Topic: sustainable development

In consultations, a range of countries and interest groups have called for an energy strategy that supports sustainable development.

Bringing clean energy to India’s rural poor consumers creates cascading economic and social benefits, in addition to profits.

This piece originally appeared in The Economic Times (India).

The two defining challenges of this century are climate change and poverty. Our challenge is to find a way to deal with both, at the same time.

This piece originally appeared on the World Resources Report website.

As well as urgently cutting emissions, nations everywhere need to take steps to adapt to a very different world.

The following interview with Craig Hanson and Moray McLeish was conducted and compiled by Jeremy Hance and Rhett A. Butler for mongabay.com and is reposted with permission. Read the entire piece here on the Mongabay website.

This piece originally appeared in Solutions (Volume 1: Issue 6) and is reposted with permission.

Expanding agriculture onto already degraded lands could relieve pressure on the world’s remaining forests.

Enabling tropical countries to boost their economies and feed global populations whi

Kirsty Jenkinson talks about how New Ventures, WRI’s center for environmental entrepreneurship, helps environmentally-focused small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets compete in a global economy.

Nagoya delegates need to plan how the world achieves food security, before ecosystems reach critical tipping points.

Can new SEC disclosure rules help bring transparency to Uganda’s oil sector?

After falling behind other development organizations, the World Bank now has a chance to update its environmental and social safeguard policies.

A new policy to develop oil palm on degraded land could protect Indonesia’s forests. But what does “degraded” really mean?