2022 Top Outcomes

With technical guidance from WRI, Bogotá became the first Colombian city to implement a speed limit of 50 km/hr., saving hundreds of lives. The policy’s success inspired the National Road Safety Agency to set speed limits in all Colombian cities.

WRI Indonesia facilitated participatory mapping of Papua’s Indigenous territories to secure communities’ land tenure and help protect 300,000 hectares of customary forests.

Leveraging WRI partnerships and research, IKEA cut food waste by 54% across its 400 in-store restaurants.

Through research, technical advice and capacity-building, WRI is helping the Ethiopian government cut traffic fatalities by 50% while enhancing safety for pedestrians and cyclists.

WRI India worked with Kochi’s local government to establish urban forests in flood- and heat-prone areas of the city. These green spaces are building communities’ resilience to the impacts of climate change, creating employment opportunities and improving quality of life.

With support from WRI’s Electric School Bus Initiative and its partners, all of New York’s school buses will be electric by 2035, with $500 million in state funding to support the transition.

Thanks to WRI’s Energy Access Explorer platform and initiative, governments and others are developing data-driven, inclusive and integrated energy plans, and more than 30 rural health facilities in India and Kenya get affordable electricity through renewable energy.

In partnership with the Fijian government, WRI created a comprehensive National Climate Finance Strategy, a blueprint to guide investments toward the most-needed mitigation and adaptation projects.