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WRI is committed to producing high-quality research, including reports, issue briefs, guidebooks, working papers, technical notes, and practice notes. Our research publications are subject to peer review, and are held to traditional "academic" standards of excellence, such as objectivity and rigor. We also ensure that all of our research publications are timely, fit for audience, and rooted in a strategic plan for achieving positive change in the world. If you notice an error in our research or have concerns about quality, please contact the authors and copy Vice President for Research, Data and Innovation Janet Ranganathan.All of our research is freely available to download.The World Resources Report is the flagship publication of World Resources Institute. The inaugural edition, An Assessment of the Resource Base that Supports the Global Economy, was published in 1986. Subsequent editions have been published at regular intervals and have provided in-depth analyses of issues ranging from human health and the environment to climate change, ecosystem services and environmental governance. Every World Resources Report builds on a strong evidence base to develop fresh insights that can help decision-makers evaluate and implement the most effective solutions.The World Resources Report: Towards a More Equal City focuses on helping cities in rapidly urbanizing regions alter their development trajectories as demand for infrastructure and services grow.Read More Square Your CircleHow to Ensure a Just Transition to Reuse Business Models in ApparelThis guidebook aims to help companies identify the stakeholders in their supply chain and recognize the effects their transition to reuse business models may have on them. It is intended to be a guide, as part of a learning process, to ensure the transition to a reuse model, a component of the...by Deborah Drew, Austin Dickerson, Sam Gillick-Daniels and Eliot Metzger - September 2020 Building Coastal Resilience in Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Colombia: Country Experiences with Mainstreaming Climate AdaptationMore severe flooding and erosion, more intense storms, rising seas, increased salinization, and higher storm surges are some of the new realities around the world that make coastal areas particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts.This paper examines case studies from three...by Stefanie Tye, Jacob Waslander and Moushumi Chaudhury - September 2020 Ending Conflicts Over WaterSolutions to Water and Security ChallengesThis report explores some of the thorniest water crises taking place across the developing world. In southern Iraq, severe water quality problems have triggered social unrest and violent protests. Recent droughts in India have prompted an exodus of farmers from the countryside in Maharashtra and...by Peter Gleick, Charles Iceland and Ayushi Trivedi - September 2020 Aggregating Cities’ GHG Mitigation Targets with Modeled Emissions Scenarios Methods and Data Used in the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy ModelThis technical note details of the methodology employed to estimate the aggregated actual and projected greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of cities party to the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate Energy (GCoM), using baseline and target emissions scenarios to project potential avoided...by Alex Kovac, Shannon McDaniel, Albana Kona, Paolo Bertoldi and Carley Chavara - August 2020 Designing and Communicating Net-Zero TargetsThe latest science from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2018) suggests that to meet the Paris Agreement’s temperature goals, the world will need to reach net-zero GHG emissions early in the second half of the next century. At the global level, achieving net-zero emissions means...by Kelly Levin, David Rich, Katherine Ross, Taryn Fransen and Cynthia Elliott - July 2020 Linking Electricity Access and Development Outcomes in Africa: A Framework for ActionIn this decade of action for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the ability of African governments to meet ambitious goals in poverty reduction, health care delivery, education, and other services that depend on access to electricity will be severely compromised if adequate...by Lily Odarno - July 2020 America’s New Climate Economy: A Comprehensive Guide to the Economic Benefits of Climate Policy in the United StatesThis working paper draws on the latest economic research to demonstrate how climate policy and investments in low-carbon infrastructure can reboot America’s economy and set it up for long-term success. On the other hand, delaying action on climate will further expose the United States to costly...by Devashree Saha and Joel Jaeger - July 2020 Case Study of an Energy Project in Health Facilities in Kenya: How to Implement Demand-Based ApproachesWe urgently need to understand how to improve energy access through demand-based approaches. This new study discusses how to implement demand-based approach by examining the results of a pilot project, in which health-care providers in Kenya were able to select renewable energy options to...by Chen Chen, Davida Wood, Sanjoy Sanyal and Rita Mwachandi - July 2020 How Electricity Distribution Companies In India Can Work With Commercial And Industrial Consumers For Renewable Energy ProcurementAs a result of a multitude of factors, such as national and international commitments to Renewable Energy (RE), falling RE prices, government regulation promoting RE, and the advent of sustainability targets, Commercial and Industrial (C I) consumers all over the world have begun to actively...by Deepak Sriram Krishnan, Ashok Kumar Thanikonda, Parul Kumar and Tirthankar Mandal - July 2020 The Impact Investors’ Blind Spot: Local Clean Energy Entrepreneurs in KenyaImpact investment aiming at generating both financial and socioeconomic returns is critical to achieve universal energy access. Off-grid energy access companies have absorbed about US$1.7 billion worldwide in disclosed investments in the period 2010 to 2018. The pace of investment has accelerated...by Sanjoy Sanyal, Chen Chen and Molly Caldwell - July 2020 ImpactAr ToolValuing Air Quality Health Impacts of Urban Bus Fleet Changes in BrazilIn Brazil, where the transport sector is one of the biggest contributors to air pollution in cities, replacing conventional buses with electric vehicles can save lives and positively impact the economy. This is what ImpactAr tool, a technical note and a valuation model, demonstrates. Developed...by Luana Betti, Marina Caregnato Garcia, Eduardo Siqueira and Henrique Evers - June 2020 ACCC: Local Government Renewables Action Tracker: Summary of Methods and DataThe Local Government Renewables Action Tracker is an interactive web tool that presents a compilation of the renewable electricity transactions and advocacy efforts that have been completed by U.S. cities, counties, municipal utilities, and community choice aggregations.by Lacey Shaver, Stephen Abbott and Heather House - June 2020 Who’s Governing Community Forests? Gendered Participation in Liberian Forest Management Across sub-Saharan Africa, women play an important role in managing the forests that support their lives, livelihoods and households. Yet they are often excluded from decision-making processes affecting these natural resources. As many African countries take steps to decentralize natural...by Sheila N. Onzere, Natalie Elwell, Edward R. Carr, Cynthia Caron and Denise Bebbington - June 2020 Spatial Characterization of Urban Land Use through Machine LearningThis technical note describes the data sources and methodology underpinning a computer system for the automated generation of land use/land cover (LULC) maps of urban areas. Deploying a rich taxonomy to distinguish between different types of LULC within a built-up area, rather than merely...by Peter Kerins, Emily Nilson, Eric Mackres, Taufiq Rashid, Brook Guzder-Williams and Steven Brumby - June 2020 Comparing the Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Dairy and Pork Systems Across Countries Using Land-Use Carbon Opportunity CostsThis paper compares the lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) costs of dairy production across 13 countries and pork production across 10 countries to obtain insights about what causes higher or lower emissions. It counts the GHG gas costs of land use by using carbon opportunity costs, a method that...by Stefan Wirsenius, Tim Searchinger, Jessica Zionts, Liqing Peng, Tim Beringer and Patrice Dumas - May 2020 Estimating Power Plant Generation in the Global Power Plant DatabaseThe benefits and costs of power plants, including their environmental impacts, depend on their technology and on how much electricity each plant actually generates. However, plant-level generation data are not reported in most countries. This technical note documents methods to estimate the...by Terry Yin, Logan Byers, Laura Malaguzzi Valeri and Johannes Friedrich - May 2020 Aqueduct Floods MethodologyAccording to new data from WRI's Aqueduct Floods Tool, by 2030 the number of people impacted by floods will double worldwide — from 65 million to 132 million due to riverine flooding and from 7 million to 15 million due to coastal flooding. The amount of urban property damaged by riverine floods...by Philip J. Ward, Hessel C. Winsemius, Samantha Kuzma, Marc F.P. Bierkens, Arno Bouwman, Hans De Moel, Andrés Díaz Loaiza, Dirk Eilander, Johanna Englhardt, Gilles Erkens, Eskedar Tafete Gebremedhin, Charles Iceland, Henk Kooi, Willem Ligtvoet, Sanne Muis, Paolo Scussolini, Edwin H. Sutanudjaja, Rens Van Beek, Bas Van Bemmel, Jolien Van Huijstee, Frank Van Rijn, Bregje Van Wesenbeeck, Deepak Vatvani, Martin Verlaan, Timothy Tiggeloven and Tianyi Luo - April 2020 Assessing the Sustainable Development Impacts of Renewable Power Technologies in India: An Economic Returns FrameworkFinancial analyses, which consider financial costs and income, have typically informed energy-related decision-making and investment planning. Economic analyses, however, take societal impacts as a whole, and include social, economic and environmental costs and benefits, which are especially...by Ashwini Hingne, Juan-Carlos Altamirano, Apurba Mitra, Ranping Song and Neelam Singh - April 2020 Mapping Public Water Management: Proof of ConceptWhat cannot be measured cannot be managed. Poor water management poses major risks to agriculture, industry and local communities. However, there is a critical lack of information available about local water conditions — making better management difficult. WRI’s Water Program studies local water...by Cristina Logg, Julian Kölbel, Colin Strong, Paul Reig and Ross Hamilton - April 2020 SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTERSGet our latest commentary, upcoming events, publications, maps, and data. Sign up for the weekly WRI Digest.Sign Up

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