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Ornanong (Dow) Martin manages mapping and monitoring solutions for landscape restoration champions in governments, non-profits, and businesses. In her previous...

Colombia advances its climate goals through multilevel action, empowering cities like Cali, Valledupar and Montería to implement resilient, low-carbon...

Brazilians are currently living in a dystopian landscape.Thick smoke, oppressive heat and eerily orange sunsets blanket both major cities and small villages....

Grasslands provide critical wildlife habitat, help mitigate climate change, and support food and livelihoods globally. Yet they're undervalued — and at...

The ocean plays a key role in regulating our climate, absorbing 26% of carbon dioxide emissions and 90% of excess heat.

As the U.S. ramps up critical mineral mining to meet booming demand, some rural communities are on the frontlines. Proactive engagement can help avoid risks.

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Pamela P. Flaherty is the former President and CEO of the Citi Foundation, and the Director of Corporate Citizenship at Citi. During Mrs. Flaherty’s 46-year...

New data shows that forest fires are getting worse, burning more than twice as much tree cover today as they did 20 years ago, largely due to climate change.

The Forest Pulse draws on the most recent data and analysis to reveal the latest trends in global forest loss and deforestation. This page is updated...

Farmers across Ghana’s Cocoa Belt are planting trees alongside cocoa to restore the land, enhance crop yields and grow their incomes.

Dr. Tom Pickerell is a marine biologist with over 20 years’ experience in ocean sustainability, including fisheries and aquaculture, climate change impacts...

Will the commitments made during the “super year of the ocean” help pursue a path for a healthy ocean?

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Saurabh Gupta is WRI’s General Counsel. In this role, Saurabh oversees WRI’s global legal function, serving as a trusted legal advisor to WRI’s global...

Most of the world's greenhouse gas emissions can be traced back to a few specific sectors. Industries and their associated infrastructure directly cause...

Sue Gander is the Director of the Electric School Bus Initiative. She leads a cross-organizational team in advancing the goal of equitably electrifying the US...

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Institutional investors, banks and other private sector financial institutions oversee trillions of dollars of investible capital. How they choose to deploy...

Robin King is the Director of Knowledge Capture & Collaboration at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.

Climate change, population growth and land subsidence will expose more people to dangerous floods. Aqueduct Floods maps the risks.

Dr. Lawrence E. Jones is an award-winning, thought leader and practitioner with over twenty-five years of experience in the energy industry. He joined Edison...

To achieve our three interconnected global goals for people, nature and climate, we focus on shifting the human systems that most directly affect them: food,...

Robyn is the Executive Director for P4G. Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 - contributes to green and inclusive growth in low- and...

As cities try to restore the benefits of natural systems by mimicking how ecosystems function, one option they can use is nature-based solutions (NBS)....

WRI works to shift financial flows away from activities that fuel climate change and toward solutions for an equitable, low-carbon, climate-resilient economy.

In the United States, the WRI Polsky Energy Center helps states, cities, corporates and other large buyers accelerate the transition to a clean energy future....

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In the wake of winter storm Fern, we unpacked why winter power outages are happening more often in the U.S. and what the country can do to help prevent them.

Climate change poses the greatest threat to those least responsible for it, including low-income and disadvantaged populations, women, racial minorities,...

What are the big ideas that WRI is working on, and how do we turn them into action? Each episode of WRI's Big Ideas into Action podcast examines a different...

WRI experts unpack what the 2025 UN climate summit achieved, where it fell short, and what comes next.

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WRI works with governments and civil society to conserve and restore forests and healthy landscapes to supply humanity with critical goods and services.

Alemayehu is a GIS Analyst with the Energy Access Explorer team, based in Addis Ababa.

WRI produces and curates open-source datasets and tools that support companies with sustainability reporting and compliance with regulations like CSRD.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency repealed its endangerment finding, marking a major climate rollback with public health and environmental impacts.

SynopsisMore than 1.25 million people are killed on roads each year, the majority in developing countries, making traffic fatalities the tenth leading cause of...

Michael Doust is Director of Urban Efficiency & Climate for WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. As part of WRI’s program focused on more accessible,...

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As Communications and Engagement Lead, Global Energy, Alex designs and implements communications strategies that strengthen the WRI Energy Program’s global...

Ruth Noguerón is a Senior Associate in the Forests Program. Ruth splits her time between Global Forest Watch and with the Forest Governance and Policy team.

This is an opportunity for partnerships to receive average grant funding of US $350,000 and technical assistance to help the early-stage business become...

New data show cropland greenhouse gas emissions account for nearly 5% of global net emissions. Four crops drive 67% of the impact — and hold a pathway to...

Teodyl Nkuintchua is the Congo Basin Strategy and Engagement Leader. In this role, he is responsible for advancing the organization’s mission in the Congo...

Tini Tran is Director for Global Communications and Engagement at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. She is responsible for global communications and...

Dr. Nirarta “Koni” Samadhi is the country director of WRI Indonesia. Formerly known as Deputy Minister of Indonesia’s Unit for Development Monitoring and...

Providing the private sector with research, guidance and tools to accelerate corporate sustainability ambition.

Ultimately all impact is local. Every country must undergo its own transition based on its specific context and needs. That’s why WRI has chosen to go deep in...

Mr. Levy is currently an Academic Fellow at Stanford University’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance. Mr. Levy has served as a World...

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Twenty years of data shows us just how must forest the world has lost — as well as the solutions that can help save remaining ecosystems.

Top Outcomes are WRI's biggest success stories. They occur when our analysis, research-based approaches or partnerships result in significant and positive...

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The transition to clean, abundant, reliable energy is happening — but not fast enough. WRI identified six key opportunities to accelerate global progress.

Illegal logging has devastating impacts on forests and communities that depend on them: the practice often removes precious hardwoods from forest areas,...

Güneş Cansız is the Director of WRI Türkiye where she leads a team of professionals working on implementation projects in Turkey. Prior to joining WRI, she...

Wildfires disproportionately affect Indigenous and local community lands. Indigenous fire management can curb wildfires and prevent forest cover loss.

Land & Carbon Lab develops breakthroughs in geospatial monitoring to help governments, businesses and communities to power solutions for sustainable...

The Aqueduct tools enable users to measure, map, and mitigate water risks around the world with its open-source, and high-resolution platform. It uses multiple...

Policy makers require reliable, up-to-date data to drive and make informed decisions on sustainable ocean management. While systems exist for specific...

Eliot is the Director of Sustainable Business & Innovation. He manages research on innovative business solutions to global environmental challenges. His...

Joel Jaeger is a Senior Research Associate at the World Resources Institute. His research focuses on the economics of climate policy, green jobs, and nonlinear...

Iman Abubaker is the Urban Mobility Project Manager for WRI Africa, specifically working on improving livability of cities through integrated and equitable...

Expanding competitive power trading and enabling customer access in the U.S. Southeast and West to increase reliability, affordability and decarbonization.

Bhawna is a Manager with the Climate Resilience Practice Program at the World Resources Institute India.

Kevin is GIS Associate for TerraMatch at WRI Africa.

Stientje van Veldhoven is the Vice President and Regional Director for Europe and is based in the Europe Regional Office in The Hague. Stientje has been a...

Feb 10, 2025 - WRI’s Global Forest Program works tirelessly to reverse deforestation, restore degraded lands, and eradicate illegal harvesting of wood products.

Despite more people than ever living in cities and another 2.5 billion expected to be added by 2050, too many residents lack access to basic services....

Valerie Laxton is a Senior Associate in WRI's Finance Center, where she leads the Center’s work to promote climate ambition at development finance...

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Gaia Larsen is Director Climate Finance Access in WRI’s Sustainable Finance Center, where she leads its work on getting ensuring access to climate finance...

There are a lot of misconceptions swirling about beef, its environmental impacts, how it's produced and whether to eat it. We examined the latest research...

New WRI research shows that diets high in meat and dairy strain land and water resources and fuel climate change. Paper author Richard Waite explains how he...

Beryl is a Food Loss and Waste Associate within the Food Program. In this role, she contributes to WRI’s agenda on Food Loss and Waste reduction and is...

A region is water secure when it has sufficient, clean and affordable water for livelihoods, public health and industry. Water crises threaten these critical...

Most countries have committed to tripling the world’s renewable energy capacity by 2030. This rapid scale-up will create a huge demand for “critical...

Kingasunye Naiguta remembers the vast Mau Forest that used to cover her home of Narok County in southwestern Kenya when she was young. She remembers her...

Henk Ovink was the first ever global water ambassador for over 8 years, appointed in 2015 by the Dutch Cabinet as Special Envoy for International Water Affairs.