World Resources Institute

WRI is an international research organization that collaborates with governments, companies, global institutions, and community groups to create effective solutions that enhance people's lives and safeguard the environment. Our efforts focus on seven major global challenges: Food, Forests, Water, Energy, Climate, the Ocean, and Cities. We examine these topics through the perspectives of our four Centers of Excellence: Business, Economics, Finance, and Governance.

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Electrifying Communities: How Clean Cities and Communities Coalitions Bridge Policy and Practice in the Electric School Bus Transition

1 month ago | wri.org | Charles Brown |Sophie Young |Alyssa Curran |Caitlin Macomber

Local and regional technical assistance providers are playing a key role in translating policy and supporting local implementation of clean transportation fuel transitions, such as electric school buses. This stakeholder analysis interviewed 29 Clean Cities and Communities (CC&C) coalitions on their involvement in the equitable transition to electric school buses across the United States.
Community Benefits Snapshot: North Plains Connector Transmission Line Community Engagement and Benefits

1 month ago | wri.org | Joe Hack |Josh Rogers

North Plains Connector is an approximately 420-mile interregional electricity transmission line that will be built from eastern Montana to central North Dakota. The line will connect the western and eastern electric grids and three transmission planning regions, making it one of the most impactful lines in development today.
Thinking Beyond the Borehole: Safe Water Supplies Begin with Healthy Watersheds

Jan 22, 2025 | wri.org | Francesca Battistelli

Contributors: Brett Gleitsmann (Conrad N. Hilton Foundation) and Jason Lopez (Millennium Water Alliance)Expanding water coverage to un- or under-served communities while ensuring that existing sources are safe, functioning and continuous is a fundamental development objective of our time. But less reliable and manageable water supplies — driven by deteriorating environmental and climatic conditions — threaten our ability to do so.
Community Benefits Snapshots: SOO Green Transmission Line Community Engagement and Benefits

Jan 9, 2025 | wri.org | Joe Hack |Josh Rogers

The SOO Green High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Link is a 350-mile interregional underground electricity transmission line built mostly along an existing railroad right of way in Iowa and Illinois. The first of its kind in the United States, the project also aims to create local jobs and construct parallel infrastructure projects identified as priorities by the community; it has already begun giving out good neighbor payments to landowners whose property abuts the railway.
Sustainable Cities Challenge: Semi-Finalists to Innovate Detroit's Eastern Market Announced

Nov 27, 2024 | wri.org | Thet Tun

The Toyota Mobility Foundation announced the 10 semi-finalists for its Sustainable Cities Challenge in Detroit, Michigan. Developed in partnership with the City of Detroit, Challenge Works and World Resources Institute (WRI), the Challenge sought global innovators to present solutions to decrease fossil fuel use and reduce costs of freight operations in Detroit’s Eastern Market.
How Much Food Does the World Really Waste? What We Know — and What We Don’t

Nov 25, 2024 | wri.org | Liz Goodwin |Brian Lipinski

Around one-third of all food the world produces never gets eaten — at least according to the long-accepted estimate. But the problem is likely much bigger than this. More recent data suggests up to 40% of food is lost or wasted along the value chain, exposing a major blind spot in global food systems. The consequences of this food waste, even at the lower end of the estimates, are huge.
Community Benefits Snapshot: Stillwater Good Neighbor Agreement

Nov 22, 2024 | wri.org | Devashree Saha |Jim Thomas

The Stillwater good neighbor agreement, signed in 2000, is a legally binding contract between Sibanye-Stillwater Mining Company and three local organizations: Northern Plains Resource Council, Cottonwood Resource Council, and Stillwater Protective Association.
Multilateral Development Bank Climate Finance: The Good, Bad and Urgent

Nov 14, 2024 | wri.org | Natalia Alayza |Valerie Laxton |Carolyn Neunuebel |Joe Thwaites

MDB Climate Finance SeriesFor the past eight years, we have analyzed MDBs’ Joint Reports on Climate Finance and highlighted key takeaways behind the headlines. Editions include 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are major providers of the climate finance vulnerable nations need to reduce emissions and adapt to climate change.
Denmark’s Groundbreaking Agriculture Climate Policy Sets Strong Example for the World

Nov 12, 2024 | wri.org | Tim Searchinger |Richard Waite

Denmark’s groundbreaking new agriculture and climate policy, which taxes greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from livestock production, restores nature and pays farmers to reduce nitrogen pollution, is the world’s most comprehensive national effort to address the environmental challenges of agriculture. Globally, agriculture and associated land use change contribute around one quarter of GHG emissions.
China Is Providing Billions in Climate Finance to Developing Countries

Nov 7, 2024 | wri.org | Shuang Liu |Lihuan Zhou |Chris Qihan Zou |Yan Wang

The climate crisis is escalating at an alarming rate, causing devastation around the world — especially in countries that contribute little to the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Coping with climate impacts and investing in the transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient future present special challenges for developing countries.