Sentences with phrase «as wri»

Nate Aden is a Senior Fellow with WRI's Business Center, as well as the WRI Climate Program.

As WRI Board member and Zipcar co-founder Robin Chase said, «Simply eliminating drivers from cars, and keeping everything else about our system the same, would be a disaster.»

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WRI partnered with Evolved Energy Research in modeling pathways to a clean energy economy, working with Ben Haley, Ryan Jones, and Gabe Kwok as principal analysts alongside Jim Williams, Director of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project.

This case study was submitted by Kasey Harris, John Laughead, and George Parmenter (Delhaize America) with input and review by Liz Goodwin, Craig Hanson, Richard Waite, and Kai Robertson (representatives of WRI), as well as FLW Protocol Steering Committee representative Scyllia Ahlouwa (The Consumer Goods Forum).

This case study was submitted by Andy Mayer, Cranswick plc, with input and review by Liz Goodwin, Brian Lipinski, Emily Neagle, and Kai Robertson (representatives of WRI), as well as FLW Protocol Steering Committee representative Richard Swannell (WRAP).

During his time at WRI, he has worked extensively on the topic of food loss and waste, having served as the lead author on the paper «Reducing Food Loss and Waste».

We are also working with UNEP to develop major international flagship projects as part of the 10 - Year Framework of Programmes for sustainable development and of course, we are working with WRI on a food loss and waste protocol.

Citing as an example an urban infrastructure improvement project in a municipality of China, WRI researcher Milap Patel said, «without even a risk screening, we didn't know whether this project was vulnerable to climate change.»

Sizer of WRI said that in trying to reduce global emissions, Canadian and Russian policymakers should attempt to limit human - caused wildfires, as well as other forms of forest clearing.

DIR: Martin Scorsese • WRI: Laeta Kalogridis • PRO: Brad Fischer, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Martin Scorsese • DOP: Robert Richardson • ED: Thelma Schoonmaker • DES: Dante Ferretti • CAST: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams There are 2 ways to approach Shutter Island — one is as a masterfully constructed cinematic homage; the other is as a return by Martin Scorsese to the overblown schlock fest of Cape Fear.

It will be interesting to see if NGO's such as NRDC, WRI, and Pew get on board.

As EMBARQ, the WRI Center for Sustainable Transport, we worked with the former government of Mexico City to develop the 12 mile long Bus Rapid Transit System «Metrobus» on Avenida Insurgentes now carrying over 250 000 people / day for a cost of well under $ 100 million (see / / www.embarq.wri.org).

WRI's CAIT Equity Explorer incorporates criteria such as historical emissions, levels of economic development, capacity to adapt to climate change, and potential to reduce emissions.

The next target region was Mbeya, which WRI and New Ventures» maps identified as a potential target based on criteria of household electricity availability, asset ownership and mobile agent penetration.

It was a shift that made perfect sense on paper, but not on the ground, where the country's forest fires have been pumping more greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere than do all the planes, trains, and factories of the United States, as the World Resources Institute (WRI) pointed out in a blog post called Indonesia's Fire Outbreaks Producing More Daily Emissions than Entire US Economy.

The Initiative serves as a nexus for international climate policy across WRI, drawing on the organization's expertise on a wide range of issues including greenhouse gas reporting, adaptation, finance, energy, forests, cities, and water.

New research from WRI and others shows that stopping deforestation, restoring forests and improving forestry practices could cost - effectively remove 7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, or as much as eliminating 1.5 billion cars.

These accounting protocols are known as ISO -14064-1 and the WRI / WBCSD GHG Accounting Protocol.

On the board of directors of the WRI we find Al Gore — as well as the president of another activist body, the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Mouse - over each photo for commission members other affiliations such as: INET WRI SE4All Rocky Mountain Institute And other organizations.

The Dialogue, co-sponsored by Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme - Cameroon (BDCPC), Cameroon Ecology, the Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection, and Sustainable Development (MINEPDED), and WRI's Governance of Forests Initiative (GFI), provided a forum for government and civil society members to talk frankly about strengthening governance as part of Cameroon's REDD + program.

Subrata works as Managing Associate with Climate Program of WRI.

In addition, he also supports some activities of IGHGP — a flagship initiative by WRI India, such as promotion of GHG inventories, capacity building, tool development and managing GHG emissions for Indian corporate.

WRI's Michael Oko sees persistence, determination and the increasing clarity of climate science as key factors.

WRI announced 25 new partners to the Building Efficiency Accelerator as part of the UN SE4All initiative and presented the New Climate Economy message of better transport, better climate.

The program is a public - private partnership between companies, NGO partners such as SE4All and WRI, and 28 cities looking to demonstrate and scale solutions for building energy efficiency.

As a partner in the project, WRI documented a four - step process developed by USAID Mekong ARCC that integrates local and scientific data to develop adaptation plans, and revealed lessons on implementing the four - step process.

WRI's new working paper, China's Overseas Investments in the Wind and Solar Industries: Trends and Drivers, helps to better understand China's renewable energy investments overseas, as well as the policy and market forces that drive them.

WRI is proud to be supporting this effort as an executing partner of the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction.

As Sustainable Brands» New Metrics»17 conference kicked off in Philadelphia on Monday, speakers from SASB, CSRLab, WRI, the World Happiness Summit and more presented a range of topics revolving...

At WRI, we pride ourselves in being a mission - driven organization that defines success as bringing about positive outcomes in the world.

To help answer these questions, WRI has been working as part of The Access Initiative (TAI) to encourage governments to develop specific recommendations for Rio +20.

As analysis from WRI has shown, curtailing methane emissions is critical if the United States is to meet its 2020 and 2025 emissions - reduction targets.

Rather than provide a thorough summary of the proceedings, I will focus on what I thought was the key message that lays at the core of Economy's testimony, but was also touched upon by Lieberthal and Chandler - the need for measurable, reportable and verifiable (MRV) actions (< — very helpful WRI report, btw), as called for in the Bali Action Plan.

Experts in this WRI Podcast examine nutrient trading as a potential solution.

That line already carries more than 260,000 passengers each day and has shortened commute times by up to an hour, as well as reduced air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, according to WRI.

Total emissions by six heat - trapping gases in 2005 were more than 36 thousand million tonnes (36 gigatonnes) as measured in CO2, according to the WRI index.

New work underway at WRI will help states accomplish this by examining available technologies and best practices to reduce methane emissions, as well as proposing key requirements that should be part of any new laws or standards.

Jonathan Lash, the sixth President of Hampshire College, has served previously as president of World Resources Institute (WRI), senior staff attorney of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and...

A new analysis from the World Resources Institute (WRI) seeks to answer that question by looking at seven different studies that estimate what the US» annual emissions levels will be in 2025 under a range of possible scenarios based on Trump's policies (such as whether the Trump Admin succeeds in overturning the Clean Power Plan or not) versus what would happen if Obama's policies were left intact.

Here's a quick video on eutrophication from SUNY via WRI: Follow Jaymi on Twitter for more stories like this More on Dead Zones Dead Pigs: Scientists» Latest Tool in Understanding Ocean Dead Zones Everest Death Zone (Video News) First - Ever Animals Found Living Without Oxygen in Marine Dead Zone BP Oil Spill Causing More Gulf Dead Zones as Methane Levels Increase

In the lead up to the Summit, WRI researchers will take a close look at G20 countries» progress toward meeting their targets under the Paris Agreement as part of our G20 Climate Progress blog series.

As colleagues from WRI's Climate program explained, very few multilateral UN agreements of this significance are written and put into force within one year.

This required at least 55 countries representing at least 55 percent of emissions to join — as I write this post, WRI's real - time Paris Tracker shows that 84 countries representing 61 percent of emissions have now joined the Agreement.

Under contract to WBCSD she served as an advisor for the creation of WRI / WBCSD's Supply Chain and Product Footprinting Protocols, and has taught graduate level life cycle analysis (LCA) at the Colorado School of Mines.

Prior to WRI, she worked as an advocacy campaigner and policy analyst in the Pacific Northwest around industrial pollution and toxic chemical public health issues.

A new infographic from WRI reveals the history of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, as well as what needs to happen to stay within world's «carbon budget» and prevent the most disastrous impacts of climate change.

New analysis from The Nature Conservancy, WRI and others estimates that stopping deforestation, restoring forests and improving forestry practices could cost - effectively remove 7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, or as much as eliminating 1.5 billion cars — more than all of the cars in the world today!