Eliot Metzger

Senior Associate, Business Center

Bio

Eliot is a Senior Associate in WRI’s Business Center. He manages research on innovative business solutions to global environmental challenges like climate change or the water-energy nexus. He works closely with WRI’s corporate partners to develop, test, and refine practical tools, including a sustainability SWOT tool that can translate big trends into risks or opportunities to create new value. This involves collaboration among leaders from multiple industries to prove new concepts and tackle environmental challenges that are bigger than any one company.

Prior to re-joining WRI in 2007 (Eliot was a WRI intern in 2004), he worked at Eastern Research Group as a consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. There, he helped develop and execute a variety of clean energy and water efficiency initiatives, including EPA’s energy and environmental management systems and WaterSense program.

Eliot holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins University, and Bachelor’s degrees in Environmental Science and Business from the University of San Francisco, where he was a Goldwater Scholar.

Blog Posts

Is Your Business Fit for Tomorrow’s Markets? How to Do the Math
by Eliot Metzger and Katie Pastor - August 15, 2017
As populations grow and emerging markets industrialize, companies face the long-term challenge of meeting surging consumer demand while minimizing environmental damage. A first step toward solving this dilemma is for each business to evaluate its own unique risks at a time when unchecked consumption is unsustainable.
Is the Tesla Model 3 Our Ride to a Sustainable Future?
by Eliot Metzger and Alyssa Fischer - July 11, 2017
Electric vehicles are cleaner, but they're only part of the climate solution.
Unchecked Consumption Is the Elephant in the Boardroom
by Eliot Metzger, Samantha Putt del Pino and Lindsey Longendyke - March 24, 2017
Many businesses measure growth by selling more stuff to more people. But in a resource-constrained future, companies can't thrive under this model.
From Risk to Resilience: It's Time for Business to Collaborate on Climate Change
by Moushumi Chaudhury and Eliot Metzger - March 13, 2017
WRI experts in business and climate resilience discuss how firms around the world are adapting to the megatrend of climate change.
Solving the Fresh Water Crisis
by Paul Reig and Eliot Metzger - June 22, 2016
Cities and women can be key players in managing future water demand, including reducing risks from the fastest-growing water users--energy and industrial activities.
4 Corporate Carbon Pricing Do’s and Don’ts
by Eliot Metzger - November 30, 2015
There has never been a better time to ask: what are you doing to price carbon?

Hundreds of companies are now pricing carbon, and hundreds more expect to in the next couple years. An internal price on carbon is...
Who Is Speaking on Climate Policy for Your Company?
by Kevin Moss and Eliot Metzger - October 29, 2015
Journalists, investors and more are increasingly asking companies: How are your trade associations influencing climate policy?
How Do Companies Put a Price on Carbon?
by Eliot Metzger and Lindsey Longendyke - September 24, 2015
A new draft guide answers questions like: What do CEOs need to know about carbon pricing? What does corporate leadership on carbon pricing look like? And what can businesses learn from those that already have internal prices on carbon?
Analyzing Outcomes from the UN Climate Summit
by Jennifer Morgan, David Waskow, Nigel Sizer, Eliot Metzger, Samantha Putt del Pino, Holger Dalkmann, Benoit Lefevre, Alex Doukas and Clifford Polycarp - September 23, 2014
The UN Climate Summit brought together more than 125 heads of state and government officials—the largest-ever climate meeting of world leaders. Leaders clearly demonstrated their understanding that the impacts of climate change are real and costly, and that they no longer have to choose between economic growth and climate action—they go hand-in-hand.

WRI’s experts were in New York for all the action. While the outcomes from the Summit are still evolving, here’s our first look at progress made and next steps.
2 Questions for World Business Leaders at the UN Climate Summit
by Eliot Metzger and Nate Aden - September 18, 2014
When CEOs and heads of state meet on September 23 at the UN Climate Summit in New York, two questions will guide the discussion.