Najib signed RM22m cheques using illegal funds including for Umno, publicity and social media, cop tells High Court in 1MDB trialOCTOBER 12 — This year is the 41st anniversary of the World Resources Institute . It was founded by Gus Speth in 1982 in Washington, DC.
In its early years, WRI was one of the first organisations – if not the first – to recognise that man had to be taken into account to have any lasting success in dealing with environmental problems.“You have to harmonise the interests of man and nature in order for either to succeed,” said its former head of the Environmental Protection Agency and WRI Board chair, Bill Ruckelshaus.
In 2014, WRI was already providing ongoing analysis and data on the fires through Global Forest Watch-Fires, an online platform for monitoring and responding to forest and land fires in South-east Asia using near real-time information. “The causes of fires and haze in Southeast Asia are complex and difficult to address. For many decades these fires have been used to clear land for agricultural expansion into forests and peatlands, and as a tool in conflict between companies and communities over land. Over the past two years, especially high concentrations of fires in Riau Province, Indonesia, have taken a deep toll, in terms of human health, environmental degradation, and economic damage.