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Indonesia’s Indigenous and Community Groups Secure Legal Rights to Forests

  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Equity & Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Forests
  • conservation
Local people from Takal Pasir Village conducting a survey of the Singkil peat swamp forest.
  • Top Outcome: 2023
  • Equity & Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Forests
  • conservation
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Better Forests, Better Cities

Cityscape behind lush forest.
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The Ocean Genome Helps Fight Disease: Here's How We Save It

  • conservation
  • coronavirus
  • biodiversity
  • Equity & Governance
  • international climate policy
  • Ocean
  • protected areas
Algae, corals and fish in an ocean gully.
  • conservation
  • coronavirus
  • biodiversity
  • Equity & Governance
  • international climate policy
  • Ocean
  • protected areas

3 Reasons Property Rights Are Essential for Healthy Ecosystems

  • Freshwater
  • conservation
  • land rights
Filipino farmers plowing rice field with carabao
  • Freshwater
  • conservation
  • land rights

Environmental Justice and Democracy Failures at the Heart of Flint’s Water Crisis

  • Equity & Governance
  • Freshwater
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • Water Quality
  • water risk
Water plant in Flint, Mich.
  • Equity & Governance
  • Freshwater
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • Water Quality
  • water risk

Sustainable Development Goals: Setting a New Course for People and Planet

  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
The unveiling of the Sustainable Development Goals next week will be a milestone moment for our collective future. Photo by US Mission to the United Nations Agencies in Rome/Flickr
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations

Why Community Land Rights Belong in the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Equity & Governance
  • International Climate Action
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
The proposed Sustainable Development Goals leave out a critical component of improving rural livelihoods—securing community land rights. Photo credit: Jane Boles, Flickr
  • Equity & Governance
  • International Climate Action
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations

Getting More from the U.S. Farm Conservation Water Quality Budget

  • Freshwater
  • agriculture
  • Water Quality
USDA provides limited voluntary financial and technical assistance to farmers who want to lessen their environmental impact. Photo Credit: Heather Dawn/Flickr
  • Freshwater
  • agriculture
  • Water Quality

4 Issues to Watch: Recommendations for the Post-2015 Development Agenda

  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations

Diverging Paths