WRI provides independent, nonpartisan expertise and guidance to policymakers on climate change technology, business engagement, policy design, and international issues. Their corporate partnership programs include the Green Power Market Development Group and the Northeast Climate Action Partnership.

Environmental Defense works directly with businesses, government, and communities in a nonpartisan manner, developing constructive alternatives that make environmental and economic sense. Environmental Defense partners with individual companies, such as FedEx and McDonald's, to help these companies reduce their environmental impact.

BSR provides socially responsible business solutions to many of the world's leading corporations. Headquartered in San Francisco and with offices in Europe and China, BSR is a nonprofit business association that serves its 250 member companies and other Global 1000 enterprises.

GRI created and maintains the Sustainable Reporting Framework and Sustainable Reporting Guidelines which help companies accurately and comprehensively measure and report sustainable business metrics.

Innovest Strategic Value Advisors is an investment research and advisory firm specializing in analyzing companies' performance on environmental, social, and strategic governance issues, with a particular focus on their impact on competitiveness, profitability, and share price performance.

BluSkye is a for-profit sustainability consulting company that partners with leading companies in specific industries to provide customized solutions in the areas of strategy creation, stakeholder engagement, supply chain optimization, and emerging issues identification.

SustainAbility is a leading for-profit sustainability consulting company that advises clients on the risks and opportunities associated with corporate responsibility and sustainable development. The company works with individual companies to create customized solutions for companies’ social and environmental challenges.

Blog, speaking and consulting services provided by Andrew Winston, co-author of the book Green to Gold.

This Harvard Business Review article discusses how companies should align sustainable business practices with their business strategy and core competencies. It’s a great piece to read if you need to familiarize yourself with sustainability.

This Harvard Business Review article discusses how companies should align sustainable business practices with their business strategy and core competencies. It’s a great piece to read if you need to familiarize yourself with sustainability.

This document summarizes the thoughts of 54 companies on the interrelationship of sustainable business and strategy. Turns out that the majority of your peers believe that sustainable business strategies will become more integral to business strategy in the future and will increasingly contribute to business success.

This article, written by Andrew Winston and Daniel Esty, authors of Green to Gold, is a quick summary of the business opportunities of embracing a sustainability strategy.

This research uses data from the Business in the Community’s Environment Index as well as case studies from leading companies to demonstrate the business benefits of improved environmental management and performance.

Ever heard of the idea of the Bottom of the Pyramid? It’s the concept that a large market exists to meet the needs of the world’s poorest citizens. This is THE report to read on the topic; in addition to a great overview, it will also describe industry opportunities specifically.

This report is a practical manual for companies looking to create and structure partnerships with non profit organizations on the topic of sustainability.

This report, written by GreenBiz.com, details top stories and green business trends of the past year. The report includes a GreenBiz index to measure companies' green progress. The last three pages of the report have links to tools and research from the past year.

This report summarizes the commitments made at the lastest World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland

This report highlights examples of green business from leading Fortune 500 companies.

Find out the Business Environmental Self-Assessment Tool.

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The Greenhouse Gas Protocol is a comprehensive set of guidelines for companies looking to track greenhouse gas emissions from their operations.

The Climate Leaders program helps companies develop a greenhouse gas–emissions reduction plan.

The Carbon Disclosure Project is the largest repository of corporate greenhouse gas emissions data in the world. It seeks information on the business risks and opportunities presented by climate change and greenhouse gas emissions data from the world's largest companies: 3,000 in 2008. It is an expert in carbon disclosure methodology.

An overview of Citigroup's efforts to lower the costs and consumption of copy paper in the company's offices.

An overview of Starbucks' efforts to change customers' paper cup use practices.

An overview of the launch and impact of FedEx's hybrid trucking fleet.

An overview of PHH Arval's success lowering greenhouse gas emissions through optimal fleet management.

This tool, developed by the World Resources Institute, allows project managers to factor in the price of carbon when evaluating greenhouse gas reduction projects.

This tool, developed by Environmental Defense, calculates the financial and environmental impact of switching paper grade for a company's operations.

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European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) started in January 2005 and is the largest multicountry, multisector Greenhouse Gas emission trading scheme in the world.

The Chicago Climate Exchange is a voluntary carbon trading market.

USCAP is an expanding alliance of major businesses and leading climate and environmental groups that come together to lobby for federal legislation requiring significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is a cooperative effort by nine northeast and mid-Atlantic states to discuss the design of a regional cap-and-trade program initially covering carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in the region.

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This resource presents a comprehensive overview of water management strategies such as lifecycle analysis, risk and opportunity assessment, and strategy development.

This document presents a clear and concise business case for improved water management strategies.

This tool helps companies calculate water consumption and efficiency, as well as water risks, and creates risk and performance metrics.

The Alliance for Great Lakes, in partnership with the Sustainability Forum, developed this calculator to estimate personal water consumption.

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This report provides data on the current energy inefficiencies of the IT department and offers case studies of companies who have creatively reduced energy consumption of IT equipment.

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