Topic: climate change

MEDIA ADVISORY: WRI to Brief Journalists on Risks to Southern Forests

WHAT: The World Resources Institute (WRI) will brief journalists on critical changes happening to forests in Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.

Federal legislators should look to the states for some key lessons on cap-and-trade.

WRI’s Jennifer Morgan Reacts to Copenhagen Accord Filing Deadline

Yesterday was the deadline set in the Copenhagen Accord for countries to submit their greenhouse gas emission reduction targets to the UNFCCC Secretariat.

**[Jennifer Morgan](http://www.wri.org

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Please join the World Resources Institute (WRI) for a discussion and presentation by Mohamed El-Ashry, a board member of the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED), on the Arab Forum’s recently released report on how climate change is affecting the Middle East.

Sixty corporations today begin measuring the greenhouse gas emissions of their products and supply chains by road testing a new global framework that is part of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative.

Jonathan Lash, president of the World Resources Institute (WRI), will brief journalists on January 7 at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on upcoming environmental issues in 2010, including climate, business action, water, forests and more.

Global Climate Pact Reached After Marathon Talks End in Copenhagen

Tough negotiations have finally yielded an important climate agreement today at the UN climate conference.

WRI Statement on U.S. Financial Commitment at Climate Conference

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced today that, if agreement is reached here this week, the United States will participate in a $100 billion fund to help developing countries most affected by climate change.

How industry has learned to live with (and perhaps even love) cap-and-trade in Europe.

Even the best possible Copenhagen outcome will be a waypoint, not an endpoint.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

WHAT: Please join the World Resources Institute (WRI) for a policy briefing for journalists on Wednesday that will summarize progress

This working paper examines efforts made by China—the world’s largest gross emitter of greenhouse gases—to create an enabling environment for R&D and innovation in the field of clean technology.

This paper analyzes relevant measures in emerging U.S. domestic climate policies, describes the objectives of these measures, assesses how they might be imposed, and discusses their implications for both a future climate agreement and the international trading system.

WHAT: Please join the World Resources Institute (WRI) for a journalist-only policy briefing Tuesday that will preview the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15).