Topic: international policy

With the Cancun climate meetings approaching, Jennifer Morgan, WRI’s director of climate and energy, contributed an editorial on the BBC World Service radio program One Planet.

WRI submitted comments to the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) Trust Fund Committees suggesting ways to improve the CIFs Results Frameworks.

The UN High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) released a new report today to mobilize $100 billion in international cli

What should President Obama and Prime Minister Singh focus on when they talk about energy and climate change? Our top three.

As the Tianjin climate negotiations come to a close, progress remains patchy. The forecast is still cloudy, but rays of sunlight are just starting to peak through.

Countries should step back and look at what their leaders agreed to in Copenhagen as they prepare for Tianjin and beyond.

Leading US-China Experts Discuss Tianjin and US-China Climate and Energy Issues.

Two countries that once eyed each other warily, India and the United States are building trust through mutually beneficial partnerships on climate and energy.

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In advance of the summit between President Obama and Prime Minister Singh as well as the United Nations climate change negotiations in Mexico, the World Resources Institute

Could a major industrialized country be powered entirely by renewable energy? Germany wants to be the first to try.

The German Embassy and the World Resources Institute will be hosting an event to discuss policies for Germany and the United States to move to a low-carbon future, as part of the German government’s “Transatlantic Climate Bridge” initiative.

The InterAcademy Council (IAC) released a report today detailing its findings on the processes and procedures of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

This working paper explores the types of information and supporting data necessary to ensure that national strategies to reduce emissions are developed and implemented effectively. It does so by focusing on measures to address illegal logging, drawing on specific strategies and recommendations from Peru and Indonesia

This paper was informed from an expert group meeting held at Columbia University, New York, on March 31, 2010.

This piece originally appeared on the World Bank Climate Change Blog.