World Resources Institute

The mission of the World Resources Institute (WRI) is to “move society to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations”.{{cite news |last1=Steer |first1=Andrew |title=Raising Early Warnings About Climate Change |url=https://www.macfound.org/press/40-years-40-stories/world-resources-institute-raising-early-warnings-about-climate-change |access-date=6 June 2023 |work=MacArthur Foundation |date=October 17, 2018 |language=en}} It seeks to promote a sustainable human society{{cite web |title=World Resources Institute |url=https://www.unccd.int/cbm/world-resources-institute |website=UNCCD |access-date=5 June 2023 |language=en}} with a basis of human health and well-being, environmental sustainability, and economic opportunity.{{cite web|url=https://officesnapshots.com/2016/08/30/world-resources-institute-offices-washington-dc/|title=World Resources Institute Offices – Washington DC|date=30 August 2016|publisher=Office Snapshots|access-date=11 October 2017}} WRI partners with local and national governments, private companies, publicly held corporations, and other non-profits, and offers services including global climate change issues, sustainable markets, ecosystem protection, and environmental responsible governance services.{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/companies/0321382Z:US-world-resources-institute|title=World Resources Institute|author=Bloomberg|date=2017|website=bloomberg.com|access-date=11 October 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/world-resources-institute/284/|title=Charitywatch: World Resources Institute|publisher=American Institute of Philanthropy|access-date=11 October 2017}}

The World Resources Institute maintains international offices in the Brazil, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, the Netherlands, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States and is active in over 50 countries.{{cite web |title=WRI develops practical solutions that improve people's lives and ensure nature can thrive. |url=https://www.wri.org/our-work |website=World Resources Institute |access-date=2 June 2023 |language=en}}

A report by the Center for International Policy's Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative of the top 50 think tanks on the University of Pennsylvania's Global Go-To Think Tanks rating index found that during the period 2014–2018 World Resources Institute received more funding from outside the United States than any other think tank, with a total of more than US$63 million, though this was described as "unsurprising" given the institute's presence in so many countries.{{cite report|last=Freeman|first=Ben|title=Foreign Funding of Think Tanks in America|date=January 2020|publisher = Center for International Policy |page = 11 |url = https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/3ba8a1_4f06e99f35d4485b801f8dbfe33b6a3f.pdf|access-date =2020-09-06|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200901175135/https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/3ba8a1_4f06e99f35d4485b801f8dbfe33b6a3f.pdf|archive-date = 2020-09-01|df = mdy-all}}

In 2014, Stephen M. Ross, an American real estate developer, gave the organization US$30 million to establish the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.{{cite news|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/developer-gives-30-million-to-establish-city-planning-center/|title=Developer Gives $30 Million to Establish City Planning Center|last=Pogrebin|first=Robin|work=New York Times|access-date=6 August 2014}}

WRI's activities are focused on the areas of water (including oceans), forests, climate,{{cite news |last1=Gardner |first1=Timothy |title='Massive gaps' seen in countries' plans to tackle climate change -study |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/massive-gaps-seen-countries-plans-tackle-climate-change-study-2022-10-19/ |work=Reuters |date=19 October 2022 |language=en}}

energy,{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/homes-and-gardens/powering-cities-with-clean-energy/article19692590.ece|title=Powering cities with clean energy|author=M.A. Siraj|date=September 15, 2017|website=Thehindu.com|access-date=9 October 2017}}

food{{cite news |title=Food That's Climate-Friendly, Tasty, Nutritious |url=https://www.csrwire.com/press_releases/772011-food-thats-climate-friendly-tasty-nutritious-and-cool |access-date=6 June 2023 |work=Csrwire |date=April 19, 2023 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Sustainable Hospitality Alliance partners with World Resources Institute to support the Hospitality Industry Tackle Climate Change Through Food |url=https://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4116589.html |work=Hospitality Net |date=25 May 2023 |language=en-us}}

and cities.{{cite news |title=How Barranquilla brought green urban spaces to the people |url=https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/parks-and-green-space/parks-and-green-space/how-barranquilla-brought-green-urban-spaces-to-the-people-8672 |work=Smart Cities World |date=20 Feb 2023 |language=En}}{{cite news |title=Transcript: This is Climate: Sustainable Cities |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2023/04/05/transcript-this-is-climate-sustainable-cities/ |newspaper=Washington Post |date=5 April 2023}}

WRI is active in initiatives for monitoring, data analysis, and risk assessment.

WRI emphasizes the extent to which systems are linked, and the need to connect issues such as addressing food insecurity with strategies to address climate change, protect ecosystems, and provide economic security.{{cite news |title=World Resources Report: Creating a Sustainable Food Future - A Menu of Solutions to Feed Nearly 10 Billion People by 2050, Final Report, July 2019 - World {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/world/world-resources-report-creating-sustainable-food-future-menu-solutions-feed-nearly-10 |work=ReliefWeb Blog |date=17 July 2019 |language=en}}

WRI worked with companies to develop a common standard, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol for quantifying and managing GHG emissions.{{cite journal |last1=Michaelowa |first1=Axel |title=Opportunities for and Alternatives to Global Climate Regimes Post-Kyoto |journal=Annual Review of Environment and Resources |date=4 November 2015 |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=395–417 |doi=10.1146/annurev-environ-102014-021112 |language=en |issn=1543-5938|doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Yetano Roche |first1=María |last2=Lechtenböhmer |first2=Stefan |last3=Fischedick |first3=Manfred |last4=Gröne |first4=Marie-Christine |last5=Xia |first5=Chun |last6=Dienst |first6=Carmen |title=Concepts and Methodologies for Measuring the Sustainability of Cities |journal=Annual Review of Environment and Resources |date=17 October 2014 |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=519–547 |doi=10.1146/annurev-environ-012913-101223 |language=en |issn=1543-5938|doi-access=free }}

WRI tracks estimates of fossil fuel combustion and greenhouse gas emissions, published as biennial reports.{{cite journal |last1=Siddiqi |first1=Toufiq A. |title=Asia-Wide Emissions of Greenhouse Gases |journal=Annual Review of Energy and the Environment |date=November 1995 |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=213–232 |doi=10.1146/annurev.eg.20.110195.001241 |language=en |issn=1056-3466|doi-access=free }}

WRI's Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) was established in 2015 to help companies to set emission reduction targets in line with climate science.{{cite web |author=Novozymes |title=As one of the first companies in the world, Novozymes has had its net-zero target validated by the Science Based Targets initiative |url=https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2022/11/10/2552822/0/en/As-one-of-the-first-companies-in-the-world-Novozymes-has-had-its-net-zero-target-validated-by-the-Science-Based-Targets-initiative.html |website=GlobeNewswire News Room |date=November 10, 2022 |access-date=6 June 2023 |language=en }}{{cite web |title=Set Science-Based Emission Reduction Targets {{!}} UN Global Compact |url=https://www.unglobalcompact.org/take-action/action/science-based-target |website=United Nations Global Compact |access-date=6 June 2023}} The WRI manages the Climate Watch website (formerly known as the CAIT Climate Data Explorer), which enables journalists and others to examine greenhouse gas data by country and per capita emissions.{{cite news |title=The World's Greenhouse Gas Emissions in One Graphic {{!}} Climate Central |url=https://www.climatecentral.org/news/greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-country-19167 |work=www.climatecentral.org |date=July 3, 2015 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Darby |first1=Megan |title=7 climate change data tools and what they tell you |url=https://www.climatechangenews.com/2015/10/21/7-climate-change-data-tools-and-what-they-tell-you/ |work=Climate Home News |date=21 October 2015 |language=en}}

In 1997 and 2000, WRI published the first comparative study of material flow accounting (MFA), using time series data to comprehensively assess all material inputs and outputs (excluding water) used by industrial economies.{{cite journal |last1=Krausmann |first1=Fridolin |last2=Schandl |first2=Heinz |last3=Eisenmenger |first3=Nina |last4=Giljum |first4=Stefan |last5=Jackson |first5=Tim |title=Material Flow Accounting: Measuring Global Material Use for Sustainable Development |journal=Annual Review of Environment and Resources |date=17 October 2017 |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=647–675 |doi=10.1146/annurev-environ-102016-060726 |language=en |issn=1543-5938|doi-access=free }}

In 2008, the World Resources Institute reported on water quality world-wide, identifying over 400 dead zones due to eutrophication including areas in the Baltic Sea, the Chesapeake Bay in the United States, and Australia's Great Barrier Reef (33, 34). Eutrophication results from the discharge of highly concentrated phosphorus in urban wastewater into lakes and rivers, and from agricultural nutrient pollution.{{cite journal |last1=Cordell |first1=Dana |last2=White |first2=Stuart |title=Life's Bottleneck: Sustaining the World's Phosphorus for a Food Secure Future |journal=Annual Review of Environment and Resources |date=17 October 2014 |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=161–188 |doi=10.1146/annurev-environ-010213-113300 |language=en |issn=1543-5938|doi-access=free }} WRI advocates for the use of local nature-based solutions (NBS), which tend to be cost-effective, to improve ecosystems, resist water-related climate impacts, and mitigate the effects of warming.{{cite news |title=WRI: Investing in nature is most cost-effective for water crisis |url=https://www.laprensalatina.com/wri-investing-in-nature-is-most-cost-effective-for-water-crisis/ |work=La Prensa Latina Media |date=3 September 2022}}

WRI publishes the Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas, ranking countries in terms of risk of severe water crises.{{cite web |last1=Mala |first1=Alisa |date=December 30, 2022 |title=The 10 Most Water-Stressed Countries In The World |url=https://www.worldatlas.com/natural-disasters/the-10-most-water-stressed-countries-in-the-world.html |website=WorldAtlas |access-date=6 June 2023 }}{{cite news |last1=Holden |first1=Emily |last2=Doshi |first2=Vidhi |title=Extreme water stress affects a quarter of the world's population, say experts |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/aug/06/extreme-water-stress-affects-a-quarter-of-the-worlds-population-say-experts |work=The Guardian |date=6 August 2019}}

WRI is active in studying the world's coral reefs,{{cite journal |last1=Novi |first1=Lyuba |last2=Bracco |first2=Annalisa |title=Machine learning prediction of connectivity, biodiversity and resilience in the Coral Triangle |journal=Communications Biology |date=10 December 2022 |volume=5 |issue=1 |page=1359 |doi=10.1038/s42003-022-04330-8 |pmid=36496519 |language=en |issn=2399-3642|pmc=9741626 }} publishing reports in 1998 and 2011 that tracked damages due to coastal development, overfishing, climate change and rising ocean acidity.{{cite news |last1=Rudolf |first1=John Collins |title=Deeper Peril for Coral Reefs |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/deeper-peril-for-coral-reefs/ |work=The New York Times Green Blog |date=24 February 2011 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Irvine |first1=Dean |title=Could online maps save coral reefs? - CNN.com |url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/25/reefs.google.earth/index.html |access-date=6 June 2023 |work=CNN |date=May 25, 2010 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Society |first1=Wildlife Conservation |title=Recipe for saving coral reefs: Add more fish |url=https://phys.org/news/2015-04-recipe-coral-reefs-fish.html |work=Phys.org |date=April 8, 2015 |language=en}} A 2022 report examines reefs to a {{convert|500|m}} resolution and analyzes the protection that reefs provide to people, infrastructure and the GDP.{{cite news |title=Coral Reefs as Coastal Defenders |url=https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/coral-reefs-coastal-defense/ |access-date=6 June 2023 |work=The Nature Conservancy |date=October 17, 2022}}

Beginning in 2002, the World Resources Institute worked with the Cameroon Forest Initiative, to combine disparate sources of data on land use to form digital and paper maps to track changes to Cameroon's forests and improve their management. They integrated satellite imagery with information on agricultural terrain, boundaries, protected land, community-owned forests, and authorized land use by commercial logging operations and mining concessions.{{cite news |last1=Bryce |first1=Emma |title=Mapping Cameroon's Motley Canopy |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/mapping-cameroons-motley-canopy/ |work=The New York Times Green Blog |date=15 November 2012 |language=en}}

In 2014, WRI built upon Matthew C. Hansen's work at the University of Maryland on forest change analysis. WRI partnered with Google Earth Engine to develop Global Forest Watch (GFW), an open-source web application that uses Landsat satellite imagery to map forest changes.{{Cite news|url = https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26287137|title = New online tool tracks tree loss in 'near real time'|last = McGrath|first = Matt|date = 21 February 2014|work = BBC News|access-date = 10 November 2015}}{{Cite news|url = http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/02/21/global_forest_watch_made_by_google_and_the_world_resources_institute_shows.html|title = This Mapping Service Lets Us Watch Forests Shrink|last = Newman|first = Lily|date = 21 February 2014|work = Slate|access-date = 10 November 2015}}{{cite journal |last1=Hansen |first1=M. C. |last2=Potapov |first2=P. V. |last3=Moore |first3=R. |last4=Hancher |first4=M. |last5=Turubanova |first5=S. A. |last6=Tyukavina |first6=A. |last7=Thau |first7=D. |last8=Stehman |first8=S. V. |last9=Goetz |first9=S. J. |last10=Loveland |first10=T. R. |last11=Kommareddy |first11=A. |last12=Egorov |first12=A. |last13=Chini |first13=L. |last14=Justice |first14=C. O. |last15=Townshend |first15=J. R. G. |title=High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change |journal=Science |date=15 November 2013 |volume=342 |issue=6160 |pages=850–853 |doi=10.1126/science.1244693 |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1244693 |language=en |issn=0036-8075|url-access=subscription }} Weekly GLAD deforestation alerts and daily Fires alerts can be specific to a {{convert|30|m2}} area. Global Forest Watch is most frequently used by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), academic researchers, government employees, and the private sector. It is also used by journalists and indigenous groups,{{cite news |last1=Datta |first1=Anusuya |title=Eyes in the skies: Getting the most out of satellite data and images {{!}} Quill |url=https://www.quillmag.com/2022/01/31/eyes-in-the-skies-getting-the-most-out-of-satellite-data-and-images/ |work=Quill |date=January 31, 2022}} many of whose lands are threatened.{{cite news |last1=Yeung |first1=Peter |title=The world's best rainforest guardians already live there |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/05/01/indonesia-rain-forest-guardians/ |newspaper=Washington Post |date=1 May 2023 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=LandMark Map |url=https://www.landmarkmap.org/ |website=LandMark |access-date=6 June 2023}}

Applications of Global Forest Watch include rapid detection and response to fires,{{cite book |last1=Shea |first1=Katherine |title=Transformational Change for People and the Planet: Evaluating Environment and Development |date=2022 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-030-78853-7 |pages=263–273 |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-78853-7_18 |language=en |chapter=Measuring the Impact of Monitoring: How We Know Transparent Near-Real-Time Data Can Help Save the Forests|series=Sustainable Development Goals Series |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-78853-7_18 }} detecting illegal logging, assuring supply chain transparency, and assessing endangered tiger habitats.{{cite web |title=Case Studies |url=https://earthengine.google.com/case_studies/ |website=Google Earth Engine |access-date=5 June 2023}}

Working with the Sustainability Consortium, WRI works to identify and quantify major drivers of forest losses. For example, they have identified industrial scale internationally traded commodity crops such as beef, soybeans, palm oil, corn, and cotton as a dominant driver of forest loss in South America and Southeast Asia.{{cite web |last1=Ritchie |first1=Hannah |author1-link=Hannah Ritchie |last2=Roser |first2=Max |author2-link=Max Roser |last3=Rosado |first3=Pablo |title=CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions |url=https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector |website=Our World in Data |date=11 May 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Voiland |first1=Adam |title=Sizing Up How Agriculture Connects to Deforestation |url=https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148674/sizing-up-how-agriculture-connects-to-deforestation |access-date=5 June 2023 |work=earthobservatory.nasa.gov |date=11 August 2021 |language=en}}

As of January 2021, WRI used Global Forest Watch to generate a forest carbon flux map that combined data about emissions and removals of forest-related greenhouse gases. Using a new method for integrating ground, airborne, and satellite data to measure carbon fluctuations in forests, they were able to map forests worldwide at a resolution of {{convert|30|m}} yearly from 2001–2019. They were able to identify the contributions of different forest types, confirming that tropical forests both absorb more carbon than other types of forests, and release more as a result of deforestation and degradation. By integrating emissions and removals, the map increases the transparency and accuracy of global carbon estimates and can support more effective forest management decisions.{{cite news |title=NASA Satellites Help Quantify Forests' Impacts on the Global Carbon Budget |url=https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-satellites-help-quantify-forests-impacts-on-the-global-carbon-budget |access-date=6 June 2023 |work=NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) |date=February 3, 2021}}{{cite journal |last1=Harris |first1=Nancy L. |last2=Gibbs |first2=David A. |last3=Baccini |first3=Alessandro |last4=Birdsey |first4=Richard A. |last5=de Bruin |first5=Sytze |last6=Farina |first6=Mary |last7=Fatoyinbo |first7=Lola |last8=Hansen |first8=Matthew C. |last9=Herold |first9=Martin |last10=Houghton |first10=Richard A. |last11=Potapov |first11=Peter V. |last12=Suarez |first12=Daniela Requena |last13=Roman-Cuesta |first13=Rosa M. |last14=Saatchi |first14=Sassan S. |last15=Slay |first15=Christy M. |last16=Turubanova |first16=Svetlana A. |last17=Tyukavina |first17=Alexandra |title=Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes |journal=Nature Climate Change |date=March 2021 |volume=11 |issue=3 |pages=234–240 |doi=10.1038/s41558-020-00976-6 |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-00976-6 |language=en |issn=1758-6798|url-access=subscription }}

In addition to mapping carbon emissions from forest loss, WRI is working with scientists at Purdue University, Science-i, and the Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative to develop methods for assessing carbon accumulation rates in forested ecosystems. Such rates are affected by three forest growth components, which are difficult to measure: ingrowth, upgrowth and mortality. Being able to assess this more accurately would reduce uncertainty in estimating the impact of global forests as a carbon sink.{{cite news |title=Purdue launches new AI-based global forest mapping project |url=https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2023/Q1/purdue-launches-new-ai-based-global-forest-mapping-project.html |work=Purdue University Agriculture News |date=January 25, 2023 |language=en}}

WRI has partnered with Google Earth Engine to develop Dynamic World, a near real-time (NRT) application that uses high-resolution satellite images to do land use land cover (LULC) classification. Dynamic World identifies areas of land and water such as wetlands, forests, trees, crops and urban areas. Released in June 2022, its uses include monitoring ecosystem restoration, assessing protected areas, and detecting land changes due to deforestation and fires.{{cite news |last1=Cowan |first1=Carolyn |title=New near-real-time tool reveals Earth's land cover in more detail than ever before |url=https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/new-near-real-time-tool-reveals-earths-land-cover-in-more-detail-than-ever-before/ |access-date=5 June 2023 |work=Mongabay Environmental News |date=9 June 2022}}{{cite news |last1=Price |first1=Gary |title=Dynamic World: A New Online Tool from World Resources Institute and Google Earth Engine Shows How the Planet Is Changing in Near Real Time |url=https://www.infodocket.com/2022/06/09/dynamic-world-a-new-online-tool-from-world-resources-institute-and-google-earth-engine-shows-how-the-planet-is-changing-in-near-real-time/ |access-date=5 June 2023 |work=Library Journal infoDOCKET |date=9 June 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Brown |first1=Christopher F. |last2=Brumby |first2=Steven P. |last3=Guzder-Williams |first3=Brookie |last4=Birch |first4=Tanya |last5=Hyde |first5=Samantha Brooks |last6=Mazzariello |first6=Joseph |last7=Czerwinski |first7=Wanda |last8=Pasquarella |first8=Valerie J. |last9=Haertel |first9=Robert |last10=Ilyushchenko |first10=Simon |last11=Schwehr |first11=Kurt |last12=Weisse |first12=Mikaela |last13=Stolle |first13=Fred |last14=Hanson |first14=Craig |last15=Guinan |first15=Oliver |last16=Moore |first16=Rebecca |last17=Tait |first17=Alexander M. |title=Dynamic World, Near real-time global 10 m land use land cover mapping |journal=Scientific Data |date=9 June 2022 |volume=9 |issue=1 |page=251 |doi=10.1038/s41597-022-01307-4|pmc=9184477 }}

WRI's LandMark project provides maps and information indicating lands that are collectively held and used by Indigenous peoples and local communities. Data for the Amazon region has shown that rainforest managed by local and Indigenous communities stores carbon dioxide, while rainforest managed by government and private interests is a net source of greenhouse gases.{{cite news |first1=Bob |last1= Berwyn |first2=Katie |last2= Surma |title=In the Amazon, Indigenous and Locally Controlled Land Stores Carbon, but the Rest of the Rainforest Emits Greenhouse Gases |url=https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16012023/rainforest-indigenous-peoples-carbon-sink/ |access-date=6 June 2023 |work=Inside Climate News |date=16 January 2023}}

Other WRI initiatives include The Access Initiative, which ranks countries based on environmental democracy, the ability of citizens to engage in decision-making about natural resources, as measured by transparency, public participation laws, and access to justice.{{Cite web|url=http://accessinitiative.org/|title=Home | The Access Initiative|website=accessinitiative.org}}{{cite news |title=India ranks 24th out of 70 countries in the first Environmental Democracy Index |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/india-ranks-24th-out-of-70-countries-in-the-first-environmental-democracy-index/ |work=The Indian Express |date=21 May 2015 |language=en}}

In 2014, philanthropist Stephen M. Ross established the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities through a major gift.{{cite news |title=Stephen Ross Makes Over $30 Million Gift to WRI to Advance Sustainable Cities |url=https://www.wri.org/news/stephen-ross-makes-over-30-million-gift-wri-advance-sustainable-cities |access-date=6 June 2023 |work=World Resources Institute |date=19 May 2014 |language=en}} The Center focuses on the development of sustainable cities and improvements in quality of life in developing countries around the world. WRI's flagship report for 2021 was Seven Transformations for More Equitable and Sustainable Cities. It followed Accelerating Building Efficiency: Eight Actions for Urban Leaders (2019).{{cite news |last1=Michell |first1=Nick |title=WRI releases new cities report on building efficiency |url=https://cities-today.com/wri-releases-new-cities-report-on-building-efficiency/ |work=Cities Today |date=5 June 2016}}

The Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE) is a public-private collaboration platform and project accelerating focusing on building the circular economy.{{cite news |last1=Moloney |first1=Anastasia |title=Consume less, recycle more to meet climate goals, ministers say |url=https://news.trust.org/item/20210205161207-563xk |work=Thomson Reuters Foundation News |date=5 February 2021}} PACE was launched during the 2018 World Economic Forum Annual meeting.{{cite news |title=PACE Releases Guidance for Circular Economy Transition in Five Sectors {{!}} News |url=https://sdg.iisd.org/news/pace-releases-guidance-for-circular-economy-transition-in-five-sectors/ |work=IISD's SDG Knowledge Hub |date=24 February 2021}}

The Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA) is an alliance of large clean energy buyers, energy providers, and service providers that is unlocking the marketplace for all non-residential energy buyers to lead a rapid transition to a cleaner, prosperous, zero-carbon renewable energy future.{{Cite web|url=https://rebuyers.org/|title=REBA – Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance|website=rebuyers.org}} It has over 200 members including Google, GM, Facebook, Walmart, Disney and other large companies, and reached 6 GW capacity in 2018.{{cite web |last1=Dzikiy |first1=Phil |title=Google, GM, and more than 300 other companies launch Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance |url=https://electrek.co/2019/03/28/google-gm-reba-renewables/ |website=Electrek |access-date=28 March 2019 |date=28 March 2019}}

WRI's Champions 12.3 coalition promotes a “Target, Measure, Act” strategy with the goal of halving food loss and waste by 2030.{{cite news |last1=Goodwin |first1=Liz |title=Is Global Progress to Fight Food Loss and Waste Enough? |url=https://www.oecd-forum.org/posts/is-global-progress-to-fight-food-loss-and-waste-enough |work=The OECD Forum Network |date=28 October 2022 |language=en}}

A 1990 study by the World Resources Institute was criticized by Anil Agarwal, who had been on the council of the World Resources Institute from 1988 to 1990. Agarwal, who "was among the first to argue that concepts of social equity need to be integrated into international policies aimed at mitigating the harmful effects of human-induced climate change",{{cite journal |last1=Dickson |first1=David |title=Anil Agarwal (1947–2002) |journal=Nature |date=January 2002 |volume=415 |issue=6870 |pages=384 |doi=10.1038/415384a |language=en |issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free }} accused WRI of allocating too much responsibility for global warming to developing countries, and under-acknowledging the impact of U.S. overconsumption on global warming. He called the WRI study an example of environmental colonialism and suggested that a fairer analysis would balance sources of emissions against terrestrial sinks for each nation.{{cite journal |last1=Agarwal |first1=Anil |last2=Narain |first2=Sunita |title=Global Warming in an Unequal World: A Case of Environmental Colonialism |date=21 November 2019 |journal=India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Development|doi=10.1093/oso/9780199498734.003.0005 |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/35227/chapter/299750611 |language=en|doi-access=free |url-access=subscription }}{{cite book |title=World resources 1990-91: a report |date=1990 |publisher=Oxford Univ. Pr |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0195062298}} His critique sparked considerable debate about the appropriate methodologies for such analysis, and resulted in increased awareness of the issues involved.{{cite journal |last1=Guha |first1=Ramachandra |title=Environmentalist of the Poor |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |date=2002 |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=204–207 |jstor=4411622 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4411622 |issn=0012-9976}}{{cite book |last1=Lash |first1=Scott |last2=Szerszynski |first2=Bronislaw |last3=Wynne |first3=Brian |title=Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology |date=5 April 1996 |publisher=SAGE |isbn=978-0-8039-7938-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2wsbOkprvIC&pg=PA244 |page=244 |language=en}}

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• Rafe Pomerance
• Center for International Policy
• MacArthur Foundation

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