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    Africa Latin America environmental democracy land use
    Forests
    Asia Africa Latin America
    Insights
    February 9, 2021

    How Local People Are Mapping Billions of Trees on Their Land

    • land use
    • restoration
    • landscapes
    • climate impacts
    • Forests
    Woman stading next to a forest in Rwanda
    • land use
    • restoration
    • landscapes
    • climate impacts
    • Forests
    Cities
    Africa Latin America
    Insights
    December 18, 2020

    Developing Cities Need Cash. Land Value Capture Can Help

    • Cities
    • infrastructure
    • land use
    • development
    • Finance
    • Urban Development
    People walk on and around an outdoor escalator at a train station in Shenzhen.
    • Cities
    • infrastructure
    • land use
    • development
    • Finance
    • Urban Development
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Insights
    September 16, 2019

    For Rural Communities, Protecting Land Is a Better Investment than Deforestation

    • Food
    • Forests
    • land use
    • agriculture
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    In India's Narmada District, legal recognition of communities' land rights have enabled villages to invest in sustainable, more productive land management. Photo by...
    • Food
    • Forests
    • land use
    • agriculture
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    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
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    News
    July 11, 2018

    COMUNICADO DE PRENSA: Una nueva investigación revela un campo de juego desigual entre las comunidades y las empresas que compiten por los derechos sobre las tierras

    • land use
    • commodities
    • Forests
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • land use
    • commodities
    • Forests
    • land rights
    • 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
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    Insights
    February 26, 2018

    4 Environmental Activists Are Murdered Every Week. A New Agreement Could Help in Latin America and the Caribbean

    • Equity & Governance
    • Sustainable Development Goal 16
    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • environmental justice
    • public participation
    Rally in a Colombian town
    • Equity & Governance
    • Sustainable Development Goal 16
    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • environmental justice
    • public participation
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    Insights
    February 26, 2018

    4 activistas ambientales son asesinados cada semana. Un nuevo acuerdo regional podría mejorar la situación en América Latina y el Caribe

    • Equity & Governance
    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • environmental justice
    Rally in a Colombian town
    • Equity & Governance
    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • environmental justice
    Equity & Governance
    Africa Latin America
    Insights
    June 26, 2017

    Sophie's Choice for Communities: Sacrificing Land Rights to Gain Security

    • land use
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Brazilian protester
    • land use
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Forests
    Africa
    Outcomes
    December 22, 2016

    Civil Society Organizations Use Public Information to Protect Forests

    • Top Outcome: 2016
    Rangers in Kibale National Park, Uganda, learn to use the Forest Watcher app developed by the Jane Goodall Institute, Google, and Global Forest Watch. Photo by Lilian Pintea/Jane Goodall Institute
    • Top Outcome: 2016
    Forests
    Africa
    Outcomes
    December 22, 2016

    Democratic Republic of the Congo Enables Forest-based Communities to Secure Land Rights

    • Top Outcome: 2016
    Community consultation in Lukolela, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo: Ollivier Girard/CIFOR, Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2016
    Cities
    Latin America
    Outcomes
    December 22, 2016

    Brazilian Cities Begin to Reshape Urban Areas Through Sustainable Mobility Plans

    • Top Outcome: 2016
    Commuters use Bus Rapid Transit system in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Photo by EMBARQ Brasil, Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2016
    Energy
    Latin America
    Outcomes
    December 22, 2016

    Mexico and Mexico City Introduce Energy Efficiency Standards for Buildings

    • Top Outcome: 2016
    High-rise construction in Mexico City. Photo by Lars Plougmann, Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2016
    Forests
    Africa
    Outcomes
    December 22, 2016

    African Countries Commit to Restore More Than 63 Million Hectares of Degraded Land

    • Top Outcome: 2016
    Farmers and officials at a tree nursery in Nyandarua County, Kenya. Photo by Aaron Minnick/WRI, Flickr
    • Top Outcome: 2016
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America North America
    Insights
    December 9, 2016

    Localizing Open Government Reforms

    • Cities
    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • human rights
    Cícero Pompeu de Toledo stadium
    • Cities
    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • human rights
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    Insights
    March 8, 2016

    Death of Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres Underscores the Need for Environmental Democracy

    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • poverty
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Berta Cáceres works with the people of Rio Blanco to set up a road blockade in protest of a dam.
    • environmental democracy
    • human rights
    • land rights
    • poverty
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Africa
    Insights
    March 5, 2015

    Q&A with Alda Salomao: Natural Gas Project Threatens Community Land in Mozambique

    • environmental democracy
    • land rights
    • fossil fuels
    • natural resources
    Rural women on their way to the market. Photo by Ton Rulkens/Flickr
    • environmental democracy
    • land rights
    • fossil fuels
    • natural resources
    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

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