HIGHLIGHTS Global Shale Gas Development: Water Availability and Business Risks Dozens of countries are deciding whether or not to develop their shale gas and tight oil resources, as shale gas could boost recoverable natural gas resources by 47 percent, cut greenhouse gas emissions compared to …
Getting Energy Prices Right: From Principle to Practice
Ethical Markets has campaigned for 30 years to get all externalities internalized within company and public sector balance sheets. We salute the IMF for this report and I hope to review the full volume soonest. Hazel Henderson,Editor Previous IMF studies set forth the basic principle that getting energy prices …
WRI Digest: State of the Union, Davos, and more
WRI Digest: State of the Union, Davos, and more STATEMENT: WRI Response to the 2014 State of the Union Address.In his State of the Union address, President Obama asserted, “The debate is settled. Climate change is a fact,” and called for greater urgency to tackle climate change. WRI’s President Dr. Andrew …
WRI Digest: 2013 Year-End Roundup
5 Things We Learned in 2013 that Could Move the Needle on Sustainability. The big news from 2013 came from gains in knowledge. wri President and ceo Andrew Steer highlights how our understanding was deepened in several key areas, adding, “The achievement of 2013 has been that, if we fail …
WRI Digest
At the end of September, WRI helped launch The New Climate Economy, the flagship project of The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. The year-long research project will analyze the economic costs and benefits of climate action. In an OpEd originally posted on Project Syndicate, former President of Mexico and current …
WRI Digest: 3 Needs For A Sustainable Food Future, Bonn Climate Talks
WRI Digest The Great Balancing Act: 3 Needs For A Sustainable Food Future. How can the world feed more than 9 billion people by 2050 in a manner that advances economic development and reduces pressure on the environment? Answering it requires a “great balancing act” of three needs – all …
WRI Digest: Water Risk Maps | Reducing U.S. Emissions | Transportation & Road Safety
To view this email as a web page, go here. WRI Digest: February 2013 Water Risk Maps | Reducing U.S. Emissions | Transportation & Road Safety New Aqueduct Mapping Tool Provides Unprecedented Ability to Assess Water Risk. Water is very complicated. It’s affected by large-scale issues like climate change and globalization. …