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PRESS RELEASE: WRI Expands Capacity in International Forest and Ecosystems Work

March 16, 2011
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Two new leaders, Nigel Sizer and Robert Winterbottom, added to roster

New Program Will Help San Francisco Businesses Go Solar

By Jenna Goodward on March 11, 2011

WRI is accepting participants for Solar@Work, a new solar collaborative purchasing program.

PRESS RELEASE: New initiative announced to help ICT industry measure carbon footprint

March 9, 2011
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C. & LONDON

New global guidance will provide common approaches for calculating carbon emissions of ICT products and services

MEDIA ADVISORY: EMBARQ Transport Expert Joins Brookings Panel on Bus Rapid Transit in Latin America

March 7, 2011
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

On Tuesday, March 8, the Latin American Initiative at the Brookings Institution will host a panel discussion on lessons learned from Latin America and the applicability of bus rapid transit (BRT) in the United States.

MEDIA ADVISORY: WRI Announces Companies for Global Investor Forum 2011

March 2, 2011
Location: NEW YORK, N.Y.

Five Innovative, Environmentally-Focused Companies from Emerging Markets to Present at NYU Stern School on April 6, 2011

Protecting Forests to Protect Water in the U.S. South

By Logan Yonavjak and Todd Gartner on February 28, 2011

When it comes to providing clean water, investments in forest conservation can save money.

Forests for Water: Exploring Payments for Watershed Services in the U.S. South

February, 2011

The issue brief provides an overview of how businesses and water utilities in the United States and Latin America are pursuing upstream forest conservation as a cost-effective means of ensuring clean water supplies. It also suggests how many of these approaches could be applicable in the southern United States.

Watersheds of the Southern United States

February 25, 2011

In the Southern United States, the watersheds with the greatest ability to produce clean water and with the most consumers tend to be the forested watersheds of the east (top).

PRESS STATEMENT: WRI Responds to Inspector General's Report on NOAA Scientists

February 24, 2011
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

The Office of Inspector General released a report today clearing scientists at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of wrongdoing with regard to the stolen emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) in November 2009.

PRESS RELEASE: 75% of World’s Coral Reefs Currently Under Threat, New Analysis Finds

February 24, 2011
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C. & LONDON

“Reefs at Risk Revisited” report presents comprehensive analysis of threats to coral reefs

Reefs at Risk in the Atlantic/Caribbean

February 18, 2011

More than 75 percent of the coral reefs in the Atlantic region are at risk from local threats (i.e., coastal development, overfishing/destructive fishing, marine-based pollution, and/or watershed-base

Regional Cap and Trade Programs

February 16, 2011

23 U.S.

PRESS RELEASE: World Resources Institute Names Kevin Kennedy to Lead U.S. Climate Program

February 16, 2011
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) announced today that Dr. Kevin Kennedy will lead its U.S. Climate Initiative, within the Climate and Energy Program, starting in April 2011.

What’s Ahead for Power Plants & Industry? Using the Clean Air Act to Reduce GHGs, Building on Regional Programs

Franz Litz, Nicholas Bianco, Michael B. Gerrard (Center for Climate Change Law at the Columbia University Law School), and Gregory E. Wannier (Center for Climate Change Law at the Columbia University Law School)

Working Paper: February, 2011

This working paper explores how states and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and industrial facilities using the standards of performance under section 111 of the Clean Air Act.

PRESS RELEASE: Study Finds Federal Climate Policy Scenarios Would Have Modest Credit Impacts for Most U.S. Chemicals Subsectors

February 15, 2011
Location: NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.

S&P, WRI Release Report on Climate Policy Scenarios and the US Chemicals Industry

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