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The World Resources Report (WRR) is being developed around seven working papers focusing on urban issues in the global south, specifically targeting the needs of the lower half of the income distribution to achieve economic prosperity, environmental sustainability, and social equity. The report's framing emphasizes preventing "unsustainable urban lock-in" and addressing the "urbanization of poverty." Key thematic areas include urban expansion, affordable shelter, urban energy services, regional water risk, and sustainable transportation, with a proposed "40:40:40 strategy" for transport mode split by 2040. The project involves a core team and lead authors conducting literature reviews and stakeholder engagement, with planned city-level case studies in Medellín, Surat, and a city in Africa.

The Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) for the 'Improving Stewardship and Sustainable Livelihoods' project in Belize outlines a strategy to involve coastal communities, fisher associations, and government entities in climate adaptation. The project aims to benefit approximately 10,646 people, including 3,434 artisanal fishers, by strengthening the adaptive capacity of fisher associations, promoting climate-smart livelihoods, and improving knowledge management. The plan emphasizes gender-responsive approaches to ensure the participation of women and youth, and it establishes a multi-tiered grievance redress mechanism involving the project level, WWF US, and the GEF. Implementation is coordinated through a Project Management Unit (PMU) within a Conservation Trust Fund and aligns with the broader 'Resilient Bold Belize' Project Finance for Permanence initiative.

South Africa is developing its third National Biodiversity Strategic Action Plan (NBSAP) for 2025-2035. The briefing proposes a target of adding 16 million hectares to protected and conserved areas to reach a total of 36.6 million hectares (30% of land surface) by 2035. This proposal is based on a 'whole-of-society' model involving government, private sector, and NGOs, with 13.6 million hectares already identified through secured and planned funding totaling R5.4 billion.

WWF South Africa aims to transition from a conservation model that separated people from protected areas to one where local communities are primary custodians of 'Mega Living Landscapes' (MLLs) and Strategic Water Source Areas (SWSAs). The strategy focuses on four priority geographic areas: Zululand/Mpumalanga, Arid Zone/Northern Cape, and the Cape Floristic Region. To achieve this, WWF proposes four pathways: scaling up biodiversity stewardship and protection (including OECMs), enhancing community livelihoods through consolidated value offerings, driving an economic transition, and mobilising new scales of public and private finance.

WWF South Africa's Strategy 2030 aims to unlock an economic transition that decouples human development from harmful environmental impacts. The strategy focuses on three entry points—climate and energy, food and fibre, and water—and employs three pathways: influencing policy and governance, reshaping market practices in sectors like retail and forestry, and aligning financial policy with net-zero and nature-related disclosures.

WWF South Africa aims to address a significant biodiversity finance gap through three pathways: scaling up land and seascape finance mechanisms, increasing private investment in bankable nature solutions, and improving financial inclusion for small, medium and micro-enterprises (SMMEs) and local community enterprises.

WWF South Africa aims to achieve water security by protecting strategic water source areas, which comprise 10% of the land surface but provide 50% of river and dam inflow. The strategy focuses on strengthening water governance, promoting water stewardship, and establishing community-public-private partnerships at the catchment level to address threats from agriculture, forestry, mining, and invasive alien species.