cities
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • COP20
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
  • Paris Agreement
  • transportation
Leaders at COP20 can explore a range of sources for financing low-carbon urban development including multilateral investment banks, private investors, and innovative initatives like the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions or climate-themed bonds. (Mexico City, Mexico) Photo by Boris G/Flickr.
  • Cities
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • COP20
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
  • Paris Agreement
  • transportation
Insights

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
Insights

Q&A with Dr. Karin Kemper: How Is the World Bank Addressing Climate Change?

  • Energy
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • international climate policy
  • multilateral development banks
Dr. Kemper shared plans to more fully incorporate sustainability—including climate change mitigation and adaptation—into its international development agenda. Photo credit: Dhilung Kirat, Flickr 2008
  • Energy
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • international climate policy
  • multilateral development banks
Insights

2 Big Issues to Tackle as the Green Climate Fund Sets Up Shop

  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
  • multilateral development banks
This week, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) celebrated the official opening of its headquarters in Songdo, Korea. Photo credit: World Bank, Flickr
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
  • multilateral development banks