Sentences with phrase «for wri»

Kelly has conducted an annual review of climate change science for WRI since 2005.

Kevin Kurkul is the Data Lead for Climate Action & Data for WRI United States.

He supports drafting and coordination for WRI's Global Protocol for Community - scale Greenhouse Gas...

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The WRI also faults the NERA report for assuming a low rate of clean - energy innovation.

For Renewable Energy Investments, avoided greenhouse gas emissions were estimated using the approach outlined in the WRI GHG Protocol's Project Protocol.

The Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities were developed in 2017 by Robin Chase, Zipcar co-Founder, and a consortium of leading city and transport organizations including: the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustainability, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Natural Resources Defense Council, Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT), Transportation for America (T4America), Rocky Mountain Institute, Shared - Use Mobility Center, and WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.

After evaluating cost and benefit data for 1,200 business sites across 700 companies in 17 countries, researchers from WRI and WRAP found that nearly every company had a positive return on their investments to curb food loss and waste in operations.

By Liz Goodwin, WRI We are all interested in seeing value for money — whether we are individuals, businesses or government.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) and a large group of stakeholders has developed and will release an accounting and reporting standard for quantifying food and associated inedible parts removed from the food supply chain on June 6, 2016.

WRI's new Food Loss & Waste director Liz Goodwin suggests three key steps — setting strong targets, measuring for management, and concrete, replicable action — for 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.

«This report, which WRAP co-authored with WRI, demonstrates the compelling economic case for reducing food waste in hotels.

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 acres.

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

«Despite the fact that cyanide fishing is nominally illegal in virtually all Indo - Pacific countries, the high premium paid for live reef fish, weak enforcement capacities, and frequent corruption have spread the use of the poison across the entire region — home o the vast majority of the planet's coral reefs,» reports WRI.

«I think this is the first attempt to try to do this for much of the world,» says WRI forest scientist Anthony Janetos.

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.

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

«This is old news,» says Ranping Song, an official with the Global Climate Program of the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington, D.C. Song says that last February, the National Bureau of Statistics of China released preliminary revised estimates of coal consumption for 2013 and 2014 along with indications that data for prior years might also be low.

Prior to joining WRI, Ranping was the China Campaign Manager for The Climate Group in Beijing.

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Caterpillar Foundation awards $ 12.5 M grant to World Resources Institute (WRI) for sustainable cities initiative; focus on key urban centers in China, India and Brazil

When I started EMBARQ, the WRI Center for Sustainable Transport (/ / www.embarq.org) I was besieged by emails about snake - oil cures for engine emissions and poor fuel economy.

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).

Mengpin is the Research Assistant with WRI's Global Climate Program, where she provides analytical and technical support for the Open Climate Network (OCN) and CAIT 2.0 projects.

The final outcome also reflected WRI's longstanding work on rules for clear accounting of mitigation targets, policies, and results.

New WRI research provides a to - do list for negotiators.

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

WRI informed and helped drive support for a global agreement on climate change through research, partnerships, and communications.

WRI's new Paris Agreement Tracker monitors countries» progress toward joining the Agreement, and allows users to create, share and embed their own combinations for bringing it into force.

WRI led the Agreement for Climate Transformation (ACT 2015) consortium, engaging with experts in more than 20 countries to craft a blueprint for a strong, universal agreement.

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

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.

WRI experts also contributed to ongoing communications and media engagement on the talks and countries» commitments, helping inform public opinion and build political will for a strong agreement.

Last week the World Resources Institute (WRI) published a collection of policy options readily available to the President without the need to win over a hostile congress or to wait for technological advances.

Listen to the recording of WRI's press call on «China's Leadership Transition and Implications for Energy and Climate.

WRI's four - point plan outlines a way for the administration to meet its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

WRI propose an increase of 0.5 % a year from 2015 for those states without a target and a 1 % annual increase for those with an RPS in place.

WRI responds to a critique of its working paper, Avoiding Bioenergy Competition for Food Crops and Land.

The SBTi is a collaboration between CDP, World Resources Institute (WRI), the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) and the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC).

This idea was the basis for a new WRI Issue Brief, Clean Energy Access in Developing Countries: Perspectives on Policy and Regulation.

«We keep hearing that deforestation is responsible for 10 or 15 percent of global emissions,» says WRI's Fred Stolle, who co-authored the piece.

Mengpin is a Research Analyst with WRI's Global Climate Program, where she provides analytical and technical support for the Open Climate Network (OCN) and CAIT 2.0 projects.

Prior to joining WRI she worked for the Economic and Social Research Institute in Ireland, where she interacted with policy makers, companies and regulators and authored academic papers and policy reports.

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

Initiative Overview and proposal for New Chemicals Sector Target - Setting Methods: Nate Aden (WRI) and Pedro Faria (CDP), March 2017.

Launch of Apparel, Textiles, and Footwear Sector Guidance for Setting Science - based Targets: presentation by Nate Aden, Cynthia Cummis, Jim Goddard and Kevin Moss, WRI

WRI works across its international offices and with key stakeholders around the world to ensure that national and international action plans for the Paris Agreement are robust, ambitious and transparent.

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.