Synopsis

Highlights of our work at WRI that produced some remarkable results in 2003.

Executive Summary

The global issues that the World Resources Institute worked to put on the international agenda 20 years ago have emerged as major challenges of the Twenty-First Century:

  • climate change,
  • the loss of biodiversity,
  • desertification,
  • forest and reef destruction, and
  • growing stress on freshwater resources.

This drives our work at WRI and produced some remarkable results in 2003. Some of these results are highlighted in this report.