Hot Climate, Cool Commerce

A guide by the World Resources Institute designed to help service-sector companies manage, track, and reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to mitigate climate change.

• While climate change mitigation often focuses on heavy industry, manufacturers, and utilities as primary emitters, long-term solutions require emission reduction efforts across the entire economy, including service-sector entities like banks, law firms, retailers, and real estate managers.
• Service-sector companies contribute to greenhouse gas emissions primarily through their travel, cooling, heating, and electricity use. These companies can mitigate climate change by altering their energy consumption and the services and products they provide, while influencing stakeholders, employees, customers, and supply chains.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Hot Climate, Cool Commerce. https://www.wri.org/research/hot-climate-cool-commerce

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Hot Climate, Cool Commerce. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/hot-climate-cool-commerce.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendhot, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Hot Climate, Cool Commerce}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/hot-climate-cool-commerce}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }