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Fact Sheet: How Nutrient Trading Can Help Restore the Chesapeake Bay

By Cy Jones on December 14, 2009

A new Fact Sheet on nutrient trading in the Chesapeake Bay region covers issues such as potential costs and revenues, and how farmers and other stakeholders can benefit.

Central African Indigenous Communities Given Voice in WRI Report on Forest Policy

December 12, 2009
Location: COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

Policies designed to counter deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries must account for the needs of indigenous communities that depend on forest resources.

New Hope for Restoring Forest Landscapes

By Lars Laestadius, Susan Minnemeyer, and Petr Potapov (South Dakota State University) on December 11, 2009

A new map shows a world of opportunity for restoration of forest landscapes. COP-15 negotiators should take note.

Fact Sheet: Stacking Payments for Ecosystem Services

By Nicholas Bianco on November 12, 2009

Payments for ecosystem services are becoming an increasingly important part of the U.S. business and regulatory landscape. As programs that provide payments for ecosystem services grow, policy makers will need to determine how these various payments should interact with each other.

Green Taxation

By Anna Mey Marmo on November 9, 2009

Ecosystem Services is playing a growing role in Brazilian environmental law.

Maps Link Clean Water, Sanitation, and Poverty for Uganda’s Development

October 8, 2009
Location: KAMPALA, UGANDA

A new set of maps illustrating levels of clean drinking water, sanitation facilities, and poverty in Uganda will help guide national development planning.

Maps Guide Water and Sanitation Planning in Africa

By Norbert Henninger and Florence Landsberg on October 8, 2009

State of the art GIS maps shed new light on Uganda’s development challenges.

MEDIA ADVISORY: Ecosystems and the Business Bottom Line: New Thinking on Nature's Assets

October 7, 2009
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Valuing Nature’s Assets: Business Accounts for Fresh Water, Biodiversity, Forests, Coral Reefs and Wetlands for Long-Term Viability and Profit

The earth’s diminishing natural and environmental resources are getting a new look from global business leaders – and not for the sake of philanthropy. Through new analytic approaches and tools that assess and value the fragile ecosystems virtually all businesses depend on, corporate leaders are beginning to understand that natural resources are as important to future profitability as interest rates or capital depreciation schedules.

Rainforest Preservation Project Underway in Indonesia

October 1, 2009
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C. and MIAMISBURG, OHIO

Palm Oil, Timber and Carbon Offsets (POTICO), a project of the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the NewPage Corporation, is making progress toward conserving rainforests in Indonesia by creating an ecologically and fiscally sustainable palm oil industry.

Caterpillar President, Experts in Clean Tech & Energy Markets Named Directors at WRI

September 25, 2009
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) has elected three new members to its board of directors:  Kathleen A. McGinty, a specialist in clean technologies and operating partner at Element LLC, Douglas R. Oberhelm, group president of sustainable development at Caterpillar, and Dr. Susan Tierney, an expert in energy policy and economics and a consultant at the Analysis Group, Inc.

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