Projects
| Title | Summary |
|---|---|
| Biofuels Production and Policy: Implications for Climate Change, Water Quality, and Agriculture | Biofuels have huge potential for renewable energy development. This project assesses the impact of biofuel production on the environment and agricultural structure, and how policy influences feedstock production, technology change and the environment. |
| Coral Reefs | Pioneering efforts to quantify the risks posed to reefs and the value they provide to people and nature. |
| EarthTrends: Environmental Information | EarthTrends influences policy and research with a comprehensive on-line collection of data and analysis about the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world. |
| Economic Valuation of Coral Reefs in the Caribbean | Supporting the sustainable management of coral reefs and mangroves by quantifying their economic value. |
| Ecosystem Services Approach for the Public Sector | The goal of this project is to change how decision makers think about ecosystem services: from protecting ecosystems from development to investing in ecosystems for development. |
| Ecosystem Services Review | The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review (ESR) is a structured methodology for corporate managers to proactively develop strategies for managing business risks and opportunities arising from their company’s dependence and impact on ecosystems. |
| Global Forest Watch (GFW) | Global Forest Watch seeks to catalyze changes in forest use to meet human needs and better protect forest ecosystems. |
| Global Poverty Map and Databases of Human Wellbeing and Poverty | Engage experts and policymakers in a dialogue on the need for and use of poverty maps, allowing visualization of the incidence and magnitude of poverty across space linking poverty to environmental issues. Increase supply of spatial indicators of poverty. |
| Landscape Impact Assessment of Oil and Gas Industry in Russia | WRI and its partner environmental NGOs in Russia have begun the development of a methodology to assess the terrestrial footprint of the oil and gas industry on the Russian landscape. |
| Market Access and Institutional Choice: Decentralization of Natural Resources | Promoting representative local government as a tool to improve environmental justice, reduce poverty, raise the efficiency and equity of decision-making, and increase rural community and local government access to natural resource commodity chains. |
| Performance-Based Incentives for Improving Environmental Quality (NutrientNet) | Encourage the development of environmental markets, such as nutrient trading, to provide cost-effective solutions for improving environmental quality. |
| Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems (PAGE) | The Pilot analysis of global ecosystems (PAGE) provides a “big picture” view of ecosystems using indicators and maps at global and continental scales. |
| Post Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: From Assessment to Action (MA) | The MA was a four-year international effort to assess the conditions and trends of the world's ecosystems and the links to human well-being. This project will broadly disseminate the MA findings and seek to translate them into action. |
| Poverty and Ecosystem Services in East Africa | Increase effectiveness of poverty reduction efforts through spatial analysis of ecosystem services. Policymakers will understand and act on linkages between poverty and ecosystem services and improve implementation of national strategies and plans. |
| Poverty, Environment, and Distributional Equity | Promoting government allocation and distribution policies for revenues from ecosystem goods/services that increase benefits to poor peoples and promote social equity and environmental justice (fair distributions of environmental costs and benefits). |
| Reefs at Risk - Analysis of Threats to Coral Reefs | Raising awareness of threats to coral reefs and providing information and tools to manage coastal habitats more effectively. |
| Reefs at Risk in Belize | Seeks to improve access to information on coral reefs in Belize in support of better management of coastal resources. |
| Reefs at Risk in Southeast Asia | Raising awareness about human pressure on coral reefs in Southeast Asia and providing resource managers with specific information and tools to manage coastal habitats more effectively. |
| Reefs at Risk in the Caribbean | Improving coastal resource management and coral reef protection by providing comprehensive information on threats to coral reefs, value of the goods and services provided by these ecosystems, and economic losses that will result from their degradation. |
| Water Quality: Eutrophication and Hypoxia | This project’s goal is to reverse the impacts of aquatic eutrophication by assessing its global extent, identifying its causes, and providing policy strategies and solutions. |
