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RELEASE: WRI Announces Three New Board Members Representing Business, Academia, and Government

September 12, 2011
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

WRI elects Daniel Cruise, Jonathan Lash and Dr. Jaime Lerner

RELEASE: Leaders Announce Global Effort to Restore 150 Million Hectares of Deforested Land

September 1, 2011
Location: BONN, GERMANY & WASHINGTON, D.C.

New Global Restoration Council to be led by former Swedish Prime Minister Persson

A global effort to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested lands by 2020 is being launched in Bonn, Germany.

Forests for Carbon: Exploring Forest Carbon Offsets in the U.S. South

Logan Yonavjak, Paula Swedeen (Pacific Forest Trust), and John Talberth

September, 2011

This issue brief explores forest carbon offsets in the context of the southern United States. It is intended as an introductory resource for southern woodland owners, nongovernmental organizations active in the region, offset project developers, and other forest carbon offset market stakeholders.

STATEMENT: WRI Mourns the Loss of Lee Schipper, Co-founder of EMBARQ

August 17, 2011
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

The World Resources Institute mourns the loss of Leon “Lee” Schipper, who passed away on August 16 following a battle with cancer.

RELEASE: WRI and Partners Launch Aqueduct Alliance to Measure, Map, and Report on Global Water Risk

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

Initiative to provide unprecedented level of water risk information for business and government

Is the Fit Right? Considering Technological Maturity in Designing Renewable Energy Policy

Jenna Goodward, Alex Perera, Nicholas Bianco, Christina Heshmatpour

August, 2011

This brief describes a number of policy tools that can be employed to drive investment in renewable energy technologies and discusses which policy options may be the best fit based on the commercial maturity of a targeted technology.

RELEASE: WRI and Fortune 500 Companies Launch Next Practice Collaborative

July 28, 2011
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Partnership Aims to Develop Innovative Solutions for Sustainable, Low-Carbon Business

RELEASE: Holger Dalkmann Takes the Wheel of WRI’s Sustainable Transport Program

July 18, 2011
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Dalkmann will oversee the EMBARQ program’s global network of offices in five countries.

PRESS RELEASE: New Report Highlights Weaknesses in Government’s Cost-Benefit Analysis of Climate Change

July 13, 2011
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

“Social Cost of Carbon” report shows how current models do not accurately measure real harm from climate change

More than Meets the Eye: The Social Cost of Carbon in U.S. Climate Policy, in Plain English

Ruth Greenspan Bell and Dianne Callan (Environmental Law Institute)

July, 2011

This policy brief explains the various steps in calculating the social cost of carbon, the weaknesses and strengths of those calculations, and how they are used to inform climate policy. The aim is to help policymakers, regulators, civil society, and others judge for themselves the reliability of using the resulting numbers in making policy decisions.

PRESS RELEASE: New Report Presents Transportation Strategies to Reduce U.S. Oil Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

July 5, 2011
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

A new report, “[The Role of Driving in Reducing GHG Emissions and Oil Consumption: Recommendations for Federal Transportation Policy](http://www.wri.org/publication/role-of-driving-in-reducing-g...

PRESS RELEASE: 6th Asia Clean Energy Forum Opens in Manila, Philippines

June 22, 2011
Location: Manila, Philippines

ADB President Calls for “Radical Steps” on Clean Energy

PRESS STATEMENT: Bonn Climate Talks Wrap Up: More Progress Needed

June 17, 2011
Location: BONN, GERMANY

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

Property Tax Incentives for Forest Conservation in the U.S. South

By John Talberth and Logan Yonavjak on June 15, 2011

Current use valuation programs can encourage landowners to resist development pressures and leave forest as forest.

U.S. Federal Agencies and Climate Change

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

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