Policy Plan 2026

The World Resources Institute (WRI) is implementing a 2023-2027 strategy to drive systemic change across three human-centered systems: Cities, Energy, and Food, Land & Water. WRI Europe Stichting serves as the regional representative in Europe, leveraging the region's financial and research hubs to pilot sustainable practices and mobilize funding. The organization utilizes a framework of Global Impact Targets, WRI Impact Targets, and Country-Level Targets to measure success, aligned with the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals. WRI Europe Stichting's financial report for the 2024/2025 period shows a total income of EUR 17,360,351 and a result for the year of EUR 153,834.

• WRI's 2023-2027 strategy focuses on three interconnected human-centered system transitions: Cities, Energy, and Food, Land & Water, supported by enabling systems including Economics, Finance, and Governance.
• The vision for the Energy transition is to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 while providing clean, reliable, and affordable power to all communities, specifically addressing the 700 million people who currently lack electricity access.
• WRI aims to transform the Food, Land & Water system to protect nature and halt climate change, noting that agriculture, deforestation, and land-use change are responsible for 22% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
• WRI identifies that systemic change requires transformations in 5,000 of the world's largest cities to improve quality of life and expand access to basic services, which are currently lacking for one in three urban residents.
• WRI Europe Stichting utilizes European cities such as Copenhagen, Ghent, and Milan to pilot the Coolfood Pledge, with these cities reaching the 2030 emissions-reduction target of 25% in 2023.
• The organization measures success through a hierarchy of targets—Global Impact Targets (by 2030), WRI Impact Targets (by 2027), and Country-Level Targets—which are informed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement.
• For the financial year ending 30 September 2025, WRI Europe Stichting reported total income of EUR 17,360,351 and total expenditure of EUR 17,148,167, resulting in a net result for the year of EUR 153,834.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Policy Plan 2026. https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2026-03/wri-europe-stitching-policy-plan.pdf

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Policy Plan 2026. n.d. https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2026-03/wri-europe-stitching-policy-plan.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendpolicy, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Policy Plan 2026}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2026-03/wri-europe-stitching-policy-plan.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }