Projects in Markets & Enterprise

WRI works with business partners, governments and civil society to confront today’s most urgent environmental challenges. We have over 50 active projects working on aspects of global climate change, sustainable markets, ecosystem protection, and environmentally responsible governance.

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

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 is the recognized leading publication that goes beyond the traditional business school rankings by benchmarking the integration of sustainability into MBA programs.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Develop methodologies, data, and indicators to advance the use of physical accounts of material throughput in the U.S. economy as a tool for formulating national environmental policies.

Supports sustainable enterprises by accelerating the transfer of capital to outstanding companies that incorporate social and environmental benefits.