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The Corporate GPM Guide 5 defines renewable energy certificates (RECs) as products representing environmental attributes, such as avoided CO2 emissions, which can be purchased independently of retail electricity supply to reduce a company's environmental impact. The document outlines the advantages of RECs over other green power options and provides purchasing strategies and policy recommendations based on the experiences of the Green Power Market Development Group and other corporations.

The document details mechanisms for raising public finance for climate action, focusing on the roles of international funding, debt instruments, and national vehicles. It examines the benefits and challenges of international public finance, the growth of the climate bond market, the utility of debt-for-climate swaps in reducing debt burdens, and the operational structure of national climate funds. The guide provides specific examples of these instruments in practice across various developing and middle-income countries.

The Corporate GPM Guide 4 introduces the Green Power Analysis Tool, detailing its business case, data input processes for green power projects and corporate targets, and its utility in analyzing projects and generating outputs. This guide is part of a broader series by the World Resources Institute aimed at helping corporations evaluate renewable energy opportunities, including technologies like biomass, landfill gas, and wind, as well as procurement strategies and policy obstacles.

The guide outlines five strategies to extend the life of household food supplies: maintaining correct refrigerator and freezer temperatures, distinguishing between 'use by' and 'best before' labels, repurposing aging produce, using ingredient substitutes, and utilizing food scraps for stock or gardening.

The toolkit is designed to empower marginalized communities, particularly in middle- and low-income countries, to fight pollution by leveraging environmental rights. It provides eight modules containing research indicators, worksheets, and templates to help users conduct policy research, collect pollution data, and build advocacy campaigns. Developed through the STRIPE project, the toolkit's methodology is based on five years of experience in Indonesia, Thailand, Mongolia, Jamaica, Morocco, and Tunisia. The document argues that strengthening these rights is essential for pollution accountability and the realization of the right to a healthy environment.

The guide details five financial tools to facilitate energy efficiency: on-bill financing, Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing, Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) models, loan guarantees, and loan loss reserve funds. It highlights how public investment can reduce lender risk to mobilize private capital, providing specific examples from the United States, Canada, and China.

The document outlines a three-phase framework (scoping, analysis, and outreach) for valuing coastal ecosystems in the Caribbean to ensure such studies translate into real-world policy influence. It identifies key enabling conditions for success, such as clear policy questions and strong stakeholder engagement, and addresses gaps in existing valuation tools by providing specific reporting guidelines and best-practice examples for the region.

The guide outlines strategies to minimize household food waste, including maintaining a refrigerator temperature of 4°C or lower and a freezer at -18°C to slow bacterial growth. It distinguishes between the best-before date (Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum), which indicates quality, and the use-by date (Verbrauchsdatum), which is critical for safety in fresh products. Additionally, it suggests creative ways to use overripe produce, substitute ingredients, and repurpose vegetable scraps into stocks or new plants.

The document establishes corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventories as a critical first step for companies to value the climate benefits of green power and manage their energy goals. It examines the business case for these inventories, addresses the question of who should account for emissions reductions, and provides policy recommendations to encourage the corporate use of renewable energy.

The document argues that while heavy industry is a primary source of greenhouse gas emissions, long-term climate solutions require the participation of the entire economy, including the service sector. It identifies that service-sector companies, such as banks and retailers, contribute to climate change through electricity use, heating, cooling, and travel, and offers a step-by-step manual for these businesses to reduce their emissions and influence their supply chains and stakeholders.

The Corporate GPM Guide 2 introduces landfill gas-to-energy (LFGTE) as a financially and environmentally viable alternative to fossil fuels for corporations. Based on the experience of the Green Power Market Development Group, the guide aims to provide corporate energy managers with a basic understanding of the technical and economic issues involved in LFGTE projects and identify policy actions to facilitate their development.

The document serves as an executive guide for companies exploring carbon pricing. It notes a significant increase in corporate adoption, with over 1,000 companies now reporting internal carbon pricing or plans to implement it within two years, compared to 150 in 2014. Additionally, a similar number of companies are advocating for government-led carbon pricing actions.

The guidebook identifies three primary renewable energy procurement options for commercial and industrial customers in Colombia: on-site turnkey purchases, on-site third-party power purchase agreements (PPAs) or leases, and off-site third-party PPAs. It notes that national policies and falling technology costs have created opportunities for corporations to reduce electricity expenses through these investments.

The document outlines how governments monitor climate finance to ensure alignment with climate goals. It highlights that as of 2022, approximately 50 countries—mostly developing nations—have processes to assess climate spending. A key tool discussed is climate budget tagging, used by about 23 countries as of 2023 to identify climate-relevant budget allocations. The guide details specific tagging approaches used in countries like Bangladesh, Cambodia, Colombia, Nepal, Peru, and the Philippines, and defines the essential components of an effective tagging program, including transparent methodology, appropriate tools, institutional commitment, and strategic frameworks.

The document argues that integrating natural infrastructure—such as forests and wetlands—with built infrastructure can reduce water treatment costs and enhance water security. It provides a framework for 'green-gray analysis' to compare these options, discusses the scientific links between forest cover and water quality, and outlines various finance mechanisms and stakeholder engagement strategies to scale these efforts across the U.S.

The document serves as a manual for journalists to avoid common errors when linking specific weather events to climate change. It details the methodology of 'event attribution studies'—which use climate models to compare the current world with a pre-industrial one—and provides specific guidance on reporting heatwaves, floods, tropical cyclones, heavy snowfall, droughts, and wildfires. The guide emphasizes that while climate change increases the probability and intensity of many extremes, it is rarely the sole cause, and local factors like land use and water management often play critical roles in turning a weather event into a disaster.

The document explains the science of extreme event attribution, which calculates how climate change alters the probability and intensity of specific weather events. It provides a detailed breakdown of how climate change influences heatwaves, floods, tropical cyclones, blizzards, droughts, and wildfires, while cautioning journalists against three common errors: ignoring climate change, attributing events without evidence, or treating climate change as the sole cause. It emphasizes that while global trends are clear for some phenomena (like heatwaves), others (like blizzards) remain highly uncertain.

The document explains 'extreme event attribution'—the scientific method used to determine if and how much climate change influenced a specific weather event. It warns journalists against three common mistakes: ignoring climate change, attributing events without evidence, or citing it as the sole cause. The guide provides detailed analysis for heatwaves, floods, tropical cyclones, heavy snow, droughts, and fires, noting that while heatwaves are unilaterally linked to global warming, other events like droughts and snowfall have more complex, region-specific relationships with climate change. It emphasizes that disasters result from both extreme weather and societal vulnerability.

The document serves as a style guide for journalists to avoid common errors when attributing extreme weather to climate change. It explains the methodology of event attribution studies—comparing simulated worlds with and without human influence—and provides specific guidance on reporting heatwaves, floods, tropical cyclones, heavy snowfall, droughts, and wildfires. The guide emphasizes that while climate change increases the probability and intensity of many events, it is rarely the sole cause, and social vulnerability often determines whether a weather event becomes a disaster.

The document explains 'event attribution' science, which quantifies how climate change alters the probability and intensity of specific weather events. It provides a detailed breakdown of how climate change affects heatwaves, floods, tropical cyclones, heavy snowfall, droughts, and wildfires, while cautioning journalists against common errors such as treating climate change as the sole cause of a disaster or ignoring it entirely. It emphasizes that while some trends are globally consistent (e.g., heatwaves), others are regionally variable or complex (e.g., droughts and snowfall).