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

WRI Europe's 2023-2027 strategy focuses on achieving systemic change across food, energy, and city systems to benefit people, nature, and climate. The plan emphasizes the implementation of the EU Green Deal, the establishment of the Systems Transformation Hub in Brussels, and a coordinated effort to support low-carbon transitions in focus countries including Brazil, China, India, and Indonesia.

• WRI Europe's 2023-2027 strategy focuses on three interconnected goals: improving human wellbeing, protecting nature, and tackling climate change. The strategy aims to foster economic opportunities and meet essential needs while restoring nature and sharply declining global emissions.
• To achieve systemic change, WRI targets the transformation of three primary human systems: the energy system, the cities system, and the food, land, and water system. This requires simultaneous revolution of "enabling systems"—governance, finance, and economics—which currently incentivize incorrect behaviors.
• WRI Europe defines three specific roles for Europe in the global transition: as a driver for change (using its own goals and approaches to exemplify the transition), as a consumer (reforming policies and consumption to align with planetary boundaries), and as a partner for change (working with donors and knowledge partners to advance funding and climate strategies).
• The strategy emphasizes the implementation of the EU Green Deal, specifically highlighting the need to ensure that regulations like the EU Deforestation Law—which aims to decouple EU commodity consumption from deforestation—remain fair to communities in developing economies.
• WRI Europe has launched the Systems Transformation Hub in Brussels as of January 2024. This collaborative partnership is designed to integrate systems change thinking into EU policy making, such as coordinating the transition to electric vehicles with public transport, housing planning, and public health.

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} }