Documents/WRI/3: Governance

3: Governance

Empower people and strengthen institutions to foster environmentally sound and socially equitable decisionmaking.

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Reversing the decline of the planet’s ecosystems, assuring they continue to provide people with essential goods and services, and preventing catastrophic climate change depend upon an informed and empowered civil society as well as responsive and accountable government institutions. Efforts to promote democratic reform and to advance the fulfi llment of human rights are most likely to succeed when they engage people and deliver on issues that matter to them, such as clean air, safe drinking water, and productive land and forests.

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