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A New Tool Can Help Root Out Deforestation from Complex Supply Chains

  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • mapping
Oil palm
  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • mapping
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7 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2019

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • Business
  • biking
  • circular economy
  • stories to watch
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • Health & Road Safety
California wildfire
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • U.S. Climate
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • Business
  • biking
  • circular economy
  • stories to watch
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • Health & Road Safety
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Smallholder Farmers Are Key to Making the Palm Oil Industry Sustainable

  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • commodities
Indonesian palm oil
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • commodities
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As More Companies Go “Deforestation-Free,” What Does It Mean for Heavily Forested Nations?

  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Forests
Oil palm plantation in Gabon
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Forests
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Forests and SDGs: Taking a Second Look

  • Forests
  • sustainable development goals
Wild fruit in Amazonia
  • Forests
  • sustainable development goals
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Growing Trees and Growing Profit: Is Your Business a “Restoration Enterprise?”

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • Forests
Worker in Better Globe Forestry’s tree nursery in Kenya
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • Forests
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For Companies Aiming for Deforestation-Free Supply Chains, 8 Traps to Avoid

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • Forests
oil palm in Sumatra, Indonesia
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • Forests
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Building a Sustainable Guitar: Mahogany

  • building a sustainable guitar
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
A twisting branch of mahogany
  • building a sustainable guitar
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • illegal logging

Building a Sustainable Guitar: Maple

  • building a sustainable guitar
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
Bigleaf maple forest.
  • building a sustainable guitar
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
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At the World Conservation Congress, 3 Growing Signs of Hope for Forests and Wildlife

  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • mapping
  • restoration
  • sustainable development goals
Gardener in Indonesia
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • mapping
  • restoration
  • sustainable development goals

RELEASE: For the First Time, Companies Can Gauge Deforestation Risk by Evaluating Palm Oil Mills

  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • commodities
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • commodities

RELEASE: Cargill, WRI Partner to Monitor and Manage Deforestation and Water Risk Across Supply Chains

  • Freshwater
  • forest monitoring
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • water risk
  • Freshwater
  • forest monitoring
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • water risk
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Linking Products to Places: The Initiatives Working to End Deforestation

  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • mapping
  • commodities
Harvesting logs in Malaysia.
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • mapping
  • commodities

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

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
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Our Fraying Ecosystems

  • restoration
  • agriculture
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
Between 2001 and 2014, the world lost on average 18 million hectares of tree cover per year (an area twice the size of Portugal). Photo by bdodane/Flickr.
  • restoration
  • agriculture
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
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Getting It Right: A New Global Model to Tackle Poverty and Climate Change

  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Finance
  • climate policy
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
  • COP21
Photo Credit: U.S. Mission to the United Nations at Rome
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Finance
  • climate policy
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
  • COP21
Insights

What Does it Really Mean When a Company Commits to “Zero Deforestation”?

  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Forests
Flora and fauna of the Borneo Rainforest. Photo by Bill Barclay, Rainforest Action Network
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • deforestation
  • Forests

6 Stories to Watch in 2015: Global Climate Deal, Sustainable Development Goals, Rising Water Risks and More

  • Finance
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • UNFCCC
  • United Nations
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
  • stories to watch
Andrew Steer presented 2015's Stories to Watch before a packed house at the Press Club in Washington, D.C. Photo by Bill Dugan/WRI
  • Finance
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • climate change
  • international climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • UNFCCC
  • United Nations
  • U.S. policy
  • water risk
  • stories to watch
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset