Stories: Governance & Access

What are the top environmental and development issues that will shape 2012?

This post was written with Sarah Lupberger, Project Coordinator with WRI’s Electricity Governance In

At the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP-17) in Durban – “the longest COP ever” – Parties agreed to establish an Ad

With all its complex processes and acronyms, it’s easy to forget that the international climate change negotiations are supposed to lead to changes on the ground.

From November 28 to December 9, negotiators will gather in Durban, South Africa, for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP17 meeting.

This piece was written with Catarina Freitas, a Brazilian legal intern with WRI’s Institutions and Governance Program.

An official report released by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE, formerly MMS) and the Coast Gua

20 years after the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, “Rio+20” will review progress on and reaffirm a global commitment to the policies designed to foster e

Now twice delayed during the public comment and rule-drafting periods, the U.S.

Though the next Earth Summit, Rio+20, will take place next June, few governments have started to seriously assess their progress towards achieving the