Topic: climate change

As climate negotiations wrapped up in Bonn, Germany, following is a statement from Jennifer Morgan, Director, Climate and Energy, the World Resources Institute:

Update [10/17/2011]: WRI has released the latest edition of Climate Science.

Adapting for a Green Economy: Companies, Communities and Climate Change

This report makes the business case for private sector adaptation to climate change in ways that build the resilience of vulnerable communities in developing countries.

Leaders exchange ideas on clean energy innovation, business models, policy and investment at ACEF2011

MEDIA ADVISORY: Adapting for a Green Economy Report Launch

How Will Companies Adapt to a Changing Climate?

Ensuring that the opportunities of clean energy are available to the nations that need them most by guiding effective international collaboration on low-carbon technology.

WRI works with businesses, governments, and researchers of all kinds to ensure that technologies to provide low-carbon energy effectively, efficiently, and inexpensively are available and deployed around the world.

Building the capacity of developing countries to track progress towards meeting domestic climate, energy, and development goals.

Working with nations to achieve the twin goals of robust economic growth and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

Working with EPA and other federal agencies to help design, inform and clarify U.S. government activities to reduce greenhouse gases.

WRI works to inform Congress about the opportunities and impacts of legislative proposals that affect U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and to help shape federal policies that will lead the U.S. on a path of low-carbon growth.

Despite their benefits to national economies, reefs around the world are at risk, including in the United States.

Offers six principles of smart energy policy for developing countries

Today, the government of the United Kingdom took a significant step to shift to a low-carbon economy, providing clear signals to investors that the UK wants to host large-scale clean energy projects moving forward.

In its final report on America’s Climate Choices, the National Research Council asserts that there is a “pressing need for substantial action” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change.