Stories: Markets & Enterprise

If you are a regular reader of news related to water risk, you may have seen data and observations from Aqueduct in several venues during the month of January.

Opportunities in China for impact investing are growing, where investors look to create positive social and environmental benefits alongside returns.

What are the top environmental and development issues that will shape 2012?

Snaking across multiple international boundaries and supporting everything from villages and farms to industry and cities, the Orange-Senqu River is one of the most important natural resources in s

The World Resources Institute and the Coca-Cola Company recently announced a

This piece, co-authored by WRI’s Kirsty Jenkinson and Coca-Cola’s Joe Rozza, originally appeared on

RELEASE: Leaders Announce Global Effort to Restore 150 Million Hectares of Deforested Land

New Global Restoration Council to be led by former Swedish Prime Minister Persson

A global effort to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested lands by 2020 is being launched in Bonn, Germany.

New Ventures India, part of WRI’s center for environmental entrepreneurship, and CDF-IFMR convened a workshop i

Initiative to provide unprecedented level of water risk information for business and government

This piece originally appeared on the New Ventures website. It was written with New Ventures intern Kevin Short.

The 2011 New Ventures China Investor Forum showcased the potential of environmental entrepreneurship on a larger scale than any previous forum in the program’s eight years of operations in China.