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Environmental Rights extractive industries
Equity
Asia
Multimedia
March 8, 2021

Empowering People Against Pollution

  • podcasts
  • pollution
  • Environmental Rights
  • podcasts
  • pollution
  • Environmental Rights
Equity
Initiatives
January 17, 2020

Defending Earth’s Defenders Initiative

Silas Matoke and his wife Yordana Yawate, pose for photograph as they harvesting sago known as 'pangkur' on the banks of the Tuba river in Honitetu village, West Seram regency, Maluku province, Indonesia on August 22, 2017.
Africa
Africa
Insights
May 1, 2019

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

  • Environmental Rights
  • Equity
  • Forests
  • Africa
  • environmental justice
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • sustainable development
Alfred Brownell on a street in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Environmental Rights
  • Equity
  • Forests
  • Africa
  • environmental justice
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • sustainable development
Equity
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
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • natural resources
  • resource rights
  • 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-people-forest
  • Environmental Rights
  • sustainable development goals
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • natural resources
  • resource rights
  • 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
Equity
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
  • India
  • indigenous people
  • natural resources
Prafulla Samantara, 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize winner. Photo by Goldman Environmental Foundation
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • extractive industries
  • human rights
  • India
  • indigenous people
  • natural resources
Equity
Insights
February 22, 2017

Congress and Trump Gut Disclosure Rules for Fossil Fuel Foreign Payments

  • Finance
  • the trump administration
  • extractive industries
  • fossil fuels
  • human rights
  • investment
  • natural resources
  • oil and gas
People in Nigerian village
  • Finance
  • the trump administration
  • extractive industries
  • fossil fuels
  • human rights
  • investment
  • natural resources
  • oil and gas
Equity
Initiatives
August 1, 2016

Environmental Democracy Index

Cities
Insights
September 28, 2015

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

  • Environmental Rights
  • Equity
  • access to information
  • Air Quality
  • governance
  • pollution
  • water
  • water stress
Air pollution in China's Shaanxi Province. Photo by Gilad Rom/Flickr
  • Environmental Rights
  • Equity
  • access to information
  • Air Quality
  • governance
  • pollution
  • water
  • water stress
Equity
Latin America
Insights
September 19, 2014

Ecuador Shows Why Communities and the Climate Need Strong Forest Rights

  • Climate
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • extractive industries
  • human rights
  • land tenure
  • oil and gas
The impacts of oil extraction in Ecuador show why secure community forest rights are necessary to protect livelihoods and the environment. Photo credit: Tomas Munita, CIFOR
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • extractive industries
  • human rights
  • land tenure
  • oil and gas
Equity
Africa
Insights
May 12, 2014

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

  • access to information
  • access to justice
  • Africa
  • extractive industries
  • natural resources
  • oil and gas
  • Principle 10
  • resource rights
  • transparency
Chad's oil fields continue to leach chemicals, create air pollution, and degrade Lake Chad. Photo credit: Carsen ten Brink, Flickr
  • access to information
  • access to justice
  • Africa
  • extractive industries
  • natural resources
  • oil and gas
  • Principle 10
  • resource rights
  • transparency
Equity
Africa
Insights
January 14, 2014

New Map Documents Natural Resource Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • development
  • access to information
  • Africa
  • extractive industries
  • governance
  • land rights
  • water
A farmer stands amidst a rice farm in Burundi, Africa. Photo Credit: Flickr/IRRI Images
  • development
  • access to information
  • Africa
  • extractive industries
  • governance
  • land rights
  • water
Equity
North America
Insights
June 13, 2013

Ending the "Resource Curse": Canada Commits to Make Mining More Transparent

  • Business
  • access to information
  • Africa
  • Canada
  • extractive industries
  • governance
  • natural resources
  • Business
  • access to information
  • Africa
  • Canada
  • extractive industries
  • governance
  • natural resources
Equity
Africa
Insights
May 31, 2013

Improving Freedom of Information in Uganda

  • Equity
  • access to justice
  • access to information
  • Africa
  • extractive industries
  • freedom of information
  • governance
  • oil and gas
  • public participation
  • Equity
  • access to justice
  • access to information
  • Africa
  • extractive industries
  • freedom of information
  • governance
  • oil and gas
  • public participation
Climate
North America
Insights
May 20, 2013

What Exporting U.S. Natural Gas Means for the Climate

  • Energy
  • climate change
  • extractive industries
  • natural gas
  • shale gas
  • United States
  • us policy
  • Energy
  • climate change
  • extractive industries
  • natural gas
  • shale gas
  • United States
  • us policy
Climate
North America
Insights
May 8, 2013

U.S. Natural Gas Exports: Friend or Foe?

  • Energy
  • climate change
  • extractive industries
  • natural gas
  • shale gas
  • us policy
  • Energy
  • climate change
  • extractive industries
  • natural gas
  • shale gas
  • us policy
Energy
North America
Insights
May 6, 2013

5 Reasons Why It’s (Still) Important to Reduce Fugitive Methane Emissions

  • climate change
  • emissions
  • Energy
  • environmental protection agency
  • extractive industries
  • natural gas
  • shale gas
  • us policy
  • climate change
  • emissions
  • Energy
  • environmental protection agency
  • extractive industries
  • natural gas
  • shale gas
  • us policy
Asia
Asia North America
Insights
April 24, 2013

Exploring Prospects for U.S. Coal Exports to China

  • Energy
  • coal
  • China
  • extractive industries
  • trade
  • United States
  • Energy
  • coal
  • China
  • extractive industries
  • trade
  • United States
Climate
North America
Insights
March 28, 2013

New Data Reveals Rising Coal Use

  • Energy
  • coal
  • climate change
  • extractive industries
  • natural gas
  • power plants
  • United States
  • us policy
  • Energy
  • coal
  • climate change
  • extractive industries
  • natural gas
  • power plants
  • United States
  • us policy
Energy
North America
Research
February 11, 2011

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