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This September 2020 report by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) provides practical guidance for organizations to track, report, and reduce business air travel emissions. Based on the TR2AIL project, which involved interviews at SEI and the University of East Anglia, the document outlines strategies for setting emissions targets, implementing decision-support tools, and fostering an organizational culture that prioritizes lower-carbon travel alternatives.

This guide, published by the Stockholm Environment Institute in June 2013, provides a step-by-step methodology for using the weADAPT platform and the Climate Information Portal (CIP) to access and apply climate data for adaptation planning and policy-making. It emphasizes that adaptation is a socio-institutional learning process rather than a purely technical exercise. The document includes a detailed case study in the Philippi suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, to demonstrate how historical data and future projections (using RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 scenarios) can inform land-use decisions, specifically regarding the tension between maintaining vegetable production and developing low-cost housing.

This working paper assesses Germany's Fast-Start Finance (FSF) contributions for the 2010-2012 period, analyzing the distribution of funds, the definition of additionality, and the transparency of reporting. It finds that Germany exceeded its self-defined pledge, providing EUR 1.29 billion, with a primary focus on mitigation and a significant reliance on multilateral channels and EU ETS auctioning revenues.

This report advocates for repurposing global agricultural subsidies—which grew from $325 billion in 2000 to $619 billion—into land restoration efforts. It highlights that low-carbon techniques like agroforestry can return $7-30 per $1 invested, helping to mitigate the fact that agriculture and land use cause up to 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions and threatening the ability to feed 10 billion people by 2050.

This research paper analyzes the electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem in Kenya, identifying barriers to adoption and comparing national efforts with international strategies to accelerate road transport electrification.

This report by the World Resources Institute examines Concentrating Solar Thermal power (CST) as a large-scale, zero-carbon alternative to coal-fired power generation. It highlights the role of thermal storage in providing baseload power and discusses the policy and economic barriers—such as high upfront capital costs and the need for carbon pricing—that must be addressed to accelerate global deployment, particularly in rapidly developing economies.

This report provides a pilot analysis of global grassland ecosystems, evaluating their condition based on the capacity to provide essential goods and services. While current goods and services are rated as good to fair, the report warns of a decline in the overall capacity of these ecosystems to sustain human, plant, and animal life due to degradation, urbanization, and biodiversity loss.

This World Resources Institute working paper analyzes ninety-three intergovernmental climate change mitigation initiatives, finding that while overall participation seems broad, representation from the Global South is critically low in key sectors. The landscape is dominated by developed countries and the top ten emitters per sector, which limits the Global South's access to capacity-building and information sharing.

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 working paper by the World Resources Institute provides a global progress update on 2,900 voluntary ocean action commitments and financial pledges from the Our Ocean Conference, focusing on the 2025–2026 period to improve accountability and transparency.

This working paper by the World Resources Institute examines the financing challenges and strategic importance of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) demonstration projects in developing countries, offering recommendations to international policymakers to facilitate a transition to low-carbon economies.

This report assesses the technical potential for renewable energy (RE) integration within 159 China's overseas industrial parks (COIPs) as of 2022, focusing on rooftop PV, agrivoltaics, and wind power.

This working paper identifies components of smart renewable energy policy for developing countries, which are expected to provide 80% of new global electric generation capacity over the next two decades. It argues that to meet the IEA's '450 scenario', non-OECD nations must increase renewable electricity generation to 46% by 2035. The authors advocate for international donors to move from project-based support to systemic environment-building and define 'smart' policy as cost-effective, transparent, and investment-friendly.

This briefing from the World Resources Institute outlines a project lifecycle approach to electrifying healthcare facilities in low- and middle-income countries, advocating for decentralized renewable energy (DRE) over costly and polluting diesel generators.

This document is a Form 990 'Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax' for the World Resources Institute (WRI) for the tax year beginning October 1, 2002, and ending September 30, 2003. It details the organization's financial status, including total revenue of $47,908,366 and total expenses of $49,691,442, as well as its programmatic goals and expenditures across various environmental initiatives.

This document is the 2003 IRS Form 990 return for the World Resources Institute (WRI), a 501(c)(3) environmental think tank. It details the organization's financial status, governance, and program activities for the tax year beginning October 1, 2003, and ending September 30, 2004.

This document is the 2004 IRS Form 990 tax return for the World Resources Institute (WRI), an environmental think tank. It details the organization's financial status, including total revenue of $18,646,375 and total expenses of $20,108,387 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005. The return outlines WRI's program service accomplishments across eight thematic areas, its governance structure, and its asset holdings, including $39,503,429 in securities.

A World Resources Institute fact sheet presenting a map of historic carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion between 1900 and 1999, categorized by industrialized and developing regions.

A World Resources Institute fact sheet identifying over two billion hectares of global potential for forest and landscape restoration, primarily in tropical and temperate regions. It distinguishes between wide-scale, mosaic, and remote restoration opportunities and emphasizes a holistic approach that integrates local stakeholders and diverse land uses to improve biodiversity, food security, and climate mitigation.

The WRI Results Framework is a strategic document that maps the organization's goals, intervention targets, and impact indicators across three primary human systems: food, land & water; energy; and cities. It establishes a hierarchy of results from global targets (by 2030) to WRI intervention targets (by 2027) and specific country-level targets, all designed to improve human well-being, protect nature, and tackle climate change.