Kirsty Jenkinson talks about how New Ventures, WRI’s center for environmental entrepreneurship, helps environmentally-focused small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets compete in a global economy.

What is New Ventures?

Nagoya delegates need to plan how the world achieves food security, before ecosystems reach critical tipping points.

This piece originally appeared on the Guardian website.

Can new SEC disclosure rules help bring transparency to Uganda’s oil sector?

This piece originally appeared on the Huffington Post.

After falling behind other development organizations, the World Bank now has a chance to update its environmental and social safeguard policies.

A new policy to develop oil palm on degraded land could protect Indonesia’s forests. But what does “degraded” really mean?

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p>This piece is adapted from a speech that was delivered on June 25th at the 5th Asia Clean Energy Forum: Meeting the Technology Transfer Challenge.

An upcoming United States-Indonesia partnership is an opportunity to tackle deforestation.

The World Bank must systematically address issues of environmental and social sustainability in its mainstream investments.

This post originally appeared on the World Bank blog “Development in a Changing Climate.”

Read WRI’s formal comments to the World Bank Group on its Energy Strategy Review.

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Multilateral Development Banks can play a leading role in promoting more sustainable energy options.