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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

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
Outcomes
Satellite photo of fires in Indonesia
  • Top Outcome: 2014
Outcomes
Aqueduct Water Risk Map
  • Top Outcome: 2014
Outcomes

Green Climate Fund Opens for Business

  • Climate
  • Top Outcome: 2014
A herder in Mongolia
  • Climate
  • Top Outcome: 2014
Outcomes

China Moves Toward Mandatory Corporate GHG Reporting

  • Energy
  • Top Outcome: 2014
Smog over Shanghai
  • Energy
  • Top Outcome: 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
Outcomes
Former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the NCE launch event
  • Top Outcome: 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

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

Better Bus Systems & Car-free Days Improve Life in India’s Cities

  • Urban Mobility
  • transportation
  • Top Outcome: 2014
Raahgiri Day in India
  • Urban Mobility
  • transportation
  • Top Outcome: 2014

Ecuador Shows Why Communities and the Climate Need Strong Forest Rights

  • Climate
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • extractive industries
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • fossil fuels
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 rights
  • fossil fuels

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

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

A New Strategy to Improve Water Quality—One Targeted Watershed at a Time

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
More than 15,000 streams, rivers, and lakes are too polluted with nutrient runoff to support wildlife, be enjoyed recreationally, or serve as a drinking water source. Photo credit: USDA
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
Initiatives
This website serves as an information portal about eutrophication—the over-enrichment of water by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus—a leading threat to water quality around the world. Explore our interactive map and learn more.

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

  • Business
  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • natural resources
  • Business
  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • natural resources

Improving Freedom of Information in Uganda

  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • freedom of information
  • fossil fuels
  • public participation
  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • freedom of information
  • fossil fuels
  • public participation
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset