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Global companies are under increasing pressure to be energy efficient, from New York City to Shanghai. Financing has long been a barrier, but a variety of financing tools can help unlock capital flows. To help governments and business understand how they can leverage energy efficiency investment, we explain five public-private financing mechanisms.

Current use valuation programs can encourage landowners to resist development pressures and leave forest as forest.

Working with EPA and other federal agencies to help design, inform and clarify U.S. government activities to reduce greenhouse gases.

WRI works to inform Congress about the opportunities and impacts of legislative proposals that affect U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and to help shape federal policies that will lead the U.S. on a path of low-carbon growth.

Despite their benefits to national economies, reefs around the world are at risk, including in the United States.

Offers six principles of smart energy policy for developing countries

These tables serve as a reference document containing the key design elements of nutrient trading programs in four Chesapeake Bay states: Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.

In its final report on America’s Climate Choices, the National Research Council asserts that there is a “pressing need for substantial action” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change.

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2011 edition of The Environmental Forum (www.eli.org), and is reposted with permission.

In two legal challenges filed in the wake of the Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, a number of states and non-governmental organizations sought to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate new and existing power plants under section 111 of the Clean Air Act.

WRI’s response to the Bingaman-Murkowski White Paper on the design of a clean energy standard in the United States.

While the Senate recently defeated four bills or amendments that would restrict EPA’s authority, it r

S.699 authorizes the Department of Energy to conduct a program to demonstrate commercial application of integrated geologic storage projects, and provides a framework for selection criteria for these

In this testimony, Senior Advisor Deborah Seligsohn discusses China’s energy systems, future energy plans, and the business opportunities these create for other countries.

Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson was elected to the Board of Directors of the World Resources Institute, announced its president Jonathan Lash.

Bottom Line on Public-Private Finance Tools for Energy Efficiency

Property Tax Incentives for Forest Conservation in the U.S. South

U.S. Federal Agencies and Climate Change

U.S. Climate & Energy Legislation

WRI Warns of Threats to Coral Reefs at Capitol Hill Ocean Week

PRESS RELEASE: New Paper Lays Out Smart Policies for Renewable Energy Growth

Comparison Tables of State Nutrient Trading Programs in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

WRI Responds to National Research Council's Final Report on America's Climate Choices

Old Roads to a New Destination

Dialogue on Performance Standards for Existing Power Plants: Participant Comments to EPA

How to Design a Clean Energy Standard

Bills That Would Limit the U.S. EPA's Clean Air Act Authorities

WRI Summary of S. 699: Department of Energy Carbon Capture and Sequestration Program Amendments Act of 2011

Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power: The Transformation of China's Energy System

Former Governor Bill Richardson Joins WRI's Board of Directors

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