May 18, 2012
At WRI, we like to say that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” For managing and mitigating climate change, one of the most fundamental measurements is a periodic inventory of the problem’s root cause: greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from…
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At an official side event to the UNFCCC Bonn Climate Change Conference this week, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), ICLEI– Local Governments for…
May 17, 2012
How much fast-start climate finance is actually flowing, and where is it being spent?[^1] This question has come up repeatedly alongside the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate talks in Bonn this…
May 15, 2012
This post was written with Heleen de Coninck, Programme Manager at the Energy Research Center of the Netherlands. It was originally published on the…
May 14, 2012
May 3, 2012
Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), developed countries have pledged to provide “fast-start” finance…
April 3, 2012
This piece originally appeared in the National Journal Energy and Environment Experts Blog.
EPA’s newly…
April 2, 2012
In recent years, several developing countries, with support from donor agencies, have begun to seriously consider Low Emissions Development Strategies (LEDS), country-driven plans that enable the transition to a low-carbon…
March 12, 2012
This piece was written with Richard Lavin, President, Caterpillar Group. It originally appeared in China Daily…
March 9, 2012
VERGE DC Panel on Sustainable Cities Features Manish Bapna
On Wednesday, March 14, WRI’s Interim President, Manish Bapna, will be participating in a keynote panel discussion at the VERGE DC conference in Washington, D.C. hosted by Greenbiz. The panel discussion, Cities as a Catalyst for Sustainability, will focus on...