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"Low income" is not "no income".

Spanning 90 million hectares, the forests of Indonesia constitute 10 percent of the world’s remaining tropical forests and provide

Potential “leveling” mechanisms to promote international harmonization of compliance costs.

Voice and Choice represents the culmination of several years of research, experimentation, and reform by governments, civil society organizations, and industry in implementing access to information, public participation, and access to justice in decisions that affect the environment.

This figure compares targets for legislative proposals of mandatory cap and trade programs for greenhouse gas emissions.

This figure depicts the cumulative greenhouse gas emissions budgets for the proposals over two time periods.

For a full discussion of underlying methodology, assumptions and references, please see http://www.wri.org/usclimatetargets. WRI does not endorse any of these bills.

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p>Worldwide, the number of people living on less than $1 per day-the international standard for extreme poverty-has dropped from 1.25 billion in 1990 to 986 million in 2004 (the latest year for which

Since 1990, poverty analysts have been using the $1 per day standard as the international poverty line for extreme poverty.

Although the world’s population is steadily urbanizing, the great majority of the world’s poor still live in rural areas.