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RELEASE: World on Track to Meet Ambitious Forest Restoration Goal by 2020
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View ArticleAdapting To Climate Change in the Lower Mekong Basin: 4 Steps and 4 Lessons
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View ArticleJapan Releases Underwhelming Climate Action Commitment
Japan Releases Underwhelming Climate Action CommitmentIn one of the least aggressive climate action plans of any developed country to date, Japan announced its commitment to reduce its emissions 26...
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RELEASE: Asian Development Bank and World Resources Institute Launch New...
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ADVISORY: New Online Platform on Indigenous and Community Territories to Help...
ADVISORY: New Online Platform on Indigenous and Community Territories to Help Secure Land Rights WorldwideAs Paris climate change talks approach, new web resource promises opportunities to protect...
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RELEASE: First Interactive Global Map of Indigenous and Community Territories...
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View ArticlePalm Oil Mill Data: A Step Towards Transparency
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Mapping Tree Plantations with Multispectral Imagery: Preliminary Results for...
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View ArticleCrisis Response: When Trees Stop Storms and Deserts in Asia
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View ArticleAsian Infrastructure Investment Bank Releases New Environmental and Social...
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Releases New Environmental and Social Standards. How Do They Stack Up?The new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has committed to being "lean, clean and green."...
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Encroaching on Land and Livelihoods: How National Expropriation Laws Measure...
Working PaperEncroaching on Land and Livelihoods examines whether national expropriation laws in 30 countries across Asia and Africa follow the international standards established in Section 16 of the...
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INSIDER: Tracking Adaptation at the National Level: Making Progress in Fiji
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How Can China’s Green Building Sector Grow Fivefold by 2030? 3 Cities Show Us...
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Strengthening the Right to Information for People and the Environment (STRIPE)
Rapid development has transformed many countries’ economies, but with this growth comes hazardous pollution. Globally, 80% of wastewater contaminated by toxic sludge, industrial chemicals and other...
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ADVISORY: New WRI Analysis Reveals Asia’s Poorest People Don’t Know if Their...
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RELEASE: Is the Water Safe To Drink? Without Better Access to Pollution...
RELEASE: Is the Water Safe To Drink? Without Better Access to Pollution Information, Asia’s Poorest People Don’t KnowSTOCKHOLM (August 30, 2017) — A new report from World Resources Institute’s (WRI)...
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Places to Watch: Identifying High-Priority Forest Disturbance from Near–Real...
Technical NoteThis paper lays out a methodology for filtering millions of weekly deforestation alerts in order to find the most concerning areas of forest clearing. Mikaela WeisseRachael PetersenSarah...
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Sustainable and Safe: A Vision and Guidance for Zero Road Deaths
ReportThis report presents a substantial body of evidence from 20 years’ worth of experience on how a Safe System based approach to road safety reduces deaths and serious injuries at the fastest rate....
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