The EU Deforestation Regulation is an important measure in the effort to reduce global forest loss. The world is currently losing 10 football fields of tropical forests every minute. Given that the EUs imports of commodities account for 13-16% of global deforestation, despite representing only 7% of the worlds population, its environmental footprint and consumer influence are disproportionately large.
WRI
World Resources Institute
NGO · Netherlands · EU Transparency Register 581250215524-23
5
positions filed
in the 326 files tracked
5
legislative files
of 326 tracked
2
with a full position paper
attached to a submission
Counts here are a floor, never a total: they cover the 326 consultation files tracked so far (29,503 submissions, mostly 2025–26), so an organization's real filing history is larger, not smaller.
Who they are
Among the 126 think tanks and research institutions on this site, they rank #22 by legislative files engaged — a count of participation, not a measure of influence.
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declared lobbying FTE
self-declared
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declared costs / yr (floor)
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EP accreditations
as declared to the register
2015
in the register since
Declares membership of
- IUCN – International Union for Conservation of Nature https://www.iucn.org/our-union/members/
- Global Commons Alliance https://globalcommonsalliance.org/
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Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 30 Aug 2026).
- Register category
- Think tanks and research institutions
- Head office
- Washington, United states
- EU office
- The Hague
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 30 Aug 2026); cost bands are floors, not audited totals. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
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Their record over time
World Resources Institute filed 5 positions between 11 Jul 2024 and 29 Jul 2026, across 5 of the 326 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 2 times.
2024 · 1 filed2025 · 1 filed2026 · 3 filed
What they argued
WRI Ocean Program strongly supports the European Commissions objective to improve coherence, effectiveness and implementation of EU ocean governance through an EU Ocean Act. The Act offers a major opportunity to strengthen maritime spatial planning (MSP), make sea basin coordination operational, establish a durable governance foundation for ocean observation, and reduce fragmentation and duplication in planning and…
The World Resources Institute (WRI) believes the European Ocean Research and Innovation (R&I) Strategy presents an important opportunity to align Europes world-leading ocean science capabilities with the practical governance, investment and implementation challenges required to achieve a sustainable, resilient and productive ocean.
The World Resources Institute (WRI) is a global research organisation working to improve peoples lives, protect nature and halt climate change. The WRI Polsky Center for the Global Energy Transition delivers pragmatic, scalable and urgently needed solutions to achieve a clean, abundant, affordable and reliable energy future.
The revised LULUCF Regulation represented a welcome improvement from the previous version, as it established an EU target for CO2 removals in land and forests for 2030, with mandatory targets for each Member State. However, WRI would argue that the overall target in the next version of the LULUCF regulation to take effect from 2025 should be more ambitious than the current 310 MtCO2.
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Turns up on the same files
Organizations that also filed on at least two of the same consultations. A shared interest in the same dossiers — not evidence of coordination, and we do not suggest any.
- IDEE ECONOMICHE www.idee-economiche.it · 3 files in common
- WWF European Policy Office · 3 files in common
- Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) · 3 files in common
- Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V. · 2 files in common
- Confederazione Nazionale Coldiretti · 2 files in common
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