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    Forests
    Europe
    News
    May 16, 2023

    STATEMENT: Landmark European Union Deforestation Regulation is Formally Adopted, Will Enter into Force 

    • deforestation
    • Forest Legality
    • forest monitoring
    • forest products
    • deforestation
    • Forest Legality
    • forest monitoring
    • forest products
    Forests
    Latin America
    Insights
    November 14, 2022

    What Could a “Bioeconomy” in the Amazon Look Like?

    • Forests
    • forest products
    • Forest Legality
    Aerial view of Amazon River
    • Forests
    • forest products
    • Forest Legality
    Forests
    Latin America
    Insights
    June 17, 2022

    How Tracking Timber Helps Prevent Illegal Logging and Deforestation

    • Forest Legality
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • illegal logging
    Worker with hardhat stands in front of timber pile at the Luke Paper Mill and Woodlands site.
    • Forest Legality
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • illegal logging
    Ocean
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    14 World Leaders Commit to a Sustainable Ocean Economy

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    A seaweed farmer in Nusa Penida, Indonesia. Photo by pradeep_kmpk14/iStock
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Climate
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Important Countries Identify Opportunities for Climate Action

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    A factory worker assembles solar panels in Dezhou, China. Photo by Cultura Creative RF/Alamy
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Cities
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Cities Prioritize Public Transportation and Cycling in Response to COVID-19

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Health & Road Safety
    Bikers are protected by road barriers in India. Photo by Rajeev Malagi/WRI India.
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Health & Road Safety
    Food
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Nearly 200 Food Suppliers Commit to Cut Food Loss and Waste in Half

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    A chef composts vegetable scraps. Photo by stockstudioX/iStock
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Equity & Governance
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    12 Governments in Latin America and the Caribbean Ratify Escazú Agreement

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Climate activist in Mexico City, Mexico. Photo by Diego Rodriguez via 350.org/Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Cities
    Latin America
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Mexico Adds Fundamental Right to Mobility to Its Constitution

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Urban Mobility
    Bikers, skateboarders and cars coexist in Merida, Mexico. Photo by Megapress/Alamy
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Urban Mobility
    Energy
    Asia
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Indonesia and the Philippines Take Action to Accelerate Clean Energy Transition

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Government-installed solar panels in the village of Weepatando in Sumba island, Indonesia. Photo by Asian Development Bank/Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Cities
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    Countries and Cities Embrace a New UN Decade for Road Safety

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Health & Road Safety
    A woman paints pedestrian lanes on a road in São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Victor Moriyama/WRI Brasil
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    • Health & Road Safety
    Freshwater
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    World Bank Unlocks $2 Billion for Integrated Green and Gray Infrastructure

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Coastal town in Silhouette, Seychelles. Photo by Ian Badenhorst/Unsplash
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Cities
    Asia
    Outcomes
    April 6, 2021

    India’s 15th Finance Commission Supports Air Quality and Forest Protection

    • Top Outcome: 2020
    A forest in West Bengali, India. Photo by Suprakash Shown/Unsplash
    • Top Outcome: 2020
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    October 15, 2020

    Mongolia Shows How to Fight for Environmental Justice

    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • pollution
    Mongolia
    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • pollution
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Insights
    November 13, 2019

    To Fix City Slums, Don't Just Knock Them Down: Involve Residents in Upgrading Efforts

    • Cities
    • Towards a More Equal City
    • housing
    • poverty
    • public participation
    View of one of the many informal settlements the city of Surabaya, Indonesia has upgraded since the 1960s with input and participation from residents. Photo by Peter Edelman.
    • Cities
    • Towards a More Equal City
    • housing
    • poverty
    • public participation
    Equity & Governance
    Asia Latin America North America Europe
    Insights
    July 25, 2019

    As India Revises State Climate Plans, Who Should Have a Voice?

    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • climate policy
    • Climate Equity
    • public participation
    Kids carrying water in the Indian countryside. Photo by Mr. Fink/Flickr
    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • climate policy
    • Climate Equity
    • public participation
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    Insights
    September 27, 2018

    12 Countries Sign Historic Agreement Guaranteeing Environmental Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean

    • Equity & Governance
    • Sustainable Development Goal 16
    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • human rights
    • public participation
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    • Sustainable Development Goal 16
    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • human rights
    • public participation
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Latin America
    Insights
    June 13, 2018

    What if Citizens Set City Budgets? An Experiment That Captivated the World—Participatory Budgeting—Might Be Abandoned in its Birthplace

    • Towards a More Equal City
    • Cities
    • environmental democracy
    • public participation
    • Towards a More Equal City
    • Cities
    • environmental democracy
    • public participation

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