Fijian diplomat Peter Thomson, UN Special Envoy for the Ocean and former President of the UN General Assembly, joins WRI Vice President for Communications Lawrence MacDonald and WRI Ocean Director Kristian Telecki to talk about global progress on monitoring oceans, setting goals, and delivering results.

At the Oslo Tropical Forest Forum (June 27-28), World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Watch released brand new 2017 global tree cover loss data, revealing how much forest was lost around the world last year and emerging country hot spots to watch. The new satellite-based data analyzed by the University of Maryland provides a transparent view of how countries are managing this important resource.

On June 21, 2018, at 10:00am EDT/16:00 CEST, WRI hosted a press call to preview the 2017 tree cover loss data findings for reporters. Speakers representing governments and civil society joined WRI experts to share insights from the data, discuss where progress has been made to protect forests over the past decade and explain where challenges persist.

Speakers below:

Andreas Dahl-Jørgensen, Deputy Director of Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)

Carlos Nobre, Senior Researcher, Institute of Advances Studies, University of São Paolo, Brazil and Senior Fellow, WRI Brasil

Frances Seymour, Distinguished Senior Fellow, WRI

Mikaela Weisse, Research Analyst, WRI

Nancy Harris, Research Manager for Global Forest Watch, WRI

Dr. Putera Parthama, Interim Director General for Climate Change, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Indonesia

Rod Taylor, Global Director of Forests, WRI

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Walter Vergara, Senior Fellow, WRI

Moderator: Lauren Zelin, Media Relations Manager, WRI

Rangers in Uganda take mobile phones and tablets on their forest patrols. But they aren't bringing them to text friends, scroll Instagram, or play Temple Run during downtime. They're using them to follow deforestation alerts generated by satellites circling the earth, and to upload photos of illegal logging they find.

This app, Forest Watcher, was developed by Jane Goodall Institute, World Resources Institute and Vizzuality. In this podcast, we take a trip to the field, then sit down to talk about Forest Watcher with Rachael Petersen, deputy director of Global Forest Watch at WRI, and Dr. Lillian Pintea, vice president of conservation science at the Jane Goodall Institute.

A leading economist, Montek Singh Ahluwalia served for a decade in the Indian government, retiring in 2014 as Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission--a cabinet-level post. In this conversation with Lawrence MacDonald, vice president for communications at WRI, Ahluwalia discusses India's prospects for transitioning to a low-carbon, high-efficiency economy, and what the world can learn from their successes.

In this episode of the WRI Podcast, Charles Iceland, director, Global and National Water Initiatives with WRI's Food, Forests, and Water Programs, explains what water stress is, how we measure it, and why it matters for understanding geopolitics today.

Country delegates will convene in Bonn, Germany next week for the next round of UN climate negotiations (April 30-May 10). During this session, negotiators need to make considerable progress on designing a robust set of rules to underpin the Paris Agreement (sometimes referred to as the “Paris Rulebook”) so they can be finalized and adopted this December. In addition, the Talanoa Dialogue will play a prominent role in Bonn, where negotiators and other stakeholders will engage in in-depth discussions which shall set the stage for countries to signal at the COP24 summit that they will enhance their national climate plans (NDCs) by 2020.

On Wednesday, April 25 at 9:30am EDT / 3:30pm CEST, World Resources Institute hosted a press teleconference featuring experts who reflected on what to expect at the Bonn negotiations regarding the Paris Rulebook and the Talanoa Dialogue. In addition, speakers zeroed in on what is happening on climate finance and how these negotiations fit into the broader political context, from the role of the United States to the forthcoming Global Climate Action Summit in California, and beyond.

Partnering for Green Growth (P4G) is a new partnership of global leaders that supports real-world solutions for sustainable development. We speak with Ian de Cruz, Global Director of P4G, about how the program is getting off the ground -- and how it will help ground-breaking public-private partnerships for green growth do the same around the world.

The first global stocktaking exercise of the Paris Agreement has officially begun with the opening of a new online portal for the 2018 Talanoa Dialogue. Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan, Climate COP23 Chief Negotiator, outlines how you can engage with the Talanoa Dialogue and jumpstart climate action in 2018.

More than a dozen of the world’s leading shared transport and technology companies will come together to announce their joint vision for the future of cities on Thursday February 1 at 9:00 am ET.

Despite competing for market share, the companies have a shared vision for making cities more livable by prioritizing people over vehicles, lowering emissions, promoting equity and more.

Press call speakers:

• Robin Chase, Co-Founder of Zipcar

• Bill Peduto, Mayor of Pittsburgh, USA

• Jean Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris, France

• Clement Michel, International Regional Director, Keolis

• Joseph Okpaku, VP, Government Relations, Lyft

• Chris Martin, Vice President, Mobike

• Chris Taylor, Vice President and Head of North America, ofo

• Jake Sion, Chief Operating Officer, Transit

• Andrew Salzberg, Head of Transportation Policy and Research, Uber

• Andrei Greenawalt, Vice President for Public Policy, Via

• Jyot Chadha, Director of Urban Innovation, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

• Justin Holmes, Director of Corporate Communications and Public Policy, Zipcar

• Moderated by Michael Oko, Director of Communications, World Resources Institute (WRI)

On Friday, October 27, at 9:30am EDT, World Resources Institute held a press call where WRI’s president and experts on international climate policy, finance, and adaptation shared insights on what to watch at COP23. Speakers include: Andrew Steer, Paula Caballero, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, and Christina Chan