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On May 11, WRI hosted an official side event at the 15th meeting of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development.

The former executive director of the Bank Information Center (BIC) has joined WRI as its new executive vice president and managing director. Manish Bapna, the former executive director of the Bank Information Center (BIC), has joined the World Resources Institute (WRI) as its new executive vice president and managing director. < p>

34 U.S. states, 2 Canadian provinces, and 2 Native American nation establish a single, unified GHG emissions accounting system.

An April Washington Post article convincingly highlighted how

The new atlas of Kenya is designed to improve understanding of the relationships between poverty and the environment.
When the United Nations wanted help exploring legal empowerment of the poor, it turned to the experts of WRI’s Institutions and Governance Program.

STATEMENT OF JONATHAN SOHN
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE

A new non-profit/for-profit hybrid model suggests that economic, social, and environmental gains are the same. But this “fourth sector” needs long-term, committed finance in order to grow.