Inactive Projects

WRI is pleased to have been an NGO co-sponsor of the 6th Annual Asia Clean Energy Forum from June 20-24, focusing on new business models and policy drivers to build a low-carbon future.

Ensuring tomorrow’s business leaders have the skills to make companies more competitive by viewing social and environmental challenges as unmet market needs that can provide business growth through innovation, entrepreneurship, and organizational change.

Beyond Grey Pinstripes is the recognized leading publication that goes beyond the traditional business school rankings by benchmarking the integration of sustainability into MBA programs.

Biofuels have huge potential for renewable energy development. This project assesses the impact of biofuel production on the environment and agricultural structure, and how policy influences feedstock production, technology change and the environment.

Representatives from around the world are gathering in Durban, South Africa to find common ground in the fight against extreme climate change.

Documenting—in easy-to-understand terms—how global fishing trends are affecting global fish stocks and fishers, and how consumer choices can make a difference.

This project facilitates the development of globally consistent markets for greenhouse gas emission reductions, which will form a critical component of both U.S. policies and international agreements on climate change.

This project investigates ways to address the twin challenges of climate change and energy security within an integrated policy framework, and improve the understanding of these two issues in current legislation.

Ensures that the financial implications of environmental opportunities and risk are properly understood by financial institutions, investors and issuers and are appropriately reflected in the world’s capital markets.

The Green Fees initiative is identifying and analyzing a portfolio of tax reforms that would be both fiscally prudent and environmentally sound. WRI is educating policymakers and opinion leaders in order to build support for these measures.

The Green Power Market Development Group-Europe is a unique corporate renewable energy “buyers group” comprised of leading commercial and industrial energy users dedicated to building corporate demand and markets for renewable energy in Europe.

WRI and its partner environmental NGOs in Russia have begun the development of a methodology to assess the terrestrial footprint of the oil and gas industry on the Russian landscape.

Develop methodologies, data, and indicators to advance the use of physical accounts of material throughput in the U.S. economy as a tool for formulating national environmental policies.

The Partnership for Principle 10 (PP10) is an international forum for governments, civil society organizations, donors, and other stakeholders to enhance public access to information, participation, and justice in national level decision-making.

The Pilot analysis of global ecosystems (PAGE) provides a “big picture” view of ecosystems using indicators and maps at global and continental scales.

The MA was a four-year international effort to assess the conditions and trends of the world’s ecosystems and the links to human well-being. This project will broadly disseminate the MA findings and seek to translate them into action.

WRI’s SDPAMs initiative aims to find ways to help major developing countries find policies and measures that meet their own sustainable development goals more effectively, while creating significant benefits for the global climate.