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Brazil: Total BOP ICT Spending by Income Segment

October 14, 2008

In Brazil, the BOP market for ICT is 97 percent urban, and average annual spending by urban BOP households ($203) is seven times that spent by rural BOP households.

Electricity Goverance Initiative Launched in Brazil

By Davida Wood on June 23, 2008
Location: Brazil

EGI offers a new hope for electricity in Brazil.

Brazilian Companies Announce Global Warming Game Plan

May 12, 2008
Location: BRASILIA, BRAZIL

The Brazil Greenhouse Gas Protocol Program was launched today and its 12 founding corporate members have voluntarily agreed to report their global-warming emissions.

Brazil Launches Its GHG Protocol Program

By Taryn Fransen on May 12, 2008
Location: Brasilia, Brazil

In the latest sign of progress on addressing greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries, 16 major Brazilian corporations will be implementing voluntary national program to measure and report emissions.

The 10 Big Questions For Corporate Forest Product Purchasing

By Ruth Nogueron on April 3, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Corporate procurement managers are increasingly looking for ways to ensure that wood and paper-based products are environmentally and socially sound. The WRI/WBCSD procurement guide being released today is a toolbox to help them.

New Toolbox Demystifies Green Forest Product Purchasing

April 3, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Corporate managers will now get powerful help with today’s release of a “Guide to the Guides” - a toolbox that helps them understand and find the best advice on how to purchase products originating from the world’s forests.

Wood and Paper-Based Product Procurement: 10 Things You Should Know

April 1, 2008

Poor in Senegal Denied Benefits of Forest Resources

By Jesse Ribot on March 17, 2008

In many developing countries, forestry policies systematically exclude the poor from the wealth of the forests around them. Senegal provides an interesting example of how even good policies can fail to deliver the benefits they are intended to provide.

Unfair Forestry Policies Abet Poverty, Finds New Study

March 13, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Unfair government policies fail to benefit poor people who live in the forests of many developing countries. Those same policies fail even to protect forests, according to a new study.

Leading Companies Responding to Ecosystem Degradation

March 10, 2008
Location: Montreux, Switzerland

Corporate Ecosystem Services Review road-tested by Akzo Nobel,

BC Hydro, Mondi, Rio Tinto, and Syngenta

Measuring The Invisible: Quantifying Emissions Reductions From Transport Solutions - Porto Alegre Case Study

Maria Cordeiro, Bianca Focante (CTS-Brasil)

March, 2008

EMBARQ’s Lee Schipper Appointed to Editorial Board of Transport Policy

February 21, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Dr. Lee Schipper, EMBARQ fellow at EMBARQ - The World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Transport, has been appointed as an editorial board member of the prestigious Transport Policy journal, the official journal of the World Conference on Transport Research Society.

The Governance of Forests Initiative

The Governance of Forests Initiative is a global network that promotes transparent, participatory, accountable, and coordinated governance of forest lands and resources.

Forest Landscapes Initiative

WRI seeks to increase the ability of governments, businesses, and civil society to protect intact forest landscapes, manage working forests more effectively, and restore deforested lands.

New Ventures

New Ventures supports business solutions to the challenges of sustainable development by accelerating the growth of environmental enterprise in emerging markets.

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