WRI Board Chairman Jim Harmon (far right) at the launch of the Corporate Consultative Group.

The WRI Corporate Consultative Group is a vehicle for exchanging valuable thinking about responses to shared challenges. Membership ensures efficient engagement with WRI experts, and allows individuals across locations and departments in companies to access environmental intelligence that they need in order to protect and grow shareholder value.

WRI’s work focuses on innovation, incentives, shared solutions, and mainstream business responses.

Click here to see WRI Board Member CK Prahalad discuss the value companies can gain by working with WRI’s experts on climate, transport, ecosystems, markets and governance.

Member Activities and Benefits

• Annual meeting composed of seminars and discussion focused on the theme of Ideas to Action. A number of staff from each member company can participate, including those who work on business development, CSR, emerging markets, energy, environmental impact, and procurement.
• Latest news, insights, and reflections delivered through teleconference briefings, tailored publication distribution, and other events.
• Global, regional, and local partnership opportunities in 15 strategic locations.
• Access to WRI staff expertise from all of WRI’s programs.

To apply, or for more information, please download our Corporate Consultative Group Brochure (PDF, 5.8 Mb) or contact Chris Perceval on +1 202-729-7874 or cperceval@wri.org.

How Does WRI Work Effectively With Companies?

Over the last 26 years of working with its partners, the World Resources Institute has pioneered new thinking by:

• helping organize the first international meetings on greenhouse gas emissions,
• developing corporate environmental cost accounting, and
• catalyzing the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.

WRI has also transformed valuable ideas into practical solutions through initiatives like:

• the Greenhouse Gas Protocol,
• the US Climate Action Partnership, and
• the Green Power Market Development Group.

WRI Corporate Partnerships

Sometimes we are asked how we select our partners and the work that we might do.

The answer is that in our approach to corporate partnerships, our aim is to be mission driven, non-partisan, and independent. We are not a consulting organization, and we enter into contractual relationships on an exceptional basis and only if they are driven by our program objectives.

To ensure the quality and independence of our substantive work, our policy analyses, recommendations and publications are subject to internal and external peer review.

Because corporations are regulated entities and exert influence on policy-making, we are especially sensitive to public perception about the influence of corporate funding on the research conducted by non-profit think-tanks, and we review each relationship carefully.

WRI does not accept corporate funding that is restricted to specific policy research reports that issue recommendations for government policy. However, we do partner with private sector entities and others to develop joint policy recommendations on key issues.