Submitted on March 21, 2013
Now is a critically important time for the world to focus on climate finance. Developing nations—those least responsible for causing global warming but most vulnerable to its impacts—need funding to...
Submitted on January 18, 2013
Two leaders on urban development recently came together on the same stage: Dr. Jim Yong Kim and Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Kim, president of the World Bank, and Bloomberg, mayor of New York City,...
Submitted on January 9, 2013
This blog post was co-written with Forbes Tompkins, an intern with WRI’s Climate and Energy Program.
According to new data, 2012 was a chart-topping year for the United States – but not in a...
Submitted on November 14, 2012
“Two years ago at the UNFCCC conference in Cancun, negotiators agreed that the world would seek to limit global average temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius,” Andrew Steer, WRI’s president, said...
Submitted on October 23, 2012
A version of this post originally appeared on The Access Initiative’s blog.
The World Resources Institute, The Access Initiative, Indonesian Center for Environmental Law, and Thailand...
Submitted on October 17, 2012
WRI’s The Access Initiative created its “Sunita” video to bring attention to the environmental injustices that countless impoverished communities face. But recently, it’s the video itself that’s...
Submitted on October 3, 2012
“To tell the story of the corporation is to tell the story of a grand bargain gone awry,” says Pavan Sukhdev in his new book, Corporation 2020: Transforming Business for Tomorrow’s World. It’s a bold...
Submitted on September 12, 2012
China and the United States have a lot in common. China’s rapid economic development and America’s industry have turned the two nations into world’s largest energy users, as well as the biggest...
Submitted on July 25, 2012
Ever wonder how coral reefs contribute to the economy and human health? Or how 60 percent of these “rainforests of the sea” came to be so threatened by local activities? Or what, exactly...
Submitted on July 12, 2012
African farmers currently face a crisis. Droughts and unpredictable weather, in combination with decreasing soil fertility and pests, have caused crop failure on many of the continent’s drylands....
Submitted on June 19, 2012
More than 50,000 international experts and leaders from government, NGOs, business, and other sectors are flocking to the United Nations’ Rio+20 Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Taking...
