Projects in Climate, Energy & Transport

WRI seeks to engage the private sector to help solve climate and energy challenges by sharing strategies and solutions with corporate partners and helping businesses capture the competitive advantages offered by a zero-carbon future.

WRI’s Carbon Dioxide 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.

Stabilizing the global climate in the 21st century will require major financial investments to transition the world’s economy on to a low-carbon path. WRI is addressing how these massive investments toward a low-carbon and resilient economy – which we refer to as climate finance –can be realized.

A WRI-wide initiative focused on Climate Finance and the Private Sector.

WRI and the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice created the Climate Justice Dialogue to mobilize political will and creative thinking to shape an equitable and ambitious international climate agreement in 2015.

Representatives from around the world are gathering in Doha, Qatar to find common ground in the fight against extreme climate change.

WRI aims to highlight the best proposals for the institutional design of an international climate change regime. This project is a joint endeavor of the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), with the support of the Government of Ireland.

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

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.

WRI provides research and expert analysis to help countries work together toward climate solutions that are ambitious and based on mutual trust and confidence.

The International Financial Flows and Environment Project (IFFE) works to improve the environmental and social decision making and performance of public and private International Financial Institutions (IFIs) by holding them accountable to their investors, to donor countries and to the communities that are impacted by their investments.

Working with nations to achieve the twin goals of robust economic growth and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

WRI works with business, policymakers, and researchers to move the world toward cleaner, less expensive forms of power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make low-carbon energy available everywhere.

Building the capacity of developing countries to track progress towards meeting domestic climate, energy, and development goals.

The National Adaptive Capacity (NAC) framework helps national institutions evaluate and improve their capacity to perform functions necessary for adaptation to climate change.

Harnessing innovation and opportunity to develop the business case, tools and metrics that advance corporate climate leadership for a zero-carbon, climate-resilient economy.

Building accountability and information to address climate change from the top down and the bottom up.

WRI works with businesses, governments, and researchers of all kinds to ensure that technologies to provide low-carbon energy effectively, efficiently, and inexpensively are available and deployed around the world.

Shale gas production is changing the global energy picture. WRI analysis is helping to clarify the challenges and opportunities of this complex energy source.

Ensuring that the opportunities of clean energy are available to the nations that need them most by guiding effective international collaboration on low-carbon technology.

The Two Degrees of Innovation project works with researchers, engineers, policymakers and other practitioners to create the conditions for global innovation in clean energy, from research to deployment.

WRI works to inform Congress about the opportunities and impacts of legislative proposals that affect U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and to help shape federal policies that will lead the U.S. on a path of low-carbon growth.

WRI produces cutting-edge analysis of climate and energy issues to help decision makers in the United States achieve needed emissions reductions.