Publications
COP23
WRI activities at UN climate talks Nov 2017
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Pathways for Meeting India’s Climate Goals
by Apurba Mitra, Katherine Ross, Juan-Carlos Altamirano, Taryn Fransen, Puneet Chitkara, Manpreet Singh, Suruchi Sawhney, Sandip Keswani, Sarishtha Majumdar and Priyanka Batra - December 2017This paper analyzes India’s climate change mitigation goals to enhance understanding, evaluate implementation progress, and identify opportunities for enhancing ambition.
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Enhancing NDCs by 2020: Achieving the Goals of the Paris Agreement
by Taryn Fransen, Eliza Northrop, Kathleen Mogelgaard and Kelly Levin - November 2017This paper outlines a menu of options for enhancing NDCs by 2020 pursuant to the Paris Agreement. The menu includes options for enhancing the level of mitigation ambition of the NDC, elaborating or updating the adaptation content of an NDC, adding measures or actions to strengthening implementation and improving the clarity, transparency and understanding of the NDC.
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Designing the Enhanced Transparency Framework, Part 2: Review Under the Paris Agreement
by Yamide Dagnet, Nathan Cogswell, Harro van Asselt, Goncalo Cavalheiro, Marcelo Theoto Rocha and Alice Bisiaux - November 2017The Project for Advancing Climate Transparency (PACT) consortium supports the design and development of robust and effective transparency and accountability rules and processes for the Paris Agreement on climate change. This working paper examines the technical expert review and facilitative, multilateral consideration of progress by drawing on lessons from previous experiences and presenting options for consideration in the modalities, procedures, and guidelines that will govern the process.
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Designing the Enhanced Transparency Framework Part 1: Reporting under the Paris Agreement
by Cynthia Elliott, Kelly Levin, Joe Thwaites, Kathleen Mogelgaard and Yamide Dagnet - November 2017The Project for Advancing Climate Transparency (PACT) consortium works to support the design and development of robust and effective transparency and accountability rules and processes for the Paris Agreement on climate change. This working paper examines the five streams of information to be reported under the Paris Agreement. In particular, this working paper considers what information should be reported, how it should be reported, and when it should be reported.
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Turning Points: Trends in Countries’ Reaching Peak Greenhouse Gas Emissions over Time
by Kelly Levin and David Rich - November 2017This paper assesses when countries’ emissions have peaked or whether they have a commitment that implies an emissions peak in the future.
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Designing and Testing a Methodology to Estimate Private Climate Finance Mobilization from Policy and Other Causal Factors
by Ashley Green and Michael I. Westphal - September 2017This publication proposes a methodology to provide a credible way to estimate mobilized private finance, from public interventions (e.g., policy), for climate finance tracking.
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Early Insights on Long-term Climate Strategies
by Katherine Ross and Taryn Fransen - September 2017This paper sheds light on the initial long-term strategies that have been submitted to the UNFCCC and identifies key considerations for countries that are preparing to develop such strategies.
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Financing the Energy Transition: Are World Bank, IFC, and ADB Energy Supply Investments Supporting a Low-Carbon Future?
by Giulia Christianson, Allison Lee, Gaia Larsen and Ashley Green - May 2017This paper provides a first-cut assessment of how the energy supply investments of the World Bank, International Finance Corporation (IFC), and Asian Development Bank (ADB) align with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global temperature rise to well below 2°C.
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Mapping the Linkages Between the Transparency Framework and Other Provisions of the Paris Agreement
by Yamide Dagnet, Cynthia Elliott, Melisa Krnjaic, Marcelo T. Rocha and Teng Fei - May 2017 -
Future of the Funds: Exploring the Architecture of Multilateral Climate Finance
by Niranjali Manel Amerasinghe, Joe Thwaites, Gaia Larsen and Athena Ballesteros - March 2017This report examines seven key multilateral climate funds and recommends operational and architectural reforms to improve their ability to deliver low-emissions and climate-resilient development.
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Navigating the Sustainable Investment Landscape
by Elizabeth Lewis, Ariel Pinchot and Giulia Christianson - December 2016A new paper by World Resources Institute finds strong interest and opportunities for sustainable investing within the US institutional investor marketplace. But key barriers persist.
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The Economic Case for Landscape Restoration in Latin America
by Walter Vergara, Luciana Gallardo Lomeli, Ana R. Rios, Paul Isbell, Steven Prager and Ronnie De Camino - October 2016The Economic Case for Landscape Restoration in Latin America finds that achieving Initiative 20x20’s goal of restoring 20 million hectares of land in Latin America and the Caribbean could yield net benefits of at least $23 billion over 50 years, an amount equivalent to about 10% of the value of food exports from the region.