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This abstract describes a case study regarding Esprit International's 'Ecollection', an environmentally sensitive women's clothing line. The narrative focuses on the tension between the company's values of social responsibility and the commercial pressures of a competitive fashion industry, as the Ecollection team prepares to present first-season performance results to skeptical Division Heads.

The document is a case study of the Wisconsin Electric Power Company (WEPCO) in the early 1990s, detailing its efforts to integrate environmental stewardship into its corporate strategy. WEPCO implemented successful demand-side management and appliance recycling programs to reduce energy consumption and hazardous waste. However, a 1991 benchmarking study by A.T. Kearney revealed a gap between the company's public environmental commitments and its internal implementation, specifically citing a lack of comprehensive risk assessment and a leadership void below the executive level.

This case study describes Specialty Glass, Inc., a privately owned manufacturer in the Pacific Northwest of the United States that produced approximately 30 percent of the global supply of colored sheet glass for lamps and stained-glass windows. The company faced significant environmental and regulatory challenges due to the use of toxic pigments, specifically cadmium oxide used for ruby-red glass, which resulted in hazardous waste and air emission concerns.

This case study examines the adoption of environmental management practices by Epson (China) Co., Ltd., the China headquarters of Seiko Epson Corporation. It details the company's efforts to implement ISO 14001 certification, reduce office resource consumption, and establish a printer cartridge take-back system modeled after the parent company's Japanese operations.

This fact sheet describes the China Energy Efficiency Financing project by the World Resources Institute (WRI), which aims to overcome financing barriers for energy efficiency (EE) projects in China's industrial sector. The project focuses on building industrial capacity to identify financeable projects and implementing a portfolio-based financing model, starting in Shanghai, to help the country meet its carbon and energy intensity reduction goals.

This briefing by the World Resources Institute outlines the principles of climate justice, emphasizing the disproportionate impact of climate change on poor populations and the necessity of limiting global emissions to avoid catastrophic warming. It discusses the economic opportunities of a low-carbon transition, specifically in job creation and the role of policy certainty in driving investment.

This executive summary by the World Resources Institute (WRI) quantifies the economic value of coral reefs in Jamaica, focusing on their role in supporting tourism, fisheries, and shoreline protection. The document warns that reef degradation due to local pressures and climate change threatens significant economic losses, particularly through increased beach erosion and reduced fish stocks, and advocates for improved coastal and fisheries management.

A World Resources Institute fact sheet presenting a map of historic carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion between 1900 and 1999, categorized by industrialized and developing regions.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) provides supplier-specific as-delivered CO2 emission rates to large customers based on hourly consumption profiles. To support these customers in meeting sustainability goals, TVA developed a spreadsheet tool that compares the costs and REC consumption of renewable versus clean energy goals and allows for predictive modeling of CO2 reduction targets through 2030.

This World Resources Institute guide provides a framework for evaluating Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) for the 2015 Paris climate agreement. It outlines criteria for 'strong' INDCs, emphasizing the need for quantified results, scientific alignment (peaking emissions by 2020), transparency in methodology, and integration with national political processes to ensure feasibility.

This World Resources Institute fact sheet describes the impact of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA) 'direct pay' (elective pay) provision, which allows tax-exempt entities to receive clean energy tax credits as cash payments. It highlights how local governments, nonprofits, and tribal nations use these funds to finance electric vehicles, solar arrays, and infrastructure, providing examples from cities such as Philadelphia, Chattanooga, and Pateros.

This research paper by James Manor, presented at a World Resources Institute conference in 2002, examines the relationship between democratic decentralization and social equity. The author analyzes whether shifting power to local levels reduces poverty and identifies specific political and social conditions under which marginalized groups are most likely to benefit from such systems.

This research paper by Nancy Peluso explores the complex relationship between the decentralization of resource management and violence in Indonesia. Using the forest and land sectors as primary examples, Peluso argues that decentralization often shifts the locus of power to local elites who may use violence to secure resource control, while the legacy of the repressive Suharto regime has normalized violent conflict and weakened the state's capacity to enforce law and order.

This fact sheet describes the World Resources Institute's (WRI) approach to decarbonizing the transport sector through an equitable and sustainable transition to electric mobility (e-mobility). It outlines the global climate necessity for zero-emission vehicles, WRI's multidisciplinary strategy to support this transition, and the eight specific focus areas the organization targets to achieve a zero-emission transport sector by 2050.

The EV Grid Simulator is an energy modeling tool developed by the World Resources Institute and the UPS Foundation to quantify the impact of electric vehicle (EV) charging on local low-voltage distribution grid infrastructure, such as transformers and substations.

This fact sheet describes the Solidarity for Environmental Defenders (STAND) initiative, a collaboration between the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Alliance for Land, Indigenous, and Environmental Defenders (ALLIED). The initiative aims to support Local Environmental Defenders (LEDs) who face security risks, criminalization, and violence, particularly in countries dependent on extractive industries or large-scale infrastructure.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) provides a technical assistance menu for school districts to accelerate the electrification of school bus fleets. The initiative offers free support across five stages: foundation setting, planning and procurement, charging infrastructure, testing and training, and deployment and scaling. WRI prioritizes districts in underserved communities and aims to support an equitable transition of the U.S. school bus fleet to electric by 2030.

This case study describes how the French cosmetics company Yves Rocher used the Corporate Ecosystem Services Review (ESR) framework in 2009 to develop a corporate-wide biodiversity strategy. The process led to the creation of an action plan focused on supply chain resilience, facility management, and customer communication to secure raw material inputs and enhance brand value.

This expert perspective by Tony Maher of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) discusses Australia's challenges in managing the transition from coal-fired power to low-carbon energy. It highlights the socio-economic risks to regional communities and describes a novel collaborative approach used during the closure of the Hazelwood power station to manage redundancies and redeployment across multiple private companies.

This briefing by the World Resources Institute explains the purpose and function of the Paris Rulebook, which consists of implementation guidelines designed to operationalize the Paris Agreement. It details how the Rulebook establishes a cycle of planning, implementing, and reviewing national climate actions to achieve global temperature and resilience goals.