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RELEASE: WRI Receives $2 Million Grant from GEF to Accelerate Building Efficiency WASHINGTON (May 24, 2018)— World Resources Institute (WRI) announced a $2 million grant from the Global Environmental Facility to scale up the efforts of the Building Efficiency Accelerator (BEA) in its second phase. The funding will help the Accelerator – one of Sustainable Energy for All’s initiatives to support specific sector-based energy efficiency – scale up national engagement from local cities, deepen...

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RELEASE: New WRI Project to Bring Clean Electricity to 1 Million People in India and East Africa IKEA Foundation Gives WRI $2.3 Million to Support Clean Electricity WASHINGTON (May 23, 2018)— World Resources Institute (WRI) announced a $2.3 million grant from the IKEA Foundation to bring clean electricity to a combined 1 million people in India and East Africa. The funding will help integrate affordable, reliable and clean electricity for all – an inaccessibility for more than 1.1 billion...

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Forests and Wetlands Are Water Infrastructure. New Green Bond Helps Finance Their Protection Comments|Add Comment|PrintHealthy forests can help filter water, buffer against floods and regulate flow. Photo by Wikipedia East Africa’s Kariba Dam is almost empty due to diminishing rains. In Brazil, Sao Paulo’s reservoirs were reduced to dried mud three years ago, and experts say the city is heading toward another dry spell. Catastrophic floods recently wreaked havoc in southern England, Texas and...

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Boosting the Cool Factor of Energy Efficiency Comments|Add Comment|PrintAn apprentice trains for a job in energy efficiency. Flickr/EE Image Database This post originally appeared on Foresight. Energy efficiency's image is due for a makeover. Long seen as one of the simplest ways to reduce consumer costs, energy efficiency also offers multiple benefits that improve people's lives while cutting air pollution and curbing climate-warming emissions. And yet, somehow, a certain "cool factor" has...

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As Apple, Google and Others Promote Renewable Power, What Is the Best Way to Evaluate Corporate Energy Leadership? Comments|Add Comment|PrintSolar panels installed at the Googleplex. Flickr/Avinash Kaushik At 62 percent of U.S. retail electric sales, commercial and industrial electricity consumers can substantially influence the demand for renewable energy and accelerate the pace of electric sector decarbonization. The good news is that businesses are increasingly interested in – and...

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RELEASE: WRI Africa Opens with a Focus on Forests, Cities, and Water ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA//WASHINGTON (May 15, 2018)—Building on decades of work across the continent, World Resources Institute inaugurated a new regional office, WRI Africa, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Drawing on WRI’s global knowledge base, hands-on experience in emerging economies, and prior work in Africa, WRI Africa will have a dual role: engaging with partners in Ethiopia and serving as a hub for WRI’s growing engagement in...

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Forests Could Be Casualties in a U.S.-China Trade War Comments|Add Comment|PrintSoybean production in the U.S. could shift to Brazil if China imposes tariffs. As the threat of a trade war between the United States and China looms and rhetoric escalates, an ominous side effect has been left out of the discussion: the potential impacts on forests and the climate. Recently, China announced that it would impose a 25 percent tariff on U.S. agricultural products including soybeans, wheat, corn,...

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Bonn Climate Talks Yield Some — But Not Enough — Progress Putting the Paris Agreement Fully Into Motion Comments|Add Comment|PrintLatest round of climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany. Photo by UNClimateChange/Flickr Negotiators made progress in a number of areas at the latest UN climate talks, which wrapped on May 10, but an overburdened agenda left them with a lot more ground to cover before the big climate summit (COP24) in Katowice, Poland this December. Negotiators must now ramp up...

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These 20 Water-Stressed Countries Have the Most Solar and Wind Potential Comments|Add Comment|PrintSolar panels in Utah, United States. Photo by J. St. Sauver, USFWS Most power generation consumes water, whether to cool steam in thermoelectric plants or power turbines for hydropower. And the global demand for both water and electricity will continue to increase substantially in the coming decades. Although growth is generally a good thing for the economy, it challenges nations—particularly ones...

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STATEMENT: Negotiators Kept a Good Pace at Bonn Climate Talks, But A Lot of Ground Still to Cover Ahead of COP24 BONN//WASHINGTON (May 10, 2018) - As the UN climate negotiations wrapped up in Bonn, Germany, following is a statement from Paula Caballero, Global Director, Climate Program, World Resources Institute: “Climate negotiators kept up a good pace this week, but will be leaving Bonn with a lot more ground to cover to get to the finish line in Poland this December. At the next...

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RELEASE: Distinguished Jury for First ‘WRI Ross Prize for Cities’ Announced to Identify and Reward Transformative Urban Projects Sir David Adjaye, Lord Norman Foster, Jean Liu, Rahul Mehrotra, Yousef Al Otaiba, Sheela Patel, Marinela Servitje, Steve Strongin, and Jim Umpleby join Stephen M. Ross on jury WASHINGTON (May 8, 2018) — Nine distinguished urban leaders from diverse backgrounds and geographies joined Chairman Stephen M. Ross on the jury of the WRI Ross Prize for Cities today, lending...

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Mass Transit Is a Public Good. Everyone—Not Just Riders—Should Pay For It. Comments|Add Comment|PrintLooking out onto the Delhi Metro tracks in Badarpur. Flickr/Axel Drainville For some time, there has been an ongoing tussle between the Government of Delhi and the National Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs about increasing fares for Delhi's metro rail system. While this instance is particular to Delhi, the same debate is happening in cities around the world: Who should pay for mass...

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Global Forest Watch GLAD Alerts Help Protect Sumatra’s Leuser Rainforest Ecosystem Comments|Add Comment|PrintUsing Forest Watcher in the Leuser Ecosystem to record evidence of a new palm oil plantation. Photo by HAkA Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, on Sumatra’s northern end, is the world’s third-largest rainforest after South America’s Amazon and Africa’s Congo. Spread across 6.5 million acres (over 2.6 million hectares), the Leuser rainforest and surrounding ecosystem is the last place on Earth...

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Q&A: Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Explain How They Killed a $76 Billion Secret Nuclear Deal in South Africa Comments|Add Comment|PrintLiz McDaid and Makoma Lekalakala. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize South Africa made a secret deal with the Russian government in 2014: In exchange for $76 billion, Russia would build up to 10 nuclear power stations throughout the country that would produce up to 9.6 gigawatts of power. In both scope and cost, it would be the world's largest such...

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At Climate Talks, a “Bicycle” Built for Bonn Comments|Add Comment|PrintBikes at COP23 in Bonn, Germany. Photo by WRI In this pivotal year for driving forward climate action, the process to transform the 2015 Paris Agreement into a reality has claimed center stage, marking a major milestone for global leadership on climate change. Climate negotiators meeting in Bonn this week will focus on developing a rulebook to implement the historic accord and assessing the strengthened action needed to put...

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Vietnam's Champion for Renewable Energy: Q&A with Goldman Prize Winner Khanh Nguy Thi Comments|Add Comment|Print Khanh Nguy Thi grew up near a coal plant in Bac Am, a village in northern Vietnam. While Nguy Thi's lifelong dream was to become a diplomat, the memory of pollution in her hometown pulled her toward work in water conservation and community development. In 2011, Khanh founded the Green Innovation and Development Centre (GreenID) to promote sustainable energy development in...

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Through Talanoa Dialogue, New Paths for Enhanced Action on Climate Change Are Emerging Comments|Add Comment|PrintBonn, Germany. Photo by Felipe Reis/Flickr The Talanoa Dialogue process, launched at the start of this year, represents the international community’s first attempt to take stock of progress under the Paris Agreement. Recognizing that current efforts are not sufficient to limit global warming and protect our communities from the devastating impacts of climate change, the Dialogue...

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