The Latest Breaking News from WRI

Wildfires now destroy twice as much tree cover per year as two decades ago – a crisis fuelled by climate change

Despite record clean energy investment, coal, deforestation and fossil fuel finance are still rising, warns new report.

Despite major progress in Brazil and Colombia, deforestation led by farming still cleared an area nearly equal to Switzerland

The world lost 10 football fields of old-growth tropical forest every minute in 2023 and despite uplifting progress in the Amazon, the picture elsewhere is less rosy, researchers said on Thursday.

KSDMA collaborates with WRI to implement Kerala State Heat Action Plan & India Cooling Action Plan to reduce heat stress & identify vulnerable communities.

Bengaluru to mitigate climate change impact with 269 actions; 143 to be executed by BBMP. Co-lead of Global Air Quality Network, city to reduce CO2 emission by 2030 & achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. WRI consulted 25 stakeholders & identified priority sectors for mitigation strategies. Broad actions identified for stakeholders…

Primary tropical forest cover continued to decrease at an alarming rate in 2022, making the goal of net zero deforestation by 2030 even more unattainable.

Data shows the world lost about 10 million acres of primary rainforest in 2022.

The dual utilisation of auto rickshaws – to carry passengers and freight – could increase the earnings of auto drivers by 15% and cut logistical costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), says a new research study conducted by World Resources Institute (WRI) India in five cities of the country.