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This technical note outlines a methodology for assessing whether and how much Parties to the Paris Agreement have enhanced their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) regarding greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation by comparing emissions targets between previous and subsequent NDCs.

This research paper describes the methodology behind two data products developed by the World Resources Institute, the World Cocoa Foundation, and Climate Focus to address deforestation in the cocoa sectors of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana: the West Africa Cocoa Dataset and the Cocoa Deforestation Risk Assessment.

This fact sheet describes the methodology and assumptions used to estimate the average annual greenhouse gas (GHG) decarbonization rates from 2020 to 2030 for Canada, the EU-28, Japan, and the United States, based on their pre-2020 pledges and Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs).

This research paper introduces the 'Forest Footprint for Cities' methodology, designed to quantify the impact of urban consumption on tropical and subtropical deforestation and the resulting CO2 emissions occurring outside city boundaries.

This technical note describes the sources and methodologies used by the World Resources Institute to compile the Climate Watch Country Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data, which provides comparable emissions data for 193 countries and the European Union.

This technical note describes the methodology for a World Resources Institute (WRI) dataset tracking electric school bus (ESB) adoption across the United States, including commitment levels, bus details, and school district socio-economic data.

This guidebook, produced by the World Resources Institute and partners, provides a standardized, geospatially based methodology for companies to estimate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from deforestation and land occupation driven by agricultural expansion. It aims to reduce the inconsistencies in corporate reporting that arise from the flexibility of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Land Sector and Removals Guidance (LSRG).

This technical note describes the methodology of a model developed by the World Resources Institute and the Compact of Mayors to estimate the collective greenhouse gas emission trajectories and impacts of participating cities.

This technical paper describes the methodology and updates for Version 2.0 of the Spatial Database of Planted Trees (SDPT), which aims to distinguish planted forests and tree crops from natural and seminatural forests globally to improve timber legality screening and carbon sequestration mapping.

This technical note describes the development of the China-specific baseline water stress indicator (BWS-China) by the World Resources Institute (WRI). BWS-China integrates prefecture-level water withdrawal data for over 300 cities into the Aqueduct global baseline water stress indicator to provide more granular and geographically specific results than aggregated country-level statistics.

This research paper introduces a globally scalable, open-source framework designed to help cities map and quantify the potential for heat-resilient infrastructure. The framework utilizes a new high-resolution urban land-cover dataset called OpenUrban to generate implementation scenarios for passive cooling interventions such as trees, cool roofs, reflective pavements, and shade structures.

This guide details the greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory methodology used by the World Resources Institute (WRI), covering the reporting period from Fiscal Year 2010 to 2021. It outlines the organizational boundaries, operational scopes, and specific calculation methods for direct and indirect emissions in accordance with the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standards.

This technical note describes the World Resources Institute's (WRI) Climate Finance Calculator, a tool designed to determine countries' international climate finance contributions based on their economic capacity to pay and their emissions-based climate responsibility.

A guide by the World Resources Institute providing a five-step methodology for civil society organizations (CSOs) to track climate change adaptation finance flows to improve accountability and inform advocacy.

The Climate Policy Implementation Tracking Framework is a policy tool developed by the World Resources Institute to help analysts, advocates, and policymakers track the adoption and implementation of climate mitigation policies from inception to impact.

This technical note describes the methodology used by the World Resources Institute (WRI) to identify 'Cool Food Meals' on food provider menus, focusing on greenhouse gas emission thresholds and nutritional quality safeguards.

This technical note describes the methodology used to estimate annual electricity generation for power plants within the Global Power Plant Database, utilizing a combination of statistical regression and machine learning.

This guide details the methodology and data sources used by the World Resources Institute (WRI) to create the Atlas of Forest Landscape Restoration Opportunity. The atlas identifies global areas of forest loss and evaluates the feasibility of restoration by contrasting potential forest coverage with current coverage and human pressure.

This report introduces the U.S. Public Sector Protocol, a tailored interpretation of the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard designed to help government organizations in the United States quantify and report greenhouse gas emissions.

This report introduces a dynamic land-use model methodology developed in 1988 to quantitatively test and compare the carbon-offset and sequestration potentials of various sustainable forestry and land-use projects in developing countries.