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STATEMENT: Countries Agree to Landmark Deal to Protect World’s Ecosystems

  • Forests
  • Ocean
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • restoration
  • biodiversity
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • Ocean
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • restoration
  • biodiversity
  • Equity & Governance
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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
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10 Big Changes for Forests Over the Last Decade

  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • biodiversity
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • restoration
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • biodiversity
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • restoration
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Forests
  • environmental democracy

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

Balancing the scales