Our Work

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.

Ecosystems provide many tangible benefits–or “ecosystem services”–to people around the world. WRI is helping governments, businesses, and multilateral development banks include these ecosystem services in their decision-making, with the ultimate goal of reducing ecosystem degradation around the world.

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.

New Ventures supports business solutions to the challenges of sustainable development by accelerating the growth of environmental enterprise in emerging markets.

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

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

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

Increase effectiveness of poverty reduction efforts through spatial analysis of ecosystem services. Policymakers will understand and act on linkages between poverty and ecosystem services and improve implementation of national strategies and plans.

Supporting sustainable palm oil production on low-carbon degraded land and improved forest management in Indonesia.

Degraded land in West Kalimantan. Credit: Sekala

Raising awareness of threats to coral reefs and providing information and tools to manage coastal habitats more effectively.

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.

WRI’s Southern Forests for the Future project seeks to raise awareness of the threats facing the forests of the southern United States and lay the foundation for increasing the acreage that is conserved or managed in a sustainable manner.

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 Access Initiative is the largest network in the world dedicated to ensuring that citizens have the right and ability to influence decisions about the natural resources that sustain their communities.

The Governance of Forests Initiative is a global network that promotes transparent, participatory, accountable, and coordinated governance of forest lands and resources.

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.

Working with EPA and other federal agencies to help design, inform and clarify U.S. government activities to reduce greenhouse gases.