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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Recent Climate Setbacks Will Not Derail the Green Transition

1 week ago | wri.org | Ani Dasgupta

At a moment when all countries need to raise their ambition on climate action, the opposite seems to be happening. Headline after headline show lackluster progress and rolled-back commitments. For one, climate change was a low priority for voters in 2024’s global wave of elections; only the UK elected a government that ran on a platform of climate ambition. Overseas development aid is decreasing — down an estimated 9-17% in 2025 — due to budget cuts in Europe and the dramatic dismantling of USAID.
The Tariff Fix: Wasting Less Food Could Make the World More Resilient

1 month ago | wri.org | Liz Goodwin

Is your head spinning yet from the tariff and global politics tug-o-war? Mine is. Unfortunately for consumers, the pain could get worse. A tit-for-tat in trade tariffs between the United States and countries around the world combined with tensions involving China, Canada, Mexico and Brazil — could reshape global trade, eventually driving up grocery store and restaurant prices.
Electrifying Communities: How Clean Cities and Communities Coalitions Bridge Policy and Practice in the Electric School Bus Transition

Mar 17, 2025 | 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

Mar 5, 2025 | 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.
Just Transitions Monitoring Guide

Mar 5, 2025 | wri.org | Neelam Singh |Chelsea Gomez |Cynthia Elliott |Mikayla Pellerin

Identifying and tracking justice-related indicators can provide data and evidence to design policies that support positive outcomes for all affected stakeholders, minimize unintended and non-desirable changes, enhance transparency and accountability, build trust among stakeholders and facilitate access to finance.
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.