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    Environmental Rights extractive industries
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    December 9, 2021

    Why Aren't Countries Reporting Environmental Defender Killings?

    • Environmental Rights
    • environmental justice
    • Climate
    • deforestation
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Cleared land in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
    • Environmental Rights
    • environmental justice
    • Climate
    • deforestation
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Podcasts
    March 8, 2021

    Empowering People Against Pollution

    • podcasts
    • pollution
    • Environmental Rights
    • podcasts
    • pollution
    • Environmental Rights
    Africa
    Insights
    May 1, 2019

    Goldman Prize Winner Alfred Brownell Stopped Palm Oil Companies from Destroying Liberian Forests

    • Environmental Rights
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • environmental justice
    • land rights
    • low carbon development
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Alfred Brownell on a street in Boston, Massachusetts
    • Environmental Rights
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • environmental justice
    • land rights
    • low carbon development
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    January 24, 2019

    Land Matters: How Securing Community Land Rights Can Slow Climate Change and Accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals

    • Environmental Rights
    • sustainable development goals
    • land rights
    • natural resources
    • Sustainable Development Goal 2
    • Sustainable Development Goal 5
    • Sustainable Development Goal 9
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • Sustainable Development Goal 11
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    indigenous-people-forest
    • Environmental Rights
    • sustainable development goals
    • land rights
    • natural resources
    • Sustainable Development Goal 2
    • Sustainable Development Goal 5
    • Sustainable Development Goal 9
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • Sustainable Development Goal 11
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Insights
    April 24, 2017

    The Man Who Stopped the Mine. Q&A with Prafulla Samantara, 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner

    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • extractive industries
    • human rights
    • natural resources
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Prafulla Samantara, 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize winner. Photo by Goldman Environmental Foundation
    • environmental democracy
    • environmental justice
    • extractive industries
    • human rights
    • natural resources
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    February 22, 2017

    Congress and Trump Gut Disclosure Rules for Fossil Fuel Foreign Payments

    • Finance
    • U.S. policy
    • extractive industries
    • fossil fuels
    • human rights
    • natural resources
    People in Nigerian village
    • Finance
    • U.S. policy
    • extractive industries
    • fossil fuels
    • human rights
    • natural resources
    Cities
    Insights
    September 28, 2015

    In Order to Solve Pollution, We Must First Solve Governance Challenges

    • Environmental Rights
    • Equity & Governance
    • environmental democracy
    • Air Quality
    • pollution
    • Freshwater
    • water risk
    Air pollution in China's Shaanxi Province. Photo by Gilad Rom/Flickr
    • Environmental Rights
    • Equity & Governance
    • environmental democracy
    • Air Quality
    • pollution
    • Freshwater
    • water risk
    Forests
    Outcomes
    November 26, 2014

    Global Forest Watch Ushers in New Era of Transparency in Forest Management

    • Top Outcome: 2014
    Satellite photo of fires in Indonesia
    • Top Outcome: 2014
    Freshwater
    Outcomes
    November 26, 2014

    Business & Investment Community Analyze Water Risk with WRI’s Aqueduct

    • Top Outcome: 2014
    Aqueduct Water Risk Map
    • Top Outcome: 2014
    Finance
    Outcomes
    November 26, 2014

    Green Climate Fund Opens for Business

    • Climate
    • Top Outcome: 2014
    A herder in Mongolia
    • Climate
    • Top Outcome: 2014
    Climate
    Asia
    Outcomes
    November 26, 2014

    China Moves Toward Mandatory Corporate GHG Reporting

    • Energy
    • Top Outcome: 2014
    Smog over Shanghai
    • Energy
    • Top Outcome: 2014
    Cities
    Latin America
    Outcomes
    November 26, 2014

    1.5 Million People in 3 Brazilian Cities Gain Access to Quality Transport

    • Urban Mobility
    • Top Outcome: 2014
    Bus rapid transit in Brazil
    • Urban Mobility
    • Top Outcome: 2014
    Climate
    Outcomes
    November 26, 2014

    New Climate Economy Report Links Climate Action to Economic Growth

    • Top Outcome: 2014
    Former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the NCE launch event
    • Top Outcome: 2014
    Equity & Governance
    Outcomes
    November 26, 2014

    WRI Advances Progress on Sustainable Development Goals

    • Climate
    • Energy
    • Food
    • Freshwater
    • Top Outcome: 2014
    Meeting at UN headquarters. (New York, New York)
    • Climate
    • Energy
    • Food
    • Freshwater
    • Top Outcome: 2014
    Climate
    Latin America
    Outcomes
    November 26, 2014

    27 Cities in Latin America & China Use New Protocol to Measure GHG Emissions

    • Energy
    • Cities
    • GHG Protocol
    • Top Outcome: 2014
    Aerial shot of Rio de Janeiro
    • Energy
    • Cities
    • GHG Protocol
    • Top Outcome: 2014
    Forests
    Africa
    Outcomes
    November 26, 2014

    Global Forest Landscape Restoration Target Set, National Contributions Announced

    • restoration
    • Top Outcome: 2014
    Planting in village of Minwhoho, Lekle, Cameroon
    • restoration
    • Top Outcome: 2014

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