This is an archived site that was created in 2015 through the research of WRI and its partners to show the extent of national legal protections of procedural rights to the environment. All country data may be viewed directly on each country’s page or by downloading the data in the About section. The interactive map will no longer be displayed on the site.
#MineAlert: A digi-savvy tool to make mining activities more transparent in South Africa
By: Tholakele Nene, Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism
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From a right to reality: a Honduran community's struggle to exercise its right to be heard
Image: The cemetery that the community of Azacualpa, Honduras is fighting to protect (photo credi
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How EDI can support the Open Government Partnership
(Photo by Open Government Partnership)
by: Jesse Worker
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Goodbye EDI beta, Hello EDI 1.0!
Governmental and non-governmental representatives discuss EDI at a UNEP/UNITAR event in Genev
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4 Real-World Challenges to Environmental Democracy
By Jesse Worker
(This was first posted at www.wri.org)
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Open Data, Transparency, and the Environmental Democracy Index
Written by Mark Robinson, Global Director, Governance at WRI
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Why are environmental rights so hard to assess?
By Nicholas Tagliarino and Lalanath de Silva
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A New Way to Measure Environmental Rights Around the World
by Sarah Parsons
(This blog was originally posted at www.wri.org)
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A right to know, a right to be heard, a right to access justice
The Access Initiative and the World Resources Institute will launch the first ever Environmental Democracy Index (EDI) on May 20th at the National Press Club. The index will offer new insights into the state of environmental democracy around the world and opportunities to use the tool to support reform. EDI is the first index to measure how well countries’ national laws protect environmental democracy rights.
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