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Measuring Progress at Rio and Beyond

By on April 2, 2012 in Data, Indices

This post was originally featured on Sage Magazine and the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy blog.  This past Sunday at the US-Canada Citizens Summit for Sustainable Development, I facilitated a group discussion on metrics and indicators for measuring progress toward sustainable development goals.  Indicators and targets are mentioned throughout the “Zero Draft” document [...]

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Please vote for us!

By on March 27, 2012 in Indices

The 20th anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit is quickly approaching this June.  To support the negotiations for a “Future We Want,” the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and Center for International Earth Science Information Network have applied for a Sustainable Development Learning Course to share the lessons learned from 13 years of developing the Environmental [...]

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Recommendations for climate impact reduction in Latvia

By on July 1, 2011 in Indices, Presentations

In May I was invited to Latvia by the non-profit Homo Ecos to participate in a campaign to raise awareness of Latvia’s environment and its goal to become one of the greenest countries in the world.  According to the 2008 Environmental Performance Index, Latvia ranked eighth amongst 149 countries across 10 environmental policy categories ranging from [...]

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Follow-up: Just how does China’s air quality compare globally?

By on February 16, 2011 in Air quality, China, Data, Remote Sensing

Thank you to all who read my previous post, “Chinese NGO releases Air Quality Transparency Index,” and to those have provided some excellent feedback and food for thought. In further exploring the link between information transparency and environmental performance, I made a statement that Chinese cities have a notorious reputation for being the world’s most polluted; however, data limitations could mean that there may be worse air quality out there.

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