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This fact sheet describes the Standing Together for Environmental Defenders (STAND) initiative, a collaboration between the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Alliance for Land, Indigenous, and Environmental Defenders (ALLIED) designed to support grassroots environmental defenders facing security risks and systemic barriers.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) filed a Form 990 for the tax year beginning October 1, 2020, and ending September 30, 2021. The organization operates as a 501(c)(3) public charity focused on global environmental challenges, including climate, food, forests, water, ocean, cities, and energy. For the reported period, WRI recorded total revenue of $289,669,226 and total expenses of $151,998,641, ending the year with net assets of $402,845,763.

The Science, Technology, Policy (STeP) Fellowship Program is an initiative by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) designed to integrate scientific expertise into government policy-making across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The program targets early to mid-career scientists, particularly postdoctoral candidates, to provide them with practical experience in science advisement while strengthening the institutional capacity of government agencies to address global change challenges.

This briefing outlines the World Resources Institute's (WRI) Water Program in Ethiopia, which focuses on managing water risks, promoting nature-based solutions for watershed health, and increasing urban water resilience to support the country's development goals.

The WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities is a program of the World Resources Institute that works to transform urban areas into resilient, inclusive, and low-carbon environments. With a team of over 350 experts, the center focuses primarily on the global south, employing an integrated approach across land use, mobility, and energy efficiency to influence cities in over 75 countries.

The Zero Carbon Building Accelerator, led by the World Resources Institute (WRI), is a program designed to help national and subnational governments eliminate building sector CO2 emissions to achieve a zero-carbon global building stock by 2050.