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    waste Insights
    Business
    Africa
    Insights
    December 2, 2021

    How a Partnership in Kenya Recycled 100,000 Kilograms of Fashion Waste

    • waste
    • circular economy
    Three recycling bins against a wall filled with garments to be recycled.
    • waste
    • circular economy
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America Oceania North America Europe
    Insights
    April 6, 2021

    4 Ways to Reduce Plastic Pollution

    • Business
    • circular economy
    • coronavirus
    • waste
    • Ocean
    • pollution
    • regulation
    Plastic waits for recycling landfill in the Philippines.
    • Business
    • circular economy
    • coronavirus
    • waste
    • Ocean
    • pollution
    • regulation
    Business
    Insights
    August 6, 2020

    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
    Cities
    Insights
    December 18, 2019

    We're Underestimating How Many People Lack Sanitation Services—and Ignoring the Best Solution for Many Cities

    • Towards a More Equal City
    • sanitation
    • waste
    • Cities
    • world resources report
    Polluter waterways carry impacts of poor sanitation citywide. Photo by SusanA Secretariat/Flickr
    • Towards a More Equal City
    • sanitation
    • waste
    • Cities
    • world resources report
    Energy
    Insights
    April 30, 2019

    Kenya’s Farmers Battle Drought through Biodiesel Made from Cotton Waste

    • Humans of Clean Energy
    • waste
    • Energy
    Abel Mutie, a Kenyan farmer
    • Humans of Clean Energy
    • waste
    • Energy
    Asia
    Insights
    March 25, 2019

    Urban Transformations: In Pune, India, Waste Pickers Go from Trash to Treasure

    • Cities
    • Urban Transformations
    • waste
    • human rights
    • poverty
    Members of a waste-pickers cooperative push collection carts along the streets of Pune, India
    • Cities
    • Urban Transformations
    • waste
    • human rights
    • poverty
    Business
    Insights
    May 24, 2018

    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
    • waste
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Asia
    Insights
    March 22, 2017

    From Waste to Watts: How Sewage Could Help Fix India's Water, Energy and Sanitation Woes

    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • waste
    • renewable energy
    • wastewater
    • Water Quality
    • water risk
    Unkal tank
    • Freshwater
    • Aqueduct
    • waste
    • renewable energy
    • wastewater
    • Water Quality
    • water risk
    Finance
    Insights
    October 15, 2015

    Before Paris, Bonn: What Needs to Happen at Prelude to COP21

    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • climate policy
    • NDC
    • international climate policy
    • Paris Agreement
    • UNFCCC
    • COP21
    Photo by Matthias Zepper/Flickr.
    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • climate policy
    • NDC
    • international climate policy
    • Paris Agreement
    • UNFCCC
    • COP21
    Finance
    Insights
    September 4, 2015

    Bonn Climate Talks Lay Groundwork for Final Push Toward Paris

    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • climate policy
    • climate finance
    • NDC
    • Paris Agreement
    • COP21
    Photo Credit: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/37427697@N03/3581334345/">Vattenfall</a> via <a href="http://compfight.com">Compfight</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">cc</a>
    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • climate policy
    • climate finance
    • NDC
    • Paris Agreement
    • COP21
    Climate
    Latin America
    Insights
    August 26, 2015

    An Opportunity Not to Be Missed

    • Climate
    • climate policy
    • GHG emissions
    • COP21
    Photo by Michael Mazengarb/Flickr
    • Climate
    • climate policy
    • GHG emissions
    • COP21
    Climate
    Latin America
    Insights
    August 26, 2015

    Oportunidade Histórica

    • Climate
    • climate policy
    • GHG emissions
    • COP21
    Para atingir a meta de 2ºC será necessária uma radical e urgente descarbonização da economia mundial. Fonte: Michael Mazengarb/Flickr
    • Climate
    • climate policy
    • GHG emissions
    • COP21
    Climate
    North America
    Insights
    August 6, 2015

    Clean Power Plan Can Help States, Economy and Planet

    • U.S. Climate
    • Energy
    • GHG emissions
    • climate policy
    • Business
    • energy efficiency
    • renewable energy
    • COP21
    NASA image courtesy of the DSCOVR EPIC team
    • U.S. Climate
    • Energy
    • GHG emissions
    • climate policy
    • Business
    • energy efficiency
    • renewable energy
    • COP21
    Climate
    Insights
    June 7, 2015

    Looking for a Faster Pace at Bonn Climate Talks

    • International Climate Action
    • Finance
    • climate policy
    • climate finance
    • climate change
    • Paris Agreement
    • UNFCCC
    • COP21
    UNFCCC Bonn Climate Change Conference, photo by UNFCCC, June 4, 2015
    • International Climate Action
    • Finance
    • climate policy
    • climate finance
    • climate change
    • Paris Agreement
    • UNFCCC
    • COP21
    Climate
    Insights
    May 19, 2015

    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
    Asia
    Insights
    August 7, 2013

    In China, Waste No Time in Stopping Waste

    • Energy
    • waste
    • climate change
    • pollution
    • low carbon development
    • Energy
    • waste
    • climate change
    • pollution
    • low carbon development

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