WRI Annual Report 2003

The global issues that the World Resources Institute worked to put on the international agenda 20 years ago have emerged as major challenges of the Twenty-First Century:

• climate change,
• the loss of biodiversity,
• desertification,
• forest and reef destruction, and
• growing stress on freshwater resources.

This drives our work at WRI and produced some remarkable results in 2003. Some of these results are highlighted in this report.