Topic: water

WRI mapped water scarcity data with plant locations for the largest publicly listed power generation companies in Southeast Asia.

WHAT: The World Resources Institute (WRI) and HSBC’s Climate Change Centre of Excellence will hold a Tele-press conference to discuss three new reports analyzing the environmental risks facing the electricity, food & beverage and building sectors in South Asia.

This report identifies the potential financial impacts arising from climate change and water scarcity on the food and beverage sector in South and Southeast Asia.

Financial analysts need tools to make better decisions about investments that depend on water.

This working paper describes the rationale for nutrient trading in the Chesapeake Bay region and estimates the economic benefits, including potential benefits to the agriculture, wastewater, and stormwater sectors.

Despite projections, many financial analysts ignore the risks and opportunities associated with environmental trends. ENVEST seeks to change this.

A new project will help identify and measure the water-related risks facing companies and their investors, and lead to better environmental decisions.

WHAT: For the seventh straight year, Jonathan Lash, president of the World Resources Institute, will hold a briefing for journalists to preview key environmental issues to watch this year.

Jonathan Lash, president of the World Resources Institute (WRI), will brief journalists on January 7 at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on upcoming environmental issues in 2010, including climate, business action, water, forests and more.

Lawmakers should consider a suite of policies to reduce harmful algal blooms and dead zones caused by eutrophication–the over-enrichment of nitrogen and phosphorous in freshwater and coastal ecosystems.

Nutrient pollution emerges as one of the greatest threats to water quality.

A new Fact Sheet on nutrient trading in the Chesapeake Bay region covers issues such as potential costs and revenues, and how farmers and other stakeholders can benefit.

Payments for ecosystem services are becoming an increasingly important part of the U.S. business and regulatory landscape. As programs that provide payments for ecosystem services grow, policy makers will need to determine how these various payments should interact with each other.

In the 1980s, Thailand’s government, initially supported by the World Bank, focused on a single ecosystem service—aquaculture—to supply a growing frozen shrimp export industry.

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A new set of maps illustrating levels of clean drinking water, sanitation facilities, and poverty in Uganda will help guide national development planning.

Thermal Power and Hydropower Plant Locations and Water Stress Level

MEDIA ADVISORY: Tele-Press Conference on Environmental Risks Facing Major Business Sectors in South Asia

Weeding Risk: Financial Impacts of Climate Change and Water Scarcity on Asia’s Food and Beverage Sector

Water Risk Could Sink Investors

How Nutrient Trading Could Help Restore the Chesapeake Bay

Adding Environmental Risk to the Financial Equation

Betting on Water

WRI’s Jonathan Lash to Brief Journalists on Environmental “Stories to Watch” for 2010

Save the Date for WRI's Environmental Stories to Watch 2010 Press Briefing

NEWS RELEASE: Suite of Policies Could Clean Up Polluted Waters

Protecting Waterways from a Deadly Problem

Fact Sheet: How Nutrient Trading Can Help Restore the Chesapeake Bay

Fact Sheet: Stacking Payments for Ecosystem Services

Comparing the Economic and Social Value of Mangroves and Shrimp Farms

Maps Link Clean Water, Sanitation, and Poverty for Uganda’s Development

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