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What Are Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Corporate Climate Disclosures? 6 Questions, Answered

  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • GHG Protocol
  • greenhouse gas accounting
Workers standing in front of shipping containers.
  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • GHG Protocol
  • greenhouse gas accounting
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Why Investors Bought the First Certified Green Bond to Protect Forests for Drinking Water

  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • adaptation finance
  • green bonds
  • Finance
  • natural infrastructure
  • Water Quality
Lake Maumelle in central Arkansas
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • adaptation finance
  • green bonds
  • Finance
  • natural infrastructure
  • Water Quality
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Will China Finally Block “Clean Coal” from Green Bonds Market?

  • green bonds
  • Finance
  • fossil fuels
The People's Bank of China, a key player in financial guidance and sustainability. Photo by Flickr/bfishadow
  • green bonds
  • Finance
  • fossil fuels
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So Far, Green Bonds Fail to Raise Much Money for Resilience. The Climate Resilience Principles Aim to Change That

  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • green bonds
  • climate finance
  • climate change
Resilience bonds can fund things like climate-smart agriculture.
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  • Climate Resilience
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  • climate finance
  • climate change
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Conservation Finance Takes Off as the Netherlands Issues One of the Largest Green Bonds Ever

  • adaptation finance
  • green bonds
  • Finance
  • Freshwater
A floodplain restored through the Room for the River program. Image: Dutch Embassy
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  • Finance
  • Freshwater
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RELEASE: 45 Cities Pledge to Conserve and Restore Forests, Citing Public Health, Water and Climate Benefits

  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • green bonds
  • Climate
  • natural infrastructure
  • Urban Development
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • green bonds
  • Climate
  • natural infrastructure
  • Urban Development
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Fish market in Mumbai.
  • GHG emissions
  • GHG Protocol
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Forests and Wetlands Are Water Infrastructure. New Green Bond Helps Finance Their Protection

  • Freshwater
  • green bonds
  • infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • natural infrastructure
  • Water Quality
Forest watershed
  • Freshwater
  • green bonds
  • infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • natural infrastructure
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Fossil Fuels – What’s at Risk?

  • fossil fuels
  • GHG Protocol
coal mining site
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  • GHG Protocol
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Science Will Help Push Companies Towards a Low-Carbon Future

  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • U.S. policy
  • GHG Protocol
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • climate science
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With New Guidelines, China’s Green Bond Market Poised to Take Off in the Year of the Monkey

  • green bonds
  • COP21
  • Finance
  • renewable energy
  • low carbon development
Solar cell manufacturing center in Wuxi, China.
  • green bonds
  • COP21
  • Finance
  • renewable energy
  • low carbon development

Como o Brasil pode liderar na questão do clima

  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Economics
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • GHG Protocol
  • NDC
(São Paulo, Brasil) Fonte: Bernardo Barlach/Flickr.
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Economics
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • GHG Protocol
  • NDC

How Brazil Can Emerge as a Climate Leader

  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Economics
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • GHG Protocol
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
Brazil’s energy sector is now a major source of the country’s emissions and continues to become more carbon intensive as a result of greater reliance on fossil fuels. (São Paulo, Brazil) Photo by Bernardo Barlach/Flickr.
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • Economics
  • climate policy
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • GHG Protocol
  • NDC
  • international climate policy
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Simple Math Points to a Decarbonized Economy

  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • GHG emissions
  • GHG Protocol
  • greenhouse gases
G7 2015. Photo by Palazzo Chigi/Flickr.
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • GHG emissions
  • GHG Protocol
  • greenhouse gases
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A Global Look at Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Programs

  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG Protocol
  • greenhouse gases
At least 40 countries—both developed and developing—currently have mandatory emissions reporting programs in place. (Seoul, South Korea) Photo by tetan88/Flickr.
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  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG Protocol
  • greenhouse gases
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Scope 2: Changing the Way Companies Think About Electricity Emissions

  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG Protocol
  • greenhouse gases
Many electricity markets, including those in the United States, European Union, Australia, Japan, India and many Latin American countries, use a variety of so-called contractual instruments traded between electricity generators, utilities and consumers in order to convey emissions information about purchased power. Photo Credit: Shutterstock
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG Protocol
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RELEASE: Companies Can Now Credibly Report Emissions From Low-Carbon Electricity Purchases

  • Business
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG Protocol
  • Business
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  • GHG Protocol
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ADVISORY: Launch of Two New Greenhouse Gas Standards to Boost Transparency and Advance Climate Action

  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG Protocol
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG Protocol
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How to Calculate Policies’ Effects on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • climate policy
  • GHG emissions
  • GHG Protocol
  • renewable energy
Tunisia launched its renewable energy program, PROSOL ELEC, in 2010 to scale up solar photovoltaic systems in buildings throughout the country. Photo by World Bank/FLICKR.
  • International Climate Action
  • Energy
  • climate policy
  • GHG emissions
  • GHG Protocol
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ADVISORY: New Emissions Accounting Tool to be released at SME Summit in Mumbai

  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG Protocol
  • Business
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • GHG Protocol