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China, the United States, and the Climate Change Challenge

By Deborah Seligsohn on October 21, 2009

As December’s climate change talks approach, a new WRI report discusses the successes and challenges to effective regulation in China.

Bottom Line on Cost Containment

October, 2009

Cap-and-trade programs are designed to increase the economic efficiency of emissions reductions and lower costs beyond command-and-control approaches alone. Cap-and-trade programs often incorporate features that add flexibility and/or increase price certainty to help address cost concerns. This fact sheet describes several common examples of cost containment mechanisms.

Keeping the Lights on in the State Laboratory

October, 2009

This issue brief evaluates five approaches to account for state-achieved reductions and address the state-to-state “leakage” problem under a federal cap-and-trade program.

China, the United States, and the Climate Change Challenge

Deborah Seligsohn, Robert Heilmayr, Xiaomei Tan, Lutz Weischer

October, 2009

This report discusses the successes and challenges to effective regulation in China. It also addresses U.S. competitiveness concerns in relation to the introduction of U.S. cap-and-trade policies, and specific opportunities for enhanced climate change cooperation between the two countries.

MEDIA ADVISORY: Southeast Companies to Highlight Business Case for Congressional Clean Energy and Climate Action

October 5, 2009
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

 

WHAT:

The World Resources Institute (WRI), the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and clean technology companies will host a Senate briefing for lawmakers, staff, and journalists Tuesday, October 6, 2009. Companies representing the emerging clean energy industry in the Southeast United States will share their perspectives on jobs and economic growth in clean energy. They will also express how energy and climate legislation affects small and medium-sized businesses and how such policy action can support a competitive Southeast economy.

United States Solar Radiation Map

Solar photovoltaic systems generate electricity using technologies that capture the energy in sunlight.

United States Wind Resource Map

Wind energy systems generate electricity by using turbines to capture the wind’s energy. Many locations in the United States have good wind resources.

WRI Advances Green Supply Chain Initiative

October 1, 2009
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) is stepping up its work on greening the supply chains of companies both big and small, thanks to a grant from Walmart.

New Energy Forecasts Show Time is Right for Senate Action

By John Larsen on October 1, 2009

WRI Senior Associate John Larsen answers questions about recent emissions reductions and what they mean for climate legislation.

Statement by WRI’s Jonathan Lash on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act

September 30, 2009
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

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.

Statement by WRI's Jennifer Morgan on Major UN Climate Meeting in New York

September 22, 2009
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

The United Nations met today in a special session to discuss climate change in New York. Jennifer Morgan, climate and energy program director of the World Resources Institute (WRI), today issued the following statement.

Indicators Needed to Illustrate Benefits from Ecosystems

September 21, 2009
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Existing data and indicators inadequately measure the important benefits people derive from the services nature provides, according to a working paper released today by the World Resources Institute (WRI).

Online Resource Puts Ecosystem Services Experts at Fingertips

September 15, 2009
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) and other leading international environmental organizations today launched the Ecosystem Services Experts Directory, a public online directory that allows journalists, business leaders, and governments to locate and contact specialists in ecosystem services.

MEDIA ADVISORY; Climate Briefing and Opportunity to Meet WRI’s New Climate Director and China Country Director

September 11, 2009
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

WHAT:

Please join the World Resources Institute (WRI) for a journalist-only climate change policy briefing next Friday that will arm you with fresh analysis and insight for this fall’s crowded climate agenda. WRI president Jonathan Lash will give an overview of domestic and international prospects for progress, and how they intersect. WRI’s new Climate and Energy Program Director, Jennifer Morgan, and our new China Country Director Zou Ji (bios attached) will provide unique insight into the UN climate negotiations and Chinese progress and thinking on climate action. This will be followed by a domestic policy panel. WRI analysts will deconstruct the American Clean Energy and Security Act (emission reductions, allowances, offsets, benefits to states etc) and our states policy team will dissect what federal climate legislators can learn from successful state climate actions

The briefing will be followed by a question and answer session and a happy hour for reporters to follow up individually with our climate experts.

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