Our Work

Accelerating Clean Energy Markets in India helps increase the capacity of investors to fund clean energy enterprises.

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.

WRI’s Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project works with policymakers and the private sector to develop solutions to the policy, regulatory, investment, environmental and social challenges associated with CCS demonstration and deployment.

WRI’s CAIT project provides comprehensive and comparable databases of greenhouse gas inventories and other climate-relevant data, analysis tools, and dynamic maps.

Pioneering efforts to quantify the risks posed to reefs and the value they provide to people and nature.

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.

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 catalyzes sustainable economic growth by identifying market opportunities and business models that meet the needs of underserved communities in emerging economies.

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.

Supporting the sustainable management of coral reefs and mangroves by quantifying their economic value.

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.

The Ecosystem Services Indicators Project is a partnership to develop a rigorous set of data indicators and frameworks to help integrate the ecosystem services approach with diverse public- and private-sector policy processes.

The Electricity Governance Initiative works with sector decision-makers and civil society to promote transparency, accountability, and public participation in the electricity sector.

The EMBARQ global network catalyzes environmentally and financially sustainable transport solutions to improve quality of life in cities.

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.

This project investigates ways to address the twin challenges of climate change and energy security within an integrated policy framework, and improve the understanding of these two issues in current legislation.

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.

Equity, Poverty and the Environment (EPE) works to reduce poverty and promote sound management of environmental resources by ensuring equitable access to ecosystem goods and services, and fair distribution of natural resource benefits.

WRI seeks to increase the ability of governments, businesses, and civil society to protect intact forest landscapes, manage working forests more effectively, and restore deforested lands.

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.

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.

The Governance of Forests Initiative is working to develop a framework of indicators for assessing and improving governance in the forest sector, as a precursor to determining whether markets can play a role in achieving emissions reductions from forests.

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.

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.

International climate negotiations are pivotal to determining whether—and how—the world will take action to avoid climate change over the next half century. WRI provides research and expert analysis on policies and climate solutions to assist in the ongoing negotiations in Copenhagen and beyond.