Following an extensive global consultation process, the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda will present its final report to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon this week. Led by the heads…
This post was written by Ricardo Lagos, former president of Chile and a member of the high-level advisory panel for the Climate Justice…
How can we make climate change adaptation measures more effective? I recently traveled to Dhaka, Bangladesh to discuss ways to address that very question.
I took part in the 7th annual…
A slight breath of fresh air entered the UNFCCC climate negotiations this week in Bonn, Germany. Held in the old German parliament—which was designed…
It’s been almost four months since the last UNFCCC negotiations in Doha, Qatar (COP 18). Countries…
This piece was co-authored with Tara Shine, head of research and development at the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice.
We recently travelled to Santiago, Chile, a sprawling city of six…
- Air Quality + Climate Change
- Climate Change
- drought
- Earth Day
- EMBARQ Mexico
- environmental impact
- environmental justice
- equity
- Face of Climate Change
- flooding
- fossil fuels
- fuel subsidies
- greenhouse gas emissions
- Hurricane Katrina
- International Climate Policy
- Jorge Macias
- natural disasters
- superstorm
- transport
- World Economic Forum
- World Resources Institute
- Yasmin Khan
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p>Fourteen Latin American and Caribbean countries adopted an ambitious Plan of Action to improve access rights in the region, including access to information, public participation, and access to justice.
- Access Initiative
- access to information
- access to justice
- Argentina
- Bahamas
- belize
- brazil
- caribbean
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- equity
- freedom of information
- governance
- Governance + Access
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- latin america
- Mexico
- panama
- paraguay
- peru
- Principle 10
- south america
- st lucia
- The Access Initiative (TAI)
- tobago
- Venezuela
This piece was written with analysis from Athena Ballesteros, Edward Cameron, Yamide Dagnet, Florence Daviet, Aarjan Dixit, Heather McGray, and Clifford Polycarp.
Expectations…
- ambition
- Climate Change
- climate finance
- Climate Justice Dialogue
- Climate, Energy &amp; Transport
- COP 18: Doha
- COP-18 Doha
- equity
- forests
- Green Climate Fund
- International Cooperation on Climate &amp; Energy
- International Financial Flows and the Environment (IFFE)
- low carbon development
- MRV
- REDD
- The Governance of Forests Initiative
- U.S. Climate Action
- unfccc
- Vulnerability and Adaptation
This post was co-authored with Wendi Bevins, an intern with WRI’s Climate and Energy Program.
If you asked five different people what they think “equity” means, you’d probably…



