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RELEASE: Major New Index Ranks Environmental Democracy in 70 Countries

  • environmental democracy
  • public participation
  • environmental democracy
  • public participation

ADVISORY: Launch of New Online Index to Measure Environmental Democracy

  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
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オバマ大統領の2025年GHG削減目標—野心的しかし達成は可能

  • forest monitoring
  • environmental democracy
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
写真撮影: Mingia Zhou/Flickr.
  • forest monitoring
  • environmental democracy
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change

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

Q&A with Mark Robinson: The Role of Good Governance in Sustainable Development

  • Climate Resilience
  • environmental democracy
  • public participation
  • low carbon development
A governance lens offers a powerful impetus for promoting reforms in policies and programs for sustainable development. Photo by CCAFS/Flickr
  • Climate Resilience
  • environmental democracy
  • public participation
  • low carbon development

3 Opportunities to Expand Environmental Democracy

  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
A team of researchers in North Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Douglas Sheil/Center for International Forestry Research
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • development
  • environmental democracy
  • freedom of information

New Tool Reveals How Jamaica’s Development Projects Impact People and Planet

  • environmental democracy
  • human rights
  • protected areas
  • public participation
Cataboo, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica. Photo by Sergel Mutovkin/Flickr
  • environmental democracy
  • human rights
  • protected areas
  • public participation

Obama’s Greenhouse Gas Target for 2025 is Ambitious—But Achievable

  • environmental democracy
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
Emissions pollution in Fuyuan, Yunnan, China. Photo Credit: FLICKR/Mingia Zhou
  • environmental democracy
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
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New Technology Can Help Ensure that Protected Areas Stay Protected

  • data
  • deforestation
  • mapping
The world has more than 177,000 protected areas, all of which require proper management to prevent harmful and illegal activities. Photo credit: Garrett Ziegler, Flickr
  • data
  • deforestation
  • mapping

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
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New Palm Oil Production Maps Mark a Milestone in Transparency

  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • mapping
  • commodities
Most palm oil comes from Indonesia and Malaysia. Photo credit: Achmad Rabin Taim, Wikimedia Commons
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • mapping
  • commodities

What Will it Take to End the “Resource Curses?”

  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • natural resources
  • fossil fuels
  • environmental justice
  • land rights
Chad's oil fields continue to leach chemicals, create air pollution, and degrade Lake Chad. Photo credit: Carsen ten Brink, Flickr
  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • natural resources
  • fossil fuels
  • environmental justice
  • land rights
More than 70 percent of Samarinda's land is allocated to mining concessions. Photo credit: CIFOR, Flickr 2009
  • environmental democracy

New Map Documents Natural Resource Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • development
  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • land rights
  • Freshwater
A farmer stands amidst a rice farm in Burundi, Africa. Photo Credit: Flickr/IRRI Images
  • development
  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • land rights
  • Freshwater