#MineAlert: A digi-savvy tool to make mining activities more transparent in South Africa

By: Tholakele Nene, Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism

Environmental justice and democracy failures at the heart of Flint's water crisis

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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

How EDI can support the Open Government Partnership

(Photo by Open Government Partnership)

by: Jesse Worker

Goodbye EDI beta, Hello EDI 1.0!

Governmental and non-governmental representatives discuss EDI at a UNEP/UNITAR event in Genev

4 Real-World Challenges to Environmental Democracy

By Jesse Worker

(This was first posted at www.wri.org)

Open Data, Transparency, and the Environmental Democracy Index

Written by Mark Robinson, Global Director, Governance at WRI

Why are environmental rights so hard to assess?

By Nicholas Tagliarino and Lalanath de Silva

A New Way to Measure Environmental Rights Around the World

by Sarah Parsons

(This blog was originally posted at www.wri.org)

The Best and Worst Countries for Environmental Democracy

By: Jesse Worker

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.