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World Economic Forum
  • Business
  • Economics
Insights

Bad Air to Better Oceans: 6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2018

  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • Ocean
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Aqueduct
  • stories to watch
  • Air Quality
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • Ocean
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Aqueduct
  • stories to watch
  • Air Quality
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
News

RELEASE: The Future Depends on Decoupling Business Growth from Resource Use

  • public transit
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Economics
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • public transit
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Economics
  • Business
  • agriculture
Insights

Shifting to a Clean Energy Economy Would Bring Billions in Economic Benefits, Shows New Report

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Economics
  • Business
  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • GHG emissions
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy
Wind turbines
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Economics
  • Business
  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • GHG emissions
  • renewable energy
  • U.S. policy
Insights

Reimagining Black Friday: Business Models Based on Services, Not Stuff

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Economics
  • Business
Black Friday shoppers
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Economics
  • Business
Insights
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  • Business
  • Economics
  • renewable energy
Insights

Business Helped Make the Paris Agreement Possible

  • Business
  • Economics
  • carbon pricing
  • COP21
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • renewable energy
Paris at night during COP21. Photo credit: Deborah Zabarenko
  • Business
  • Economics
  • carbon pricing
  • COP21
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • renewable energy
Insights

Can Clean Distributed Energy Solutions Close Africa’s Access Gap?

  • Energy Access
  • Energy
  • Business
  • Economics
  • development
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
Solar speciality shop in Gulu, Uganda. Photo by James Anderson/Flickr.
  • Energy Access
  • Energy
  • Business
  • Economics
  • development
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
News

RELEASE: Global Commission Finds Economic Growth Can Close the Emissions Gap

  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Economics
  • climate policy
  • Business
  • energy efficiency
  • Finance
  • renewable energy
  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Economics
  • climate policy
  • Business
  • energy efficiency
  • Finance
  • renewable energy
Insights

Extending Indonesia’s Forest Moratorium Is a Win for Business

  • deforestation
  • Economics
  • biodiversity
  • Business
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • Economics
  • biodiversity
  • Business
  • Forests
Insights

“Revaluing” Ecosystems to Include Nature’s Value on Balance Sheets

  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Economics
  • natural infrastructure
  • Business
  • natural resources
While oceans support lucrative fisheries, these benefits are rarely accounted for in ledgers. Photo by Pedro Ramirez Jr./U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Economics
  • natural infrastructure
  • Business
  • natural resources

A New Climate Economy: Shifting Corporate America onto a Low-Carbon Path

  • Energy
  • Economics
  • Business
  • climate change
  • U.S. policy
From left to right: Amy Harder, Chad Holliday, Ken Gayer, and Andrew Steer. Photo credit: Bill Dugan, WRI
  • Energy
  • Economics
  • Business
  • climate change
  • U.S. policy

Seeing U.S. Business Opportunity in a Low-Carbon Economy

  • Business
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • low carbon development
A growing body of evidence indicates we don’t have to choose between improving economic performance and reducing climate risk  Photo credit: CGP Grey/Flickr
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • low carbon development
  • Energy
  • Business
  • Economics
  • pollution
  • U.S. policy
News

STATEMENT: WRI Responds to New Climate Economy Report

  • Business
  • climate change
  • Economics
  • Business
  • climate change
  • Economics
Insights

By the Numbers: The New Climate Economy

  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • energy efficiency
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
A new report shows that economic growth and action on climate change can now be achieved together. Photo credit: Walmart, Flickr
  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • energy efficiency
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
Insights

Signs of Progress at World Economic Forum’s Climate Day

  • Business
  • climate change
  • Economics
For the first time, the World Economic Forum hosted an official "Climate Day." Photo credit: Andy Mettler, World Economic Forum
  • Business
  • climate change
  • Economics
Initiatives

Aqueduct

Ariel shot of a river in Brazil
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Water Risk to Business Is No Small Drip

  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • mapping
  • Freshwater
  • Economics
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • mapping
  • Freshwater
  • Economics
Insights

How Can We Pay for Green Growth? New Report Provides Answers

  • Climate
  • Business
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • low carbon development
  • Economics
  • Climate
  • Business
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
  • low carbon development
  • Economics