Projects
| Title | Summary |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Sustainable Development Policies and Measures (SDPAMs) | WRI's SDPAMs initiative aims to find ways to help major developing countries find policies and measures that meet their own sustainable development goals more effectively, while creating significant benefits for the global climate. |
| US Climate Business Group | The U.S. Climate Business Group builds strategies for companies to thrive in a carbon-constrained economy. |
| Vulnerability and Adaptation | Reducing human and ecosystem vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. |
| Watershed and Water Scarcity Indicators | Developing indicators to manage water for people and nature. Special focus is placed on balancing water-use between the agriculture sector and freshwater ecosystems, highlighting the importance of sustaining functioning ecosystems. |