Publications
The Access Initiative (TAI)
Ensuring that citizens have the right and ability to influence decisions about their natural resources.
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Fighting for Clean Air Around the Globe: Air Quality Workshop Outcome Document
by -From April 11–13, 2018, WRI’s Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, OpenAQ, and WRI’s Governance Center, in its role as secretariat of The Access Initiative, hosted a workshop on air quality with 15 civil society experts from...
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Thirsting for Justice
Transparency and Poor People’s Struggle for Clean Water in Indonesia, Mongolia, and Thailand
by and -Industrial facilities release upwards of 400 million tons of toxic pollutants into the world’s waters each year. Yet secrecy around the amount and type of chemicals that companies discharge is still the norm, especially in Asia. Contaminated water threatens the region’s poorest communities—those...
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Environmental Democracy Index
by and -This technical note describes the methods of the Environmental Democracy Index.
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A Seat at the Table
Including the Poor in Decisions for Development and Environment
by and -This report closely examines access rights to environmental decision making in four countries: Cameroon, Paraguay, Philippines,
and Sri Lanka.
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Voice and Choice
Opening the Door To Environmental Democracy
by , , , , and -Voice and Choice finds that governments have made significant progress in establishing the legal infrastructure of rights and opportunities for “access”. Constitutions and laws now guarantee freedom of information in more than 69 countries. Many governments have enacted administrative processes...
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Assessing Access to Information, Participation, and Justice for the Environment
A Guide
by and -Contains the tools to assess implementation of several access principles as they relate to environmental decision-making—access to information, access to participation, access to justice, and capacity-building, with accompanying instructional text.
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Closing the Gap
Information, participation, and justice in decision-making for the environment
by , , and -Addresses the status of access to information, participation, and justice in nine countries -- Chile, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, and the United States.
