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Emerging sustainability frameworks: China Development Bank and China Export-Import Bank

Report series (2 of 3) which looks at how new development banks in China and Brazil are redefining the landscape of international development and sustainable finance.
Getting Climate Finance Right

Successful Examples for the Green Climate Fund from around the World
The Role and Characteristics of Chinese State-Owned and Private Enterprises in Overseas Investments

This paper looks at China’s state-owned enterprise (SOE) reforms and the rise of the private sector, and considers how approaches to overseas investment are evolving.
#GreenTheGreens: Students for Safe and Healthy Campus Grounds

A campaign to inspire students, groundskeepers, landscapers and servicers to transition to chemical, toxic and pesticide-free lawn and garden management on college campuses.
Growing Bee-Friendly Garden Plants: Profiles in Innovation

This report provides examples of wholesale nurseries, retailers and institutions that are responding to consumer demand to protect bees.
Exploitation and Empty Promises: Wilmar’s Nigerian Land Grab

Nigeria is a key frontier country for palm oil expansion. Since 2010, Wilmar International has acquired thirty-thousand of hectares of land for palm oil plantations in southeastern Nigeria, and the co…
Spinning Food

The industrial food and agricultural sector spent hundreds of millions of dollars from 2009 to 2013 on communications efforts to spin the media, drive consumer behavior and advance its policy agenda.
The Potential Greenhouse Gas Emissions of U.S. Federal Fossil Fuels

This report was undertaken to facilitate a better understanding of the consequences of future federal fossil fuel leasing and extraction in the context of domestic and global efforts to avoid dangerou…
Chain Reaction: How Top Restaurants Rate on Reducing Use of Antibiotics in Their Meat Supply

A report by Friends of the Earth and other public interest groups shows that America’s top chain restaurants that serve up a huge portion of the nation’s meat are doing little to help fix the grow…
Extreme Genetic Engineering and the Human Future

Recent research in genetic engineering and “synthetic biology” and how has enabled scientists to artificially redesign life — everything from microbes to people.