Topic: united states

Online contest raises awareness about the public health benefits of sustainable urban development and transport in Latin America and Caribbean.

MEDIA ADVISORY: Global Investor Forum 2011 at NYU Stern

Six environmentally focused companies from emerging markets to present to investors;

Keynote by Mac Heller, Executive Chairman of CODA Automotive, panel discussion, and more

Two new leaders, Nigel Sizer and Robert Winterbottom, added to roster

WRI is accepting participants for Solar@Work, a new solar collaborative purchasing program.

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

On Tuesday, March 8, the Latin American Initiative at the Brookings Institution will host a panel discussion on lessons learned from Latin America and the applicability of bus rapid transit (BRT) in the United States.

Five Innovative, Environmentally-Focused Companies from Emerging Markets to Present at NYU Stern School on April 6, 2011

When it comes to providing clean water, investments in forest conservation can save money.

The issue brief provides an overview of how businesses and water utilities in the United States and Latin America are pursuing upstream forest conservation as a cost-effective means of ensuring clean water supplies. It also suggests how many of these approaches could be applicable in the southern United States.

In the Southern United States, the watersheds with the greatest ability to produce clean water and with the most consumers tend to be the forested watersheds of the east (top).

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” report presents comprehensive analysis of threats to coral reefs

More than 75 percent of the coral reefs in the Atlantic region are at risk from local threats (i.e., coastal development, overfishing/destructive fishing, marine-based pollution, and/or watershed-base

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The World Resources Institute (WRI) announced today that Dr. Kevin Kennedy will lead its U.S. Climate Initiative, within the Climate and Energy Program, starting in April 2011.