Overview
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Oct 2013 - Sep 2014
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.25 Fte (6)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
20
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
World Resources Institute (WRI)
EU Transparency Register
581250215524-23 First registered on 15 Jan 2015
Goals / Remit
World Resources Institute (WRI) is a global research organization that spans more than 50 countries, with offices in Brazil, China, Europe, India, Indonesia, and the United States. Our more than 450 experts and staff work closely with leaders to turn big ideas into action to sustain our natural resources—the foundation of economic opportunity and human well-being.
We organize our work around six critical goals that the world must achieve this decade in order to secure a sustainable future:
Climate: Protect communities and natural ecosystems from damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions, and generate opportunities for people by catalyzing a global transition to a low-carbon economy.
Energy: Drive the scale-up of clean, affordable power systems throughout the world to deliver sustainable socio-economic development.
Food: Ensure the world’s food systems reduce their impact on the environment, drive economic opportunity, and sustainably feed 9.6 billion people by 2050.
Forests: Alleviate poverty, enhance food security, conserve biodiversity, and mitigate climate change by reducing forest loss and restoring productivity to degraded, deforested lands.
Water: Achieve a water-secure future by mapping, measuring, and mitigating global water risks.
Cities and Transport: Improve quality of life in cities by developing and scaling environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable urban and transport solutions.
Our Centers
We design solutions for and analyze these six critical goals through the lenses of our three Centers:
Our Governance Center works to empower people and support institutions to foster socially equitable and environmentally sound decision-making.
Our Business Center harnesses the private sector to spur action, innovation, and ambition in support of sustainable development outcomes. We combine research, analysis, tools, and direct engagement with businesses to create solutions that advance environmental sustainability and drive value.
Our Finance Center aims to mobilize and shift public and private sector investments toward sustainable development—particularly in developing nations. We advance transparency, sound governance, environmental and social safeguards, and public-private partnerships to ensure this finance is ambitious, accountable, and effective.Main EU files targeted
Our international climate work uses analysis, innovation and partnerships to achieve effective national policies and an ambitious, equitable global climate action agreement, including within the European Union and its member states.
WRI's work on the post-2015 development agenda convenes key stakeholders and decision makers in the post-2015 process and provides practical, evidence-based analysis and guidance on the key elements of a post-2015 development agenda. On this we engage with the European Commission as well as individual member states.Address
Head Office
G ST NE, 10
Washington 20002
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People
Total lobbyists declared
6
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 1 50% 1 25% 4 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
WRI has over 450 staff working around the world, with two located in Europe. Our efforts on global agreements on international climate, finance, and post-2015 development agenda all include engaging with European Governments, so exact percentage of staff time focusing on Europe will vary at any given time. The above is a rough estimate.
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Kitty van der Heijden (Director, Europe)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Steve Barker (Chief Administrative Officer)
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Categories
Category
IV - Think tanks, research and academic institutions
Subcategory
Think tanks and research institutions
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Oct 2013 - Sep 2014
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
None declared
EU grant income for closed financial year
100,957 € (Source: European Commission)
Other financial info
All of WRI's financial information is available online at http://wri.org/about/wri-annual-reports-and-corporate-documents, including a complete list of donors at: http://wri.org/about/donors
Conversion used for this calculation was 1 USD = 0.7377 (average over the fiscal year, per oanda.com) -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
Information on the projects listed above is available at: http://wri.org/our-work/project/post-2015-development-agenda and http://wri.org/our-work/topics/climate.
We have two staff members based in Europe (including in a liaison office in the Hague) who regularly participate in speaking events and present WRI's work.Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
20 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 07 Jun 2023 Location Bruxelles Subject food waste Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides Portfolio Health Attending - Ralf Kuhne (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 Jun 2023 Location Bruxelles Subject VTC meeting on food waste Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides Portfolio Health Attending - Ralf Kuhne (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Mar 2023 Location Brussels Subject EU Green Deal Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Anthony Agotha (Cabinet member)
- Diederik Samsom (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Mar 2023 Location Video-call Subject Global transition to sustainable food systems Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Jul 2022 Location Brussels Subject VTC Meeting - Sustainable Food Systems Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides Portfolio Health Attending - Annukka Ojala (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Jul 2022 Location Brussels Subject Global transition to sustainable food systems Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)
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Date 01 Jul 2022 Location Video-call Subject Global transition to sustainable food systems Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Jan 2022 Location virtual Subject Introduction to WRI Ocean Programme DG Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Attending - Charlina Vitcheva (Director-General)
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Date 08 Dec 2021 Location Brussels Subject COP27; Deforestation Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Anthony Agotha (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Sep 2021 Location Brussels Subject VTC-meeting on Champions 12.3. Coalition on progress toward achieving SDG Target 12.3 on food waste Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides Portfolio Health Attending - Ralf Kuhne (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Sep 2020 Location Brussels Subject Virtual meeting discussion on Food Waste Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides Portfolio Health Attending - Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner)
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Date 21 Feb 2020 Location Washington Subject Closing remarks "Aligning finance with the Paris Agreement:lessons for public and private banks" DG Energy Attending - Ditte Juul Jørgensen (Director-General)
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Date 24 Oct 2019 Location Oslo Subject sustainable finance for the blue economy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella Portfolio Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Attending - Andras Inotai (Cabinet member)
- Karmenu Vella (Commissioner)
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Date 22 Sep 2019 Location New York Subject ocean governance, sustainable blue economy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella Portfolio Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Attending - Karmenu Vella (Commissioner)
- Andras Inotai (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 May 2019 Location Maribor Subject Meeting Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc Portfolio Transport Attending - Violeta Bulc (Commissioner)
- Blaz Pongracic (Cabinet member)
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Date 20 Mar 2019 Location Brussels Subject CAP Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Peter Wehrheim (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Feb 2019 Location Brussels Subject Future food loss and waste targets for EU Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)
- Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
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Date 24 May 2017 Location Brussels Subject Meeting with Liz Goodwin on Food Waste Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 May 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject FTT and Climate finance Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici Portfolio Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Attending - Maria Elena Scoppio (Cabinet member)
- Simon O'Connor (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Jan 2015 Location L-41; 12/12 Subject Development and Climate Change DG Directorate-General for International Partnerships Attending - Fernando Frutuoso De Melo (Director-General)
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