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A joint study by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and World Resources Institute analyzing the condition of global agroecosystems, finding that food production growth has occurred at the expense of biodiversity, water quality, carbon storage, and soil health.

These conference proceedings summarize findings from over 50 listening sessions conducted between March and October 2020 to inform the Two Degree Initiative, a CGIAR flagship effort aimed at helping 200 million small-scale agricultural producers globally adapt to climate change.

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 research paper by the World Resources Institute examines the institutional architecture for capacity building under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It argues that current efforts are too ad hoc and project-based, leaving developing countries with significant gaps in long-term organizational and institutional capacity. The authors propose that the post-2020 climate regime (specifically the Paris Agreement) should establish a formal 'capacity-building mechanism' and a long-term objective to ensure coherence, coordination, and sustained delivery of climate action capabilities.

A fact sheet from the World Resources Institute detailing global CO2 emissions growth between 2000 and 2005, highlighting disparities in growth rates across different sectors and between developed and developing countries.

This research paper by the World Resources Institute assesses current ecosystem services indicators to determine their effectiveness in informing policy-makers. The analysis identifies significant limitations in how these indicators convey information, their comprehensiveness, and the availability of supporting data, noting that regulating and cultural services are particularly underserved compared to provisioning services.

A pilot analysis of global freshwater systems indicating that human activities have severely degraded these ecosystems, threatening their ability to support life and disrupting global biogeochemical cycles.

This research paper estimates that annual global transport infrastructure investment needs are $2 trillion for a 2°C scenario and $2.3 trillion for a 4°C scenario. It concludes that a low-carbon pathway is more affordable and financially feasible within current annual investment flows of $1.4 to $2.1 trillion, provided that national policymakers and development banks shift investment portfolios toward sustainable options.

The World Resources Institute report examines the reciprocal relationship between water and energy supplies, highlighting how water scarcity threatens energy production and how energy-intensive water treatment is required to meet growing water demands.

This technical note introduces Aqueduct 4.0, a water risk framework by the World Resources Institute (WRI) that translates complex hydrological data into 13 indicators of global water risk. The framework utilizes the PCR-GLOBWB 2 model to analyze current conditions and project future water supply and demand across various climate scenarios for 2030, 2050, and 2080.

This research paper by the World Resources Institute examines methods to improve the implementation of the Paris Agreement by analyzing 30 years of experience under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol.

This research paper by the World Resources Institute attempts to quantify and distinguish between public and private capital investment in global transport to help shift funding toward sustainable, low-carbon systems.

This report, a collaboration between the World Resources Institute and the Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets, analyzes the policy and market structures necessary to deploy low-carbon technologies to mitigate climate change. It utilizes a "wedges" framework to examine the interaction between technology, investment, and policy to stabilize global emissions.

This guide by the World Resources Institute provides technical and process-related instructions for countries preparing their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) for the post-2020 period, following requests from countries during Regional Technical Dialogues convened by the UNDP and UNFCCC in 2014-2015.

This guide explains how to use the World Resources Institute's Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas to analyze global water risk. It details methods for adding locations (map, address, or file import), selecting risk indicators (including CMIP6-based future scenarios for 2030, 2050, and 2080), and exporting the resulting data in CSV or GPKG formats.

This research paper analyzes the global integration of the solar photovoltaic (PV) sector, examining growth patterns, cost structures, trade, investment, and employment. It argues that maintaining open global markets and providing predictable long-term support are essential for accelerating deployment and reducing costs, while cautioning against protectionist policies intended to create domestic jobs.

This research paper from the World Resources Institute proposes a framework to limit new cropland expansion to lands with "low environmental opportunity costs" to avoid the conversion of natural ecosystems. It defines specific biophysical and non-biophysical criteria for identifying such lands and suggests a three-part policy approach to direct expansion away from high-impact areas.

This fact sheet from the World Resources Institute outlines seven enabling principles for achieving water security and climate-resilient development, based on the IPCC Working Group II 2022 report, and introduces the Adaptation Action Coalition (AAC).

This project document outlines a global initiative titled "Strengthening the Blue Economy: the Economic Case, Science-Informed Policy, and Transparency," executed by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The project aims to transition governments and businesses toward a sustainable ocean economy by developing a landmark High Level Panel (HLP) report, producing six thematic "Blue Papers," and creating a beta version of an online monitoring system called "Ocean Watch."