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The World Resources Report is the flagship publication of World Resources Institute. The inaugural edition, An Assessment of the Resource Base that Supports the Global Economy, was published in 1986. Subsequent editions have been published at regular intervals and have provided in-depth analyses of issues ranging from human health and the environment to climate change, ecosystem services and environmental governance. Every World Resources Report builds on a strong evidence base to develop fresh insights that can help decision-makers evaluate and implement the most effective solutions.
Sustainably feeding nearly 10 billion people by 2050 is possible – but it will require significant innovation and investment by the public and private sector.
The World Resources Report: Towards a More Equal City focuses on helping cities in rapidly urbanizing regions alter their development trajectories as demand for infrastructure and services grow.
Creating monitoring programs may seem easy, but actually isn’t. There are three primary impediments: money, credible data, and communication skills. We emphasize communication skills because the best data in the world is useless if it lies fallow.
World Resources 2000-2001 is the definitive guide to the global environment. The millennial edition presents a comprehensive assessment of vie fo the world's major ecosystems:
Currently, countries measure their economic growth and performance through the System of National Accounts (SNA).
International climate change negotiations are struggling over the basic design and features of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), established in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Nearly 10 million hectares were burned by fires that engulfed areas of Indonesia in 1997 and 1998. The fires were mostly ignited by plantation companies and others eager to clear forest land as rapidly and cheaply as possible.
Recent years have brought new evidence of a burgeoning water crisis in mainland Southeast Asia. Cycles of flash floods and droughts emerged as the most serious threat to Vietnam’s growing agricultural economy.
Download full report in PDF format from WWF's Web site at https://www.panda.org/downloads/forests/tnc_report.pdf
In 1998 the leaders of the Group of Eight (Japan, France, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada and Russia) committed to actions that would help protect the world's forests.
In the United States today, almost 3,400 waterways are impaired by nutrient pollution. The Clean Water Act and other federal and state programs have helped to improve water quality, but much remains to be done to meet national goals.
Despite commitments to technology transfer and efforts to put in place a clean development mechanism (CDM), climate negotiators, civil society groups, and development finance experts have overlooked a set of public financing institutions who are already influencing the energy-intensity of develop
The international climate change negotiations over how the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) should operate, could become stuck over the question of how the CDM will be structured. A review of Parties' submissions reveals three clear alternatives for the CDM’s core structure....
This note aims to identify the broader implications of the Aarhus Convention and to influence the debate over disclosure policies by international and global institutions.
Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems (PAGE): Coastal Ecosystems analyzes quantitative and qualitative information and develops selected indicators of the condition of the world's coastal ecosystems and marine fisheries.
In recent years, international attention has increasingly focused on the rapid conversion and degradation of the world's tropical forests.
Yet half of the remaining large tracts of natural forest are found in northern (or boreal) regions.
Today's investors and companies are increasingly aware of the influence of environmental issues on the performance of their assets and businesses.
Over the last fifteen years, two of the most contentious issues faced by the World Bank have been its involvement in the forest sector and its structural adjustment lending.
This report addresses the intersection of these two arenas by asking:
The skyrocketing gasoline and diesel fuel prices of winter and early spring 2000 are the direct result of a deliberate, if modest (about 4 percent), reduction in global crude oil production by the OPEC cartel.
Central Africa's forests have a long history of human use. Large-scale commercial logging, however, is a recent phenomenon.
This report addresses the following questions:
Cameroon contains some of the Congo Basin's most biologically diverse and most threatened forests.
In light of the important issues that trade and forests entail, this report analyzes the risks and opportunities associated with proposed liberalization of international commerce in forest products.
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