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How to Build a Circular Economy

  • Cities & Transport
  • business
  • emissions
  • food waste
  • green economy
  • greenhouse gasses (GHG)
  • natural resources
  • sustainability initiative
  • sustainable business
A circular economy can help mitigate the climate crisis, and makes social and financial sense. Photo by Aaron Minnick | WRI.
  • Cities & Transport
  • business
  • emissions
  • food waste
  • green economy
  • greenhouse gasses (GHG)
  • natural resources
  • sustainability initiative
  • sustainable business
The impact of COVID-19 greatly affects food and nutrition security. As we build back better, we must also “grow back better” to improve food and land use systems. Photo credit to Masahiro Ihara/Flickr
  • food
  • food loss
Get creative with fruits and vegetables that are past their prime. Photo by Max Delsid/Unsplash
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WRI Indonesia’s team in a tree planting offset project in West Java, March 2019. Photo credit: WRI Indonesia
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Flight Decisions Matter for Climate Change

  • Cities & Transport
  • sustainability initiative
For years, airlines have experimented with biofuels, aiming to reduce both carbon emissions and their reliance on fossil fuels. It’s been a turbulent journey buffeted by inconsistent investment and the periodic lure of cheap oil. (Bloomberg/The Jakarta Post/File)
  • Cities & Transport
  • sustainability initiative

Too Many Cities Are Growing Out Rather than Up. 3 Reasons That’s a Problem

  • cities
  • governance
  • poverty
  • urban development
Informal settlements at the edge of Mumbai, India. Photo by Johnny Miller/Unequal Scenes
  • cities
  • governance
  • poverty
  • urban development
Data

Share of Total Food Available that is Lost or Wasted

  • creating a sustainable food future
  • food loss
  • food waste
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3 Charts Explain One of the Most Overlooked Opportunities to Address Climate Change and Poverty

  • air quality
  • climate change
  • pollution
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
Air conditioning units in Hong Kong. Flickr/Niall Kennedy
  • air quality
  • climate change
  • pollution
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals

We’ve Woken Up to Plastic Waste. Is Food Waste Next?

  • creating a sustainable food future
  • food
  • food loss
  • food security
  • food waste
Rotten fruits.
  • creating a sustainable food future
  • food
  • food loss
  • food security
  • food waste

For Indigenous Peoples, Losing Land Can Mean Losing Lives

  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • poverty
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • poverty

Choose or Lose: Why Gisele and I Are Shifting to a Sustainable Diet

  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • food
  • food loss
  • food security
  • agriculture
  • climate change
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  • food security

Rethinking the Buffet: 3 Things Hotels Can Do Now to Reduce Food Waste

  • food
  • food loss
  • food security
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Food buffet.
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  • food security
  • food waste

We Have a Collective Responsibility to Halve Food Loss and Waste

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  • food waste
  • food
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  • food waste

3 Steps for Tackling Food Loss and Waste

  • Climate
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • economics
  • food loss
  • food security
  • food waste
  • hunger
Rotten fruits.
  • Climate
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • economics
  • food loss
  • food security
  • food waste
  • hunger

Forest Watcher Brings Data Straight to Environmental Defenders

  • Access Initiative
  • access to information
  • akses terhadap informasi
  • deforestasi
  • deforestation
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Access Initiative
  • access to information
  • akses terhadap informasi
  • deforestasi
  • deforestation
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)

Bigger Isn’t Always Better: Narrow Traffic Lanes Make Cities Safer

  • cities
  • health and road safety
  • road safety
  • traffic
  • transport
  • transportation
  • cities
  • health and road safety
  • road safety
  • traffic
  • transport
  • transportation

Cities neglect traffic safety

  • cities
  • sustainable cities
  • traffic
  • cities
  • sustainable cities
  • traffic