After three years of engagement with local community members as part of TAI's STRIPE project, the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry passed a new regulation that requires over 111 documents, maps, and reports to be made “proactively available periodically” to the public.
The conservation and management of protected areas is more efficient when local communities (Fokonolona) can attribute their share of the national park entrance fees (DEAP) as a right and
South African law says planned developments, including mines, dams, power stations, roads and landfill sites, need to have their environmental impacts assessed before they can go ahead.
UNEP’s Governing Council reached a major milestone in implementing Principle 10 of the 1992 Rio Declaration on Development and Environment in the adoption of guidelines for national legislation on access to information, public participation, and access to justice.
