Sentences with phrase «at wri»

Himayatus Shailhah (Aya) is a researcher of Wahana Riset Indonesia program at WRI Indonesia.

«Until now, a lack of information and monitoring has been a major impediment to understanding the extent and impacts of «dead zones» and eutrophication in coastal ecosystems,» said Mindy Selman, senior water quality analyst at WRI, in a press release.

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.

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

She will resume her role at WRI in October 2018.

At WRI, Taryn focuses on long - term (2050) climate strategies and Nationally Determined Contributions.

Chirag is Senior Manager and leads climate mitigation at WRI India.

Light at WRI says it would take a «huge acceleration in construction» for nuclear power plants to meaningfully contribute to India's power supply by 2030.

In a previous position at WRI, Deborah was the Project Coordinator and Research Analyst for the Climate Briefing Service within the Climate Program at WRI.

Deborah is the Research Analyst for the Business Center at WRI.

And it is well known that the Shell Foundation (Shell International, based in London) enabled me to found EMBARQ at WRI in Washington DC.

A key model for successful community engagement is the Otway Project in Nirranda, Victoria, Australia, said Francisco Almendra, an associate at WRI.

«This isn't a cookbook,» said Sarah Forbes, an analyst at WRI at a panel yesterday announcing the report.

At WRI, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank, her group specialized on issues of environment, development, and human health.

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».

Before joining the Food Program, Brian previously worked at WRI on the 2010 - 2011 edition of the World Resources Report, titled Decision Making in a Changing Climate.

Her role at WRI is to help drive the various initiatives that are required around the world to achieve this goal.

Not exact matches

Brian Lipinski is a research associate with the Food Program at the World Resources Institute (WRI).

A new WRI study, in fact, finds that the bank does not put climate change at the center of its work.

There, high - roller customers can choose which live fish they want prepared on the spot for their dinner at a cost of up to $ 300 per plate in what the non-profit World Resources Institute (WRI) calls «an essential status symbol for major celebrations and business occasions.»

Indonesia may be «simply running out of forest» At the same time, the new analysis showed some encouraging data for the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia — the nation's annual tree average cover loss reached its lowest point recorded since 2003, WRI found, at 3.9 million acreAt the same time, the new analysis showed some encouraging data for the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia — the nation's annual tree average cover loss reached its lowest point recorded since 2003, WRI found, at 3.9 million acreat 3.9 million acres.

WRI estimates that some 20 percent of the live fish for sale at markets across Southeast Asia are caught using cyanide.

The nations had the top two highest annual average tree cover losses in the world between 2011 and 2013, WRI data show, at an estimated 10.7 million acres in Russia and 6.1 million acres in Canada.

Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.

«The WRI commentary is correct,» says Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra who is also executive director of the Global Carbon Project, which tracks greenhouse gas pollution.

Over the period of 2000 - 2012, WRI found that deforestation on indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon took place at a rate of only 0.6 percent annually.

Authored by Cynthia Cummis, Director of Private Sector Climate Mitigation, WRI Country negotiators are in the spotlight at UN climate negotiations in Bonn.

Prior to joining WRI, Niranjali directed the Climate & Energy Program at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).

WRI and Climate Analytics prepared an informal summary under their shared responsibility and it should not be taken to reflect the official positions of any government or institution present at the meeting, or of any organization that provided financial support.

At a minimum, Carbonzero provides ISO - based offsets which meet the WRI / WBCSD GHG Protocol for Project Accounting.

World Resources Institute Climate WRI engages businesses, policymakers, and civil society at the local, national, and international levels to advance transformative solutions that mitigate climate change and help communities adapt to its impacts.

Announced at the Climate Action Summit in Washington D.C. on May 5, the coalition is a collaboration between the NCE, the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group.

Director for Sustainability Kamel Ben Naceur shared this and other findings at a recent WRI event.

At COP20 there were a number of impressive initiatives launched, including the 20x20 initiative by World Resources Institute (WRI).

He conducts research in support of WRI's initiative on GHG accounting methodologies and data sources to help quantify emissions at the state and city level.

March 29 at 10:00 am EDT In this one - hour webinar, Nate Aden from WRI presented pathways for reducing industrial subsectors» GHG emissions to a level commensurate with limiting average warming in this century to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Even without putting climate change into the mix, recent extinction has proceeded at least 3 - 80 times above long - term background rates (Barnosky et al., 2011) and possibly much more (Pimm and Brooks, 1997; Pimm et al., 1995; WRI, 2005), 17 primarily from human - caused habitat destruction and overexploitation of species.

These targets have been reviewed and approved by experts at the Science Based Targets initiative — a partnership between CDP, the UN Global Compact, WRI and WWF.

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.

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.

Previous research by WRI and others suggests that further reductions are possible with current technology and at little to no cost to industry.

If you've ever wished you could visualize all global emissions at once, WRI has just the tool, built from CAIT data.

WRI also created a similar interactive graphic that looks at global emissions.

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.

WRI is honoring Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, and Feike Sijbesma, CEO of Royal DSM, at its 2017 Courage to Lead dinner, an event recognizing bold leadership that confronts pressing environment and human development challenges.

At an event on October 7, WRI will launch a new report, Climate Benefits, Tenure Costs: The Economic Case for Securing Indigenous Land Rights, which finds for the first time that relatively modest investments in secure land tenure for Indigenous Peoples can generate billions of dollars in returns — economically and environmentally.

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.