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  • environmental democracy
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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

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

A New Strategy to Improve Water Quality—One Targeted Watershed at a Time

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
More than 15,000 streams, rivers, and lakes are too polluted with nutrient runoff to support wildlife, be enjoyed recreationally, or serve as a drinking water source. Photo credit: USDA
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
Initiatives
This website serves as an information portal about eutrophication—the over-enrichment of water by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus—a leading threat to water quality around the world. Explore our interactive map and learn more.

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

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
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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

Can Nutrient Trading Shrink the Gulf of Mexico's Dead Zone?

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
Dead fish resulting from toxins or oxygen depletion in Lake Binder, Iowa. Photo credit: Dr. Jennifer L. Graham, U.S. Geological Survey
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset