World Resources Institute
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| Formation | 1982 |
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| Founder | James Gustave Speth |
| Andrew Steer | |
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James A. Harmon |
| Mission | To move human society to live in ways that protect Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations. |
| Website | WRI.org |
The World Resources Institute (WRI) is an independent, non-governmental global research organization which seeks to create equity and prosperity through sustainable natural resource management. It was established in 1982 with funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation under the leadership of James Gustave Speth. WRI is an independent, non-partisan and nonprofit organization with a global staff of more than 450 scientists, economists, policy experts, business analysts, statistical analysts, mapmakers, and communicators developing and promoting policies with the intention of protecting the Earth and improving people’s lives.
WRI's activities are focused on six areas: climate, clean energy, food, forests, water, and sustainable cities. In 2014, Stephen M. Ross, an American real estate developer, gave the organization US$30,500,000 to establish WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.
The world’s energy systems need a change, they have proved ineffective as well as posing a great threat to the entire population. With climate change due to human pollution and activity, as well as more than 1.3 billion people[1] still lacking access to electricity, something needs to be done. While subsidies still continue to support fossil fuel investment, there has been a global shift in more sustainable energy systems. World Resource works with the policymakers of the civil society to transform and change the global energy system. We focus on dramatically reducing greenhouse gas pollution while still providing energy to those in the most poverty-stricken situations.
Society, human activity, and the global economy are all linked to forests; More than 1 billion[2] people depend on forests for their livelihoods. Forest ecosystems play critical roles in stabilizing the climate; and providing food, water, wood products, and vital medicines. World Resource aims at curbing deforestation worldwide while helping to restore already-cleared land.
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