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    Environmental Rights
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    Equity & Governance
    News
    May 20, 2015

    RELEASE: Major New Index Ranks Environmental Democracy in 70 Countries

    • environmental democracy
    • public participation
    • environmental democracy
    • public participation
    Equity & Governance
    News
    May 13, 2015

    ADVISORY: Launch of New Online Index to Measure Environmental Democracy

    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    February 18, 2015

    Q&A with Mark Robinson: The Role of Good Governance in Sustainable Development

    • Climate Resilience
    • environmental democracy
    • public participation
    • low carbon development
    A governance lens offers a powerful impetus for promoting reforms in policies and programs for sustainable development. Photo by CCAFS/Flickr
    • Climate Resilience
    • environmental democracy
    • public participation
    • low carbon development
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    December 23, 2014

    3 Opportunities to Expand Environmental Democracy

    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    A team of researchers in North Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Douglas Sheil/Center for International Forestry Research
    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    Forests
    Insights
    December 22, 2014

    Crossing the Digital Divide to Protect the Environment

    • Forests
    Internet access issues—including if and how communities can get online—hold huge implications for the uptake of digital tools.Photo by 世書 名付/ Flickr.
    • Forests
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    News
    November 20, 2014

    RELEASE: New Website Highlights Proposed Development Projects in Jamaica to Give People Better Access to Information and Improve Public Participation

    • development
    • environmental democracy
    • freedom of information
    • development
    • environmental democracy
    • freedom of information
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    Insights
    November 20, 2014

    New Tool Reveals How Jamaica’s Development Projects Impact People and Planet

    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • protected areas
    • public participation
    Cataboo, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica. Photo by Sergel Mutovkin/Flickr
    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • protected areas
    • public participation
    Climate
    Latin America
    Insights
    July 29, 2014

    What Does Environmental Democracy Look Like?

    • Energy
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • renewable energy
    Eight years ago, developers proposed a five-dam project on the Baker and Pascua Rivers in Patagonia, Chile. While they projected that the hydropower would produce 2,750 megawatts of power, the project would also flood 23 square miles of wilderness, jeopardizing the environment, local culture, and tourism of the region. Photo Credit: International Rivers/Flickr
    • Energy
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • renewable energy
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    June 23, 2014

    UNEP’s New Access to Information Policy Falls Short of True Transparency

    • Equity & Governance
    • Business
    • environmental democracy
    UNEP describes itself as “the voice for the environment within the United Nations system…acting as a catalyst, advocate, educator and facilitator to promote the wise use and sustainable development of the global environment.” Photo Credit: UN/Flickr
    • Equity & Governance
    • Business
    • environmental democracy
    Equity & Governance
    Africa
    Insights
    May 12, 2014

    What Will it Take to End the “Resource Curses?”

    • environmental democracy
    • extractive industries
    • natural resources
    • fossil fuels
    • environmental justice
    • land rights
    Chad's oil fields continue to leach chemicals, create air pollution, and degrade Lake Chad. Photo credit: Carsen ten Brink, Flickr
    • environmental democracy
    • extractive industries
    • natural resources
    • fossil fuels
    • environmental justice
    • land rights
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Insights
    March 17, 2014

    Struggles in East Kalimantan Underscore Need for Better Access to Environmental Information

    • environmental democracy
    More than 70 percent of Samarinda's land is allocated to mining concessions. Photo credit: CIFOR, Flickr 2009
    • environmental democracy
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    November 21, 2013

    Open Government Partnership: It’s Time for Deeper Engagement with the Environment Sector

    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • human rights
    A water irrigation project in Tamil Nadu, India. Photo credit: Michael Foley, Flickr
    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • human rights
    Equity & Governance
    Africa
    Insights
    May 31, 2013

    Improving Freedom of Information in Uganda

    • Equity & Governance
    • environmental democracy
    • extractive industries
    • freedom of information
    • fossil fuels
    • public participation
    • Equity & Governance
    • environmental democracy
    • extractive industries
    • freedom of information
    • fossil fuels
    • public participation
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Insights
    May 9, 2013

    New Jakarta Declaration Aims to Strengthen Rights to Environmental Information in Asia

    • Equity & Governance
    • environmental democracy
    • freedom of information
    • human rights
    • pollution
    • public participation
    • Equity & Governance
    • environmental democracy
    • freedom of information
    • human rights
    • pollution
    • public participation
    Insights
    April 19, 2013

    RELEASE: 14 Latin American and Caribbean Countries Adopt an Ambitious Plan of Action to Improve Access Rights in the Region

    • environmental justice
    • freedom of information
    • Equity & Governance
    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • freedom of information
    • Equity & Governance
    • environmental democracy
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    Insights
    April 15, 2013

    An Action Plan for Environmental Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean

    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • poverty
    • public participation
    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • poverty
    • public participation