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Freedom of Information Not Enough to Hold Governments Accountable on Environment

June 5, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

While many national governments have made real progress in honoring their 1992 Rio Earth Summit commitments to better include the public in environmental decisions, a new book released here today in honor of World Environment Day finds that all the countries studied have fallen short in some aspect.

MEDIA ADVISORY: Book Launch and Panel Discussion - Voice and Choice: Opening the Door to Environmental Democracy

May 23, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

WHAT: In honor of

MEDIA ADVISORY: Lunch Panel to Discuss Climate and Trade Links

May 19, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

WHAT: The World Resources Institute and the Peterson Institute for International Economics will hold a briefing to release Leveling the Carbon Playing Field, a timely book on the linkages between climate change and trade policy.

Food Price Crisis Triggers Questions about Global Food Security

By Zachary Sugg on April 25, 2008

Skyrocketing food prices have triggered riots across the developing world and forced the world’s largest food aid agency to confront a $500 million deficit. The media are focused on short-term consequences, but there are also concerns about the long-term forecast for global food security, poverty, and hunger.

Franchise Model Takes On Infectious Disease in Africa

By Nate Kommers on April 8, 2008

The latest What Works case study from NextBillion looks at a business that is fighting infectious disease in Ghana by providing much-needed health care to the base of the economic pyramid.

What Works: CareShop Ghana. Improving Access to Essential Drugs Through Conversion Financing

Julia Tran, Joel Segrè

April 8, 2008

The 10 Big Questions For Corporate Forest Product Purchasing

By Ruth Nogueron on April 3, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Corporate procurement managers are increasingly looking for ways to ensure that wood and paper-based products are environmentally and socially sound. The WRI/WBCSD procurement guide being released today is a toolbox to help them.

New Toolbox Demystifies Green Forest Product Purchasing

April 3, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Corporate managers will now get powerful help with today’s release of a “Guide to the Guides” - a toolbox that helps them understand and find the best advice on how to purchase products originating from the world’s forests.

Coastal Populations Losing Livelihoods to Polluted Waters

April 2, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Coastal communities worldwide are witnessing their livelihoods choked by agricultural and industrial pollution, according to findings released today by the World Resources Institute.

Wood and Paper-Based Product Procurement: 10 Things You Should Know

April 1, 2008

Coastal Eutrophic and Hypoxic Areas of Africa

March 27, 2008

This map identifies only 20 eutrophic coastal zones in all of Africa, of which 8 have documented hypoxia and 12 are areas of concern.

Unfair Forestry Policies Abet Poverty, Finds New Study

March 13, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Unfair government policies fail to benefit poor people who live in the forests of many developing countries. Those same policies fail even to protect forests, according to a new study.

Leading Companies Responding to Ecosystem Degradation

March 10, 2008
Location: Montreux, Switzerland

Corporate Ecosystem Services Review road-tested by Akzo Nobel,

BC Hydro, Mondi, Rio Tinto, and Syngenta

Greenwatch Uganda Champions Information Rights

By Lalanath de Silva on March 4, 2008
Location: Uganda

Laws alone are not enough to ensure environmental protection. Civil society organizations often play a critical role in bringing those laws to life. In Uganda, Greenwatch has done exactly that for the country’s laws on access to environmental information, the first of which passed in 1998.

Video - Foresters Collude with Merchants: Coercing the Mayor to Cut the Forest

By Jesse Ribot on February 12, 2008
Location: Senegal

These films show how Senegal’s Forestry service, forest merchants, and other government agents are blocking local governments from playing their legal role in forest management and use.

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