Ensuring that development projects benefit both people and the planet is becoming more and more of a priority.

Environmental and social impact assessments (ESIA) have been in use for decades to consider the effects of projects such as…

Water is a scarce resource in India, especially in the state of Maharashtra, where most rainfall is limited to the monsoon season from June through September. The Government of India has long…

This post was co-written with James Mulligan, Executive Director at Green Community Ventures.

Natural ecosystems…

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p>WRI will host its 10th annual Stories to Watch event on Tuesday, January 15, 2013, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Dr.

Governments, corporations, and development agencies are increasingly interested in…

Experts from the World Resources Institute will be joining leaders from business, government, and environment communities at the annual ACES and Ecosystems Markets 2012 Summit. The summit will take place from December 10 – 14 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

“To tell the story of the corporation is to tell the story of a grand bargain gone awry,” says Pavan Sukhdev in his new book, …

This post originally appeared on Forbes.com

The Amazon rainforest boasts incomparable biodiversity– home to…

This paper originally appeared on the Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group website. The full text of the paper is available here.

The Coral Triangle, an area stretching from southeast Asia to the edge of the western Pacific, is one of the most biologically diverse…