Sentences with phrase «in wri»

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

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

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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.

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.

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.

The Food Loss & Waste Protocol's Accounting and Reporting Standard, coordinated by WRI and developed with a suite of partners, is set to launch in June 2016.

Scale is a key component of this venture — Moringa's efforts are part of Nicaragua's 2.7 million hectare contribution to the Initiative 20 × 20, sponsored by World Resource Institute (WRI), whose objective is to restore 20 million hectares of forests in Latin America.

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.

WRI helps emerging mission - driven companies grow and prosper in the natural foods, outdoor and bicycle industries.

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

Here are highlights of WRI's participation in Climate Week.

Austin previously worked with WRI's Forest Legality Initiative to combat illegal and / or destructive logging in the guitar industry.

«The report we co-authored with WRI shows we are moving in the right direction, but we need to build momentum quickly.

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

World Resources Institute WRI is a global research organization that spans more than 50 countries, with offices in the United States, China, India, Brazil, and more.

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

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.»

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.»

WRI's data only extended to 2013, but last summer, millions more acres of forest burned in northern Canada amid a record - breaking heat wave (ClimateWire, July 16, 2014).

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The network, launched by the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington, D.C., and dozens of partners, is intended to be objective and neutral.

«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.

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.

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.

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

«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.

The promises were analysed by the World Resources Institute (WRI), an environmental think tank in Washington DC (see map).

«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.

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.

WRI's Global Forest Watch initiative uses the most advanced satellite data and crowd - sourced information to track deforestation throughout the world in near - real - time.

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

The Peephole & the Platform: The Water Rerouting Initiative Series (WRI) Adam Frelin «s public interventions are quick, spontaneous projects executed in public setting, photographed and left running.

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

If you're interested in more details of what that could look like, check out this article by Dr. Nirarta Samadhi, director of WRI Indonesia.

Drawing on expertise from across WRI, the Institute provided specific guidance to inform the path - breaking Paris Agreement, which involves all countries in reducing emissions and in increasing resilience, especially of the world's most vulnerable people.

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

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.

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 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's response highlights questionable assumptions in Dr. Thorning's modeling and outlines the benefits of industrial sector energy efficiency improvements.