World Resources Institute2005年年度报告.pdf

1、IDEAS INTO ACTIONCONTENTSChairman and Presidents Letter 1Mission,Goals,and Values 2Climate and Energy 4Protecting the climate from further harm due to greenhouse gas emissions.Governance and Access 6Guaranteeing public access to information and decisions regarding natural resources and the environme

2、nt.Markets and Enterprise 8Harnessing the power of business to expand economic opportunity and protect the environment.People and Ecosystems 10Reversing rapid degradation of ecosystems to assure the Earths capacity to provide people with needed goods and services.Millennium Ecosystem Assessment spec

3、ial featureWalking the Talk 14Project Descriptions 16Donors 18Financial Statement 20Board of Directors 22AnnualReport 200510 G Street,NESuite 800Washington,DC 20002www.wri.orgThe WRI logo represents a knot tying together the threads of natural resource use and conservation,economic development,and s

4、ocial equity through research,capacity building,and institutional change.FEATURED ON THE COVERCities on the MoveClinton Global Initiative recognizes EMBARQ as an innovative approach to sustainable mobility.EMBARQ was founded at WRI in 2002 with a core grant from the Shell Foundation.From left:Presid

5、ent Clinton;Dr.Nancy Kete,Director of EMBARQ;Jos Fogaa,Mayor of Porto Alegre,and Kurt Hoffman,Director of the Shell Foundation.Mexico Citys new Bus Rapid Transit Corridor carried its 70-millionth passenger just twelve months after opening in 2005.Two hundred and fi fty thousand passengers use the sy

6、stem each day cutting travel time from the far north of Mexico City to the south in half and averaging time savings per commuter of up to about ten minutes.Placing a conservative dollar estimate on time in Mexico City at two cents per minute,this yields$12.5 million of benefi ts per year from time s