| Title | Summary |
|---|---|
| Accelerating Clean Energy Markets in India | Accelerating Clean Energy Markets in India builds investment capacity to grow clean energy business. This initiative leverages the power of markets to expand the supply of and demand for clean energy to benefit sustainable development in India. |
| BELL (Business-Environment Learning and Leadership) | Ensuring tomorrow’s business leaders have the skills to make companies more competitive by viewing social and environmental challenges as unmet market needs that can provide business growth through innovation, entrepreneurship, and organizational change. |
| Beyond Grey Pinstripes: Preparing MBAs for Social and Environmental Leadership | Beyond Grey Pinstripes is the recognized leading publication that goes beyond the traditional business school rankings by benchmarking the integration of sustainability into MBA programs. |
| Biofuels Production and Policy: Implications for Climate Change, Water Quality, and Agriculture | Biofuels have huge potential for renewable energy development. This project assesses the impact of biofuel production on the environment and agricultural structure, and how policy influences feedstock production, technology change and the environment. |
| Capital Markets Research | 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. |
| Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) | This project aims to build consensus on guidelines to ensure that CCS projects are done safely and effectively. These guidelines will be vital towards ensuring public acceptance and confidence in CCS technologies and practices, and ensuring that costs are affordable in the long run. |
| Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) | WRI’s CAIT project provides comprehensive and comparable databases of greenhouse gas inventories and other climate-relevant data, analysis tools, and dynamic maps. |
| Coral Reefs | Pioneering efforts to quantify the risks posed to reefs and the value they provide to people and nature. |
| Demystifying Fisheries | Documenting -- in easy-to-understand terms -- how global fishing trends are affecting global fish stocks and fishers, and how consumer choices can make a difference. |
| Deploying Climate-Friendly Technologies: A Wedges Approach to Clean Investment | Addressing climate change means meeting rising energy demand while reducing emissions at an unprecedented scale. Based on the Socolow "wedge" model, this project looks at how policies, investments, international markets, and financial flows can accelerate clean technology deployment. |
| Development Through Enterprise/NextBillion.net | Development Through Enterprise catalyzes sustainable economic growth by identifying market opportunities and business models that meet the needs of underserved communities in emerging economies. |
| EarthTrends: Environmental Information | EarthTrends influences policy and research with a comprehensive on-line collection of data and analysis about the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world. |
| Economic Valuation of Coral Reefs in the Caribbean | Supporting the sustainable management of coral reefs and mangroves by quantifying their economic value. |
| Ecosystem Services Approach for the Public Sector | The goal of this project is to change how decision makers think about ecosystem services: from protecting ecosystems from development to investing in ecosystems for development. |
| Ecosystem Services Review | The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review (ESR) is a structured methodology for corporate managers to proactively develop strategies for managing business risks and opportunities arising from their company’s dependence and impact on ecosystems. |
| Electricity Governance Initiative | The Electricity Governance Initiative works with sector decision-makers and civil society to promote transparency, accountability, and public participation in the electricity sector. |
| EMBARQ: The WRI Center for Sustainable Transport | The EMBARQ global network catalyzes environmentally and financially sustainable transport solutions to improve quality of life in cities. |
| 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. |
| Environmental Accountability in Africa (EAA): Eminent Domain | This WRI initiative examines the law and practice of eminent domain and seeks to identify ways to ensure that this process is democratic. |
| Environmental Accountability in Africa (EAA): Legislative Environmental Representation | This WRI initiative conducts policy research on the incentives and disincentives for legislators to represent the environmental needs and concerns of their constituents and on the obstacles and opportunities for strengthening environmental representation. |
| GHG Protocol Initiative | Hundreds of companies around the world are using GHG Protocol standards and tools to manage their GHG footprint and make a difference for the climate by developing new products, improving energy efficiency, and participating in GHG programs and markets. |
| Global Forest Watch (GFW) | Global Forest Watch seeks to catalyze changes in forest use to meet human needs and better protect forest ecosystems. |
| Global Poverty Map and Databases of Human Wellbeing and Poverty | Engage experts and policymakers in a dialogue on the need for and use of poverty maps, allowing visualization of the incidence and magnitude of poverty across space linking poverty to environmental issues. Increase supply of spatial indicators of poverty. |
| Green Fees | The Green Fees initiative is identifying and analyzing a portfolio of tax reforms that would be both fiscally prudent and environmentally sound. WRI is educating policymakers and opinion leaders in order to build support for these measures. |
| Green Power Market Development Group (GPMDG) | The GPMDG is a unique commercial and industrial partnership dedicated to building corporate markets for green power. The Group is advancing a clean energy future by developing 1,000 megawatts of cost-competitive green power by 2010. |
| Green Power Market Development Group: Europe (GPMDG-EU) | 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. |
| International Financial Flows and the Environment (IFFE) | The International Financial Flows and the Environment (IFFE) project works to align public and private investment with environmentally sustainable development and poverty reduction. |
| Landscape Impact Assessment of Oil and Gas Industry in Russia | WRI and its partner environmental NGOs in Russia have begun the development of a methodology to assess the terrestrial footprint of the oil and gas industry on the Russian landscape. |
| Learning and leading by doing: Expanding the impact of WRI's CO2 Reduction Commitment | Gain practical experience in developing an annual CO2 inventory and implementing steps to reduce emissions. Help service and retail companies understand their role in climate change solutions and develop and implement effective climate change strategies. |
| Learning and leading by doing: WRI's "green" office space | The design is built within a conventional leased office space and within a standard budget, but it makes some intelligent choices that use resources efficiently and deal with waste constructively. |