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    Cities
    Outcomes
    December 15, 2017

    New Urban Agenda Adopted by 167 Countries Incorporates Safe Mobility and Affordability

    • Top Outcome: 2017
    Quito, Ecuador, hosted the UN Habitat III Conference that endorsed the New Urban Agenda. Photo by Santiago Ron/Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2017
    Forests
    Asia Latin America
    Outcomes
    December 15, 2017

    Brazil and Indonesia Enact Landscape Restoration Policies

    • Top Outcome: 2017
    Shade-grown coffee in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/CIFOR, Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2017
    Climate
    Outcomes
    December 15, 2017

    Countries Commit to Improve Transparency and Public Engagement on Climate and Natural Resources

    • Equity & Governance
    • Top Outcome: 2017
    Community meeting in Tanzania. Photo by uusc4all/Flickr
    • Equity & Governance
    • Top Outcome: 2017
    Freshwater
    Asia
    Outcomes
    December 15, 2017

    Chinese Cities and Indian State Adopt Innovative Approaches to Waste and Wastewater

    • Top Outcome: 2017
    Sewage treatment plant in Jaipur, India. Photo by Asian Development Bank/Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2017
    Food
    Outcomes
    December 15, 2017

    Producers and Retailers Take Landmark Steps to Reduce Food Loss and Waste

    • Top Outcome: 2017
    Shopper inspects a product date label. Photo by Tyler Olson/Shutterstock
    • Top Outcome: 2017
    Business
    Outcomes
    December 15, 2017

    More Than 300 Companies Commit to Set Science-Based Emissions Reduction Targets

    • Top Outcome: 2017
    Installing solar panels in England. Photo by Kristian Buus/Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2017
    Cities
    Latin America
    Outcomes
    December 15, 2017

    Brazilian Law Sets Standards for Compact, Connected, Coordinated Social Housing

    • Top Outcome: 2017
    A child shows the key to her family’s new Minha Casa, Minha Vida house in São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Assis Cavalcante/Prefeitura de Sorocaba
    • Top Outcome: 2017
    Cities
    Asia
    Outcomes
    December 15, 2017

    Dozens of Pilot Cities in China Advance Innovations in Sustainable Mobility

    • Top Outcome: 2017
    Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit in Zhuzhou, China. Photo by Daizong Liu/WRI
    • Top Outcome: 2017
    Equity & Governance
    Data
    June 20, 2017

    Logging, Mining, And Agricultural Concessions Data Transparency: A Survey Of 14 Forested Countries

    • Forests
    • environmental democracy
    • Forests
    • environmental democracy
    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

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