Topic: climate change

How the climate crisis will transform the global economy.

WRI seeks to engage the private sector to help solve climate and energy challenges by sharing strategies and solutions with corporate partners and helping businesses capture the competitive advantages offered by a zero-carbon future.

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

The World Resources Institute (WRI), a global environmental think tank, and InnoCentive, the world leader in Challenge Driven Innovation, announced a new Challenge and $10,000 prize for solutions to help local communities communicate what they need to adapt to changing climate conditions.

Scenario exercises look at the how and why of decision-making for climate change.

New global guidance will provide common approaches for calculating carbon emissions of ICT products and services

WRI aims to highlight the best proposals for the institutional design of an international climate change regime. This project is a joint endeavor of the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), with the support of the Government of Ireland.

This piece originally appeared on ChinaFAQs.org

The two defining challenges of this century are climate change and poverty. Our challenge is to find a way to deal with both, at the same time.

This piece originally appeared on the World Resources Report website.

The Office of Inspector General released a report today clearing scientists at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of wrongdoing with regard to the stolen emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) in November 2009.

Reefs at Risk Revisited reveals a new reality about coral reefs and the increasing stresses they are under.

This piece originally appeared as the foreword to Reefs at Risk Revisited.

“Reefs at Risk Revisited” report presents comprehensive analysis of threats to coral reefs

Mapping of past thermal stress on coral reefs (1998–2007) suggests that almost 40 percent of reefs may have been affected by thermal stress, meaning they are located in areas where water temperature

Approximately 370 observations of coral bleaching were reported globally between 1980 and 1997, while more than 3,700 were reported between 1998 and 2010.

This report provides a detailed assessment of the status of and threats to the world’s coral reefs. It evaluates threats to coral reefs from a wide range of human activities, and includes an assessment of climate-related threats to reefs. It also contains a global assessment of the vulnerability of nations and territories to coral reef degradation. Read more

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Business and Climate

Next Practice Collaborative: Business in a Zero-Carbon Economy

PRESS RELEASE: WRI and InnoCentive Issue Challenge Seeking Communication Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation

Ghana and Vietnam Scenarios Foreshadow How Decisions on Climate Adaptation Are Made

PRESS RELEASE: New initiative announced to help ICT industry measure carbon footprint

Designing the International Climate Regime

How Does China’s 12th Five-Year Plan Address Energy and the Environment?

Towards a Climate Safe Common Future

PRESS STATEMENT: WRI Responds to Inspector General's Report on NOAA Scientists

A Wake Up Call to Save Coral Reefs

PRESS RELEASE: 75% of World’s Coral Reefs Currently Under Threat, New Analysis Finds

Thermal Stress on Coral Reefs between 1998 and 2007

Trends in Coral Bleaching, 1980-2010

Reefs at Risk Revisited

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