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MEDIA ADVISORY: WRI’s Jonathan Lash to Gauge Environmental "Stories to Watch" for 2009

December 11, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

WHAT: For the sixth straight year, World Resources Institute President Jonathan Lash will hold a briefing to preview which key environmental issues to watch in the year ahead.

Comments on Asian Development Bank’s Safeguard Policy Statement

By Kirk Herbertson on December 4, 2008

The following comments were submitted to the Asian Development Bank in 2008, regarding its Safeguard Policy Statement.

Unfinished Business on Climate Change Investment Funds

By Athena Ballesteros on October 8, 2008

This week’s first-ever CIF Partnership Forum must ensure that new Clean Technology Funds will help developing countries quickly transition to zero-carbon technologies.

G-8 Endorsement of World Bank Falls Short

By Smita Nakhooda on July 11, 2008
Location: Washington, DC

Much of the response to the G8 summit has focused on how leaders of world’s richest countries “missed an opportunity” to lay out strong long-term commitments and targets on greenhouse gas emissions.

Carbon Value Analysis Tool (CVAT)

June, 2008

This tool allows project managers to factor in the price of carbon when evaluating greenhouse gas reduction projects.

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

Letter to World Bank, Re: Environmental Development Policy Loan to Peru

By Jon Sohn, Sarah Paraghamian, Richard Chase Smith on October 12, 2007

The following letter was sent to the Socially Sustainable Development Unit of the Latin America and the Caribbean Region of the World Bank on October 12th, 2007, regarding the proposed Environmental Development Policy Loan to Peru.

Vulnerability and Adaptation

WRI envisions a world where poor and vulnerable people are more resilient to the serious ecological, economic, and social challenges posed by climate change.

Emissions Markets

This project facilitates the development of globally consistent markets for greenhouse gas emission reductions, which will form a critical component of both U.S. policies and international agreements on climate change.

International Financial Flows and the Environment (IFFE)

The International Financial Flows and Environment Project (IFFE) works to improve the environmental and social decision making and performance of public and private International Financial Institutions (IFIs) by holding them accountable to their investors, to donor countries and to the communities that are impacted by their investments.

ENVEST: Environmental Intelligence for Tomorrow's Markets

Ensures that the financial implications of environmental opportunities and risk are properly understood by financial institutions, investors and issuers and are appropriately reflected in the world’s capital markets.

Letter to Sustainable Development Network, Re: Forest Carbon Partnership Facility

By Manish Bapna on September 20, 2007

The following letter was sent to Kathy Sierra, Vice President of the Sustainable Development Network at the World Bank on September 20th 2007, regarding the launch of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF).

Mainstreaming Climate Change Considerations at the Multilateral Development Banks

Smita Nakhooda, Jon Sohn, Kevin Baumert

July, 2005

Investigates the limited extent to which climate change issues have been included in the World Bank Group’s country assistance strategies, energy-sector loans and project lending and recommends reforms to improve Bank practices.

Energy Security and Climate Change: Investing in the Clean Car Revolution

Merrill Lynch and WRI’s Capital Markets Research Team
June, 2005
Presents framework for understanding the regulatory and market dynamics driving the demand for more fuel efficient and less polluting automobiles, and highlights investment ideas levered to this long-term theme.

Questions and Answers for Investors on Climate Risk

Fred Wellington, Chris Fox (Ceres)

December, 2004

Provides investors worldwide with information to assist them in responding to the financial risks and investment opportunities posed by climate change.

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