World Resources Institute2015年年度报告.pdf

1、PIVOTAL YEARWRI 2015 ANNUAL REPORTwri.org/annualreport/2015/2 WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTEWRI is pleased to offer the 2015 Annual Report online at wri.org/annualreport/2015/in a desktop and mobile-friendly format.PIVOTAL YEAR|2015 ANNUAL REPORT 3LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN&PRESIDENTThe past 12 months have

2、 been a troubled but pivotal year.Media reports were full of the migrant crisis,geopolitical instability and an upsurge in terrorism.Markets were tremendously volatile and the global economy stumbled.But 2015 was also a year of hope:the year when nations of the world came together around a set of Su

3、stainable Development Goals(SDGs)for the next 15 years and the potentially game-changing Paris Agreement on climate.Andrew SteerPresident and CEOJames A.HarmonChairman of the BoardIn a year that once again was by a significant margin the hottest in the modern record,a new multilateralism seemed to e

4、merge,suggesting a greater level of cooperation among nations than weve seen in decades.WRI was privileged to be at the heart of this development.Years of work by our experts came together in 2015 in the elements of a climate agreement and in several of the most important SDGs.Our proposals were emb

5、raced because they built on our core strengthdata-based analysis that takes the long viewand on our global reach and relationships with policymakers.Members of our team were closely involved with country delegations over the long haul,up to the final moments of COP21.They laid the groundwork more th

6、an a year earlier by convening an international consortium of climate experts to frame the specifics of a successful climate plan in an initiative called ACT 2015.The language of that initiative proved extraordinarily useful as the agreement was hammered out.Given the importance of these internation