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MEDIA ADVISORY: Lunch Panel to Discuss Climate and Trade Links

May 19, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

WHAT: The World Resources Institute and the Peterson Institute for International Economics will hold a briefing to release Leveling the Carbon Playing Field, a timely book on the linkages between climate change and trade policy.

Coastal Populations Losing Livelihoods to Polluted Waters

April 2, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Coastal communities worldwide are witnessing their livelihoods choked by agricultural and industrial pollution, according to findings released today by the World Resources Institute.

Coastal Eutrophic and Hypoxic Areas of Europe

March 27, 2008

This map identifies 168 eutrophic and hypoxic coastal areas in Europe. Fifty-nine of these are documented hypoxic areas, 106 are areas of concern, and 3 are improved systems that are in recovery.

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

Proposed Fuel Efficiency Standards a Small but Welcome Step, Says New WRI Report

December 12, 2007
Location: BALI, INDONESIA

Proposed fuel efficiency standards in both the U.S. and EU will not reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks over the long term, according to a report released today by the World Resources Institute.

Green Power Market Development Group: Europe (GPMDG-EU)

NOTE: This project is no longer active.

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. The Group advanced a clean energy future by developing 1,000 megawatts of cost-competitive green power from 2000-2010.

The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid

March, 2007

Discussions of base of the economic pyramid (BOP) markets have, until now, relied principally on business case studies and rough estimates of market size. The Next 4 Billion uses previously unreleased data to measure market opportunity at the BOP.

Transparency Issues with ACEA Agreement: Are investors driving blindly?

Fred Wellington, Amanda Sauer, Philipp Mettler, Gabriela Grab Hartmann

March, 2005

The ACEA Agreement target in 2008 will entail costs for the industry that are likely to to distributed differently between the member companies. Yet these costs, along with their competitive implicatications, remain hidden from the public.

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