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Crystal Davis.
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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
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Two recycling facility workers next to bales of aluminum cans. Photo by Aaron Minnick | WRI.
  • Economics
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  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
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  • Climate
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Collective Action at the Crossroads: What to Watch in 2020

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  • Cities
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renewable energy
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Water Could Limit Our Ability to Feed the World. These 9 Graphics Explain Why

  • Aqueduct
  • agriculture
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  • water risk
Conventional sprinkler irrigation
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5 Ways to Put Food on a Water Diet

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  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • agriculture
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  • water risk
African woman watering garden
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Monster Avocados and Bread Beer: 12 Technologies Fighting Food Waste

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • agriculture
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Garbage bins
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Q&A: How a Cuban Name Change Boosted Panera’s Soup Sales

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  • Food
Black bean soup
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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
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Bad Air to Better Oceans: 6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2018

  • Equity & Governance
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  • Ocean
  • Climate
  • Energy
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  • Cities
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  • Economics
  • Aqueduct
  • stories to watch
  • Air Quality
  • climate change
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  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
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  • water risk
  • Equity & Governance
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  • Ocean
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  • Cities
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  • Economics
  • Aqueduct
  • stories to watch
  • Air Quality
  • climate change
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  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
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By the Numbers: The Business Case for Reducing Food Loss and Waste

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • sustainable development goals
Recycled bread rolls
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
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6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2017

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • stories to watch
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
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  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
  • UNFCCC
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Andrew Steer
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  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • stories to watch
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • fossil fuels
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  • international climate policy
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2030 Champions Brings Together Business and Government to Cut US Food Waste

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  • Business
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • food security
Bald Eagle at Tomoka Landfill
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4 Young People Providing Inspiring Solutions to Environmental Problems

  • climate change
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Biosphere 2 in Tucson, Arizona.
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RELEASE: New “Better Buying Lab” to Develop Sustainable Food Strategies

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  • Food
  • agriculture
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
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How a Shrub in Africa Made Me Want to Change the Food Industry

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  • Food Loss and Waste
Daniel Vennard (left) poses with clippings from the shrub he discovered.
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Sustainable Diets: What You Need to Know in 12 Charts

  • agriculture
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grocery store
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RELEASE: WRI offers new approach to help move billions to more sustainable diets

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  • land use
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • food security
  • GHG emissions
  • natural resources
  • Freshwater
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • land use
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • food security
  • GHG emissions
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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
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  • food security
  • Green Climate Fund
  • renewable energy
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  • 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

WRI Calls SDGs "A Bold New Agenda For International Development"

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
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  • Cities
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
  • Climate
  • Energy
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  • Cities
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
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How Ethiopia Went from Famine Crisis to Green Revolution

  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • restoration
  • agriculture
  • food security
  • poverty
Ethiopia is now greener than it has been in the last 145 years. Photo by Chris Reij/WRI
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  • restoration
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