Leading others to a better future with sustainable impact requires that we first walk the path ourselves. Here’s how You can help lead.
Evidence-Based Solutions
Our Mission
We develop impactful campaigns that influence others, with messaging designed to build advocacy for common sense solutions that achieve effective results.
Our Methodology
We leverage the powerful potential of a market-driven economy to foster corporate social responsibility and a more efficient use of natural resources.
We are PR for Planet Earth
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We launch initiatives that spur decision-makers into action. We encourage participation and sponsorship in our initiatives from like-minded organizations and individuals. And we welcome opportunities to launch entirely new initiatives that echo our mission.
- 1Ignite a Movement
- 2Get inspired
Learn from others. Sign up for one of Eneref Institute’s online Web Forums or in-person Seminars.
- 3Lead Others
- 4Influence Cause
Distribute our Advocacy Reports to influence better outcomes and cause someone to act in favor of people and planet before profit.
- 5Drive Change
Understanding the Market Obstacles to a healthy planet gives you the power to help drive change.
Eneref Impact Campaigns are designed to make headlines, create a common understanding of how to think about an issue and get people to take action. We look to cast issues in a different light. We encourage the understanding of measures required for conservation, as well as the propagation of important information through the media. Eneref uses campaigns to cooperate with governing agencies and organizations in developing educational and public awareness reports.
ENEREF INSTITUTE INITIATIVES
What we advocate for

Energy Initiative
Energy supply is the largest contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, GHG can be reduced with energy efficiency improvements. Learn more.
Land Initiative
The shift to urban societies is a global trend that increases greenhouse gas emissions. Sustainable flooring systems can reduce our carbon footprint Learn more.
Building Initiative
Rapid economic development and urbanization is propelling large building activity. Buildings are critical to the global challenge of sustainable development. Learn more.
Industry Initiative
Industrial activities create all the products that satisfy human needs. An absolute reduction of industry emissions requires a broad set of mitigation options. Learn more.
Transport Initiative
Transport can be an agent of sustained urban development that prioritizes equity, accessibility, traffic safety, and time-savings for the poor while reducing emissions Learn more.
Water Initiative
Approximately over 2 billion people face water shortages in over 40 countries. Extensive global water withdrawal limits supplies for various human needs. Learn more.
Cities Initiative
The scale and speed of urbanization will require a massive build-up of infrastructure, a key driver of GHG emissions across multiple sectors. Learn more.
Food Initiative
Food production generates nearly a quarter of all GHG emissions. Meat and dairy consumption – foods with outsized climate impacts – is on the rise. Learn more.
SOLUTIONS VALIDATED
TESTIMONIALS IN OUR REPORTS
When you don't control outside air in buildings, it leads to significant temperature and humidity control problems for guests and increases the chance of bacterial growth.
Terry Smith
- VP of Engineering Global Design Strategies at Marriott International
We would be more comfortable. We’d reduce our carbon footprint. There’s really no downside
William Goetzler
- Lead author of the report Research & Development Opportunities for Joining Technologies in HVAC&R and Navigant Managing Director
If the costs were the same, then I would hope we would all have inverter-driven variable speed technology systems because we’d save energy and operating cost.
William Goetzler
- Lead author of the report Research & Development Opportunities for Joining Technologies in HVAC&R and Navigant Managing Director.
Sensitivity to congestion is the determinate factor in how people organize in and around cities.
How Congestion Shapes Cities:
Fewer or no work-related interruptions add to a general feeling of wellbeing.
Telework, Productivity and Wellbeing - Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society, The University of Melbourne
Working away from the office engenders a more positive attitude towards work
Telework, Productivity and Wellbeing - Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society, The University of Melbourne
Teleworkers feel ‘more in control’ of their work, which in turn eases work-related stress.
Telework, Productivity and Wellbeing - Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society, The University of Melbourne
Family and work life can be better balanced when working away from the office.
Telework, Productivity and Wellbeing - Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society, The University of Melbourne
Mexico City adds two cars to its roads for every person it adds to its population.
World Urbanization Prospects The 2011 Revision - United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
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Only 3% of organization allows all or most employees to work some regular paid hours at home on a regular basis.
2014 National Study of Employers - Families and Work Institute
28.7% of vehicle-miles traveled in the US are to and from work.
2009 National Household Travel Survey - U.S. Department of Transportation
The average commute time in the US is 25.4 minutes; 50.8 minutes per day, 17.7 hours per month.
Transportation Energy Data Book: Edition 33 - U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
There are 232,137,000 light vehicles (cars and light trucks) in the U.S.
Transportation Energy Data Book: Edition 33 - U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Gasoline has been responsible for about two-thirds of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions over the last 20 years.
Transportation Energy Data Book: Edition 33 - U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Transportation in the US accounts for the largest share of greenhouse gas emissions.
Transportation Energy Data Book: Edition 33 - U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
In 2013 the cost of operating a car, including insurance, depreciation and finance charge is $6,059 per year (US).
Motor Vehicle Facts and Figures 2013 - Ward’s Communications (original data from AAA “Your Driving Costs.”)
The comprehensive cost of each unintentional death from motor-vehicle crashes (not including real income not received) is $4,538,000.
Estimating the Costs of Unintentional Injuries - National Safety Council
The nature and pace of observed climate changes pose severe risks for our national security.
National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change - Center for Naval Analyses Military Advisory Board
America needed to spend at least $255 billion per year over the next half-century on infrastructure to keep the system in good repair.
Transportation for Tomorrow - National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission
Water must never be a reason for rivalry or competition. Water must be a source of cooperation and of shared security and prosperity
Jan Eliasson
- United Nations Deputy Secretary-General
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If carbon is the currency of climate change, water is the teeth. The ecosystems on which life itself is based – our food security, energy sustainability, public health, jobs, cities – are all at risk because of how water is managed today.
Jim Yong Kim
- President The World Bank Group
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We should never face the scenario of the last single drop of water in our lifetime and for generations to come.
Cyril Ramaphosa
- President, H. E. South Africa
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Having skylights in the dealership will allow customers to see the car’s true color.
Jane Harrington
- manager of Global Color Styling for PPG Industries.
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What is clear is that investments are welcome if they respect institutions, if they respect the environment and health
Lina Pohl
- El Salvador’s environment minister
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Globally there is a growing questioning of mining as an economic development engine. I think it definitely strengthens the voice of communities that are raising the questions
Keith Slack
- Global program director for extractive industries at Oxfam America in Washington
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It’s a wonderful moment for the first country to evaluate the costs and benefits of metallic mining and say no
Andrés McKinley
- Mining and water specialist at Central American University
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Mining is an industry whose primary and first victim is water
Andrés McKinley
- Mining and water specialist at Central American University
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Today in El Salvador, water won out over gold
Johnny Wright Sol
- Legislator from the center-right Arena party
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Water must never be a reason for rivalry or competition. Water must be a source of cooperation and of shared security and prosperity
Jan Eliasson
- United Nations Deputy Secretary-General
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If the wars of this century were fought over oil, the wars of the next century will be fought over water -- unless we change our approach to managing this precious and vital resource.
Ismail Serageldin
- World Bank Vice President for Environmental Affairs
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