Overview
Lobbying Costs
37,500€
Financial year: Oct 2014 - Sep 2015
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 500 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.
Our work focuses on six critical issues at the intersection of environment and development:
Climate: WRI engages businesses, policymakers and civil society at the local, national and international levels to advance transformative solutions that mitigate climate change and help communities adapt to its impacts.
Energy: WRI works with businesses, policymakers, and civil society to transform the global energy system. We aim to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas pollution while meeting the energy needs of the poorest and building competitive economies.
Food: According to WRI research, the world must reduce agriculture’s impact on climate, ecosystems, and water. And it needs to ensure that agriculture supports inclusive economic and social development. WRI works to meet these needs by developing analyses, partnerships, and strategies to secure a sustainable food future.
Forests: WRI works with governments, businesses, and civil society to sustain forests for future generations. We aim to curb deforestation worldwide and help to restore and reforest already-cleared land.
Water: WRI works with businesses, governments, and civil society to ensure a water-secure future. We seek to address both water quantity and quality challenges.
Cities and Transport: WRI aims to ensure that cities drive economic opportunity while sustaining natural resources and improving quality of life. Through our WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, we use technical expertise, cutting-edge research, and on-the-ground partnerships to design solutions that enable sustainable city growth.
We design solutions for and analyze these six critical goals through the lenses of our four 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.
Our Economics Center helps provide a better understanding of the value that ecosystems provide to the economy. We use an economics lens to analyze problems and solutions at the intersection of environment and human well-being.Main EU files targeted
WRI's International Climate Action Initiative seeks to catalyze ambitious, equitable and transformational action on climate change by building effective, robust international cooperation and by providing global thought leadership on strong linkages between climate action and sustainable development, including within the European Union and its member states.
WRI’s Post-2015 SDG team, now referred to as the SDG Delivery team, works in partnership with the Independent Research Forum on a Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda (IRF2015) to inform the global conversation on the required elements of a transformative global development agenda. Since 2012 WRI has served as the secretariat for IRF2015, a global partnership of eleven leading sustainable development institutes formed to engage key decision-makers in the post-2015 processes and to provide timely, demand-driven and independent analysis for the new global agenda. Together with IRF2015, WRI mobilized member state negotiators, including members of the European Union, and non-state stakeholders to build consensus to address the urgent challenges of entrenched poverty, steep inequalities, environmental degradation, and mounting climate impacts.
WRI's Ross Center for Sustainable Cities is a member of the Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT), with the goal of mobilizing global support to promote sustainable, low carbon transport, thereby reducing the growth of GHG emissions generated by land transport in developing countries and maximizing the contribution of transport to poverty eradication and sustainable development. This work is carried out in partnership with other stakeholders in the European Union.Address
Head Office
G ST NE, 10
Washington 20002
UNITED STATES -
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 500 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 Financial and Operations 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 2014 - Sep 2015
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
37,500€
EU grant income for closed financial year
731,083 € (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
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
Information on the projects listed above is available at: http://www.wri.org/our-work/project/post-2015-development-agenda; http://www.wri.org/our-work/topics/climate; and http://www.wri.org/our-work/topics/sustainable-cities.
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 - Diederik Samsom (Cabinet member)
- Anthony Agotha (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 - Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
- Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)
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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 - Simon O'Connor (Cabinet member)
- Maria Elena Scoppio (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)