Stories: People & Ecosystems

This piece originally appeared in the Washington Post Environmental Leadership supplement on April 20, 2011, and is reposted with permission.

A highly anticipated two-year moratorium on new forest conversion permits could bring fundamental improvements to forest and land management in Indonesia.

The global recession has brought new attention to chronic structural flaws in current economic models and assumptions. As economies struggle to recover, many are taking a closer look at the broad concept of a “Green Economy,” one that simultaneously promotes sustainability and economic growth What would this type of economy look like, and how could we get there? WRI Managing Director Manish Bapna responds to some of the most commonly-asked questions:

WRI and the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation, and Tourism (MECNT) are pleased to announce the release of the interactive map viewer for the Forest Atlas of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A new issue brief shows how public forestland can be “put to work” to increase revenue in the southern United States.

The World Bank Group should aim to achieve and measure poverty reduction, not palm oil investments.

WRI identifies 13 new eutrophic areas around the world.

Destroying reefs via the ‘one-two’ of climate change and locally unregulated fishing will hit the economies of dozens of countries.