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Insights

Deforestation Threatens the Mekong, but New Trees Are Growing in Surprising Places

  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Forests
Communities like this one in Vietnam are beginning to restore their trees, especially on farms and in villages. Photo by Terry Sunderland/CIFOR.
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Forests
Initiatives

Energy Access Explorer

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INFOGRAPHIC: Experience the Unequal Ways Communities and Companies Get Land Rights

  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Insights

Forest Watcher Brings Data Straight to Environmental Defenders

  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
  • Equity & Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Rangers checking Forest Watcher. Photo by Lilian Pintea
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
  • Equity & Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Can We Restore 350 Million Hectares by 2030?

  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • agriculture
Woman in African field
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • agriculture

Environmental Justice and Democracy Failures at the Heart of Flint’s Water Crisis

  • Equity & Governance
  • Freshwater
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • Water Quality
  • water risk
Water plant in Flint, Mich.
  • Equity & Governance
  • Freshwater
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • Water Quality
  • water risk
Research

Going in the Right Direction?

Landscape Restoration—A Winning Strategy in a Warmer World

  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
Costa Rica has built its economy by rebuilding forests. Photo by Geoff Gallice/Flickr
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
Insights

A Shared Vision for Thailand's Solar Energy Development

  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
Lopburi solar power plant in central Thailand is the largest solar photovoltaic project in the world. (Photo credit: Asian Development Bank)
  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
Insights

How Civil Society Groups Improved Electricity in Thailand

  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • electric grid
  • environmental democracy
  • Energy Access
  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • electric grid
  • environmental democracy
  • Energy Access

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
Data

Uganda: Percentage of Households That Cannot Afford Soap, 2002

  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
Data

Uganda: Percentage of Households Relying on Open Sources of Drinking Water, 2002

  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • Freshwater
  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • Freshwater