WRI Europe’s Five-Year Strategy (2023-2027)

WRI Europe's 2023-2027 strategy focuses on transforming the food, land, water, energy, and city systems to achieve interconnected goals for people, nature, and climate. The strategy emphasizes Europe's role as a driver, consumer, and partner for change, specifically supporting the implementation of the EU Green Deal and managing the impacts of the energy transition, such as the demand for rare minerals. WRI Europe aims to act as an enabling office for focus countries with large emerging economies while addressing Europe's own environmental footprint through data-driven solutions and partnerships like the Systems Transformation Hub in Brussels.

• WRI Europe identifies three primary human systems that must be transformed to address inequality, ecosystem destruction, and climate change: the energy system, the cities system, and the food, land, and water system.
• The strategy highlights that Europe's renewable energy transition has created a critical need for rare minerals and metals, necessitating a focus on responsible sourcing, circularity, and resource efficiency to mitigate social and environmental consequences.
• WRI Europe intends to support the implementation of EU Green Deal directives in developing economies, specifically citing the EU Deforestation Law as a tool to decouple EU commodity consumption from deforestation in producing countries while ensuring fairness for local communities.
• The organization has established the Systems Transformation Hub in Brussels, launched in January 2024, to integrate systems change thinking into EU policy making, using examples such as the interconnected nature of electric vehicle shifts with public transport, housing, and public health.
• WRI prioritizes support for transitions in specific focus countries and regions with large emerging economies and significant carbon footprints, including Brazil, China, Colombia, DRC, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Rwanda, and the United States, alongside Europe.

APA

World Resources Institute (2023). WRI Europe’s Five-Year Strategy (2023-2027). https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2024-05/wri-europe-in-brief-2023-27.pdf

Chicago

World Resources Institute. WRI Europe’s Five-Year Strategy (2023-2027). 2023. https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2024-05/wri-europe-in-brief-2023-27.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitute2023wri, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{WRI Europe’s Five-Year Strategy (2023-2027)}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, year = {2023}, url = {https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2024-05/wri-europe-in-brief-2023-27.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }