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Earthjustice, a nonprofit public interest environmental law organization, reported total revenue of $135,320,966 and total expenses of $127,720,008 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. The organization focuses on protecting health, preserving ecosystems, and combating climate change through legal representation and public awareness. Its largest program service expenses were dedicated to providing free legal representation, totaling $71,294,848. Earthjustice maintains significant assets, with total assets reported at $276,651,694 and net assets of $245,809,918 at the end of the year. The organization also engages in international activities, including grants to entities in Sub-Saharan Africa and Australia.

The report analyzes the South African urban water market, highlighting a critical funding gap of approximately R33 billion per annum for water and sanitation infrastructure. It identifies three primary investment opportunities: reducing non-revenue water (NRW), implementing non-sewered sanitation systems (NSSS), and wastewater sludge beneficiation. While the Western Cape has planned sufficient supply projects to ensure a surplus, the national context remains water-stressed, with a projected 10% gap between supply and demand by 2030. Key barriers to investment include municipal financial insolvency, lack of technical capacity, and a lack of locally demonstrated technologies.

The document analyzes the widespread eutrophication of Uruguay's aquatic ecosystems, identifying agricultural intensification as the primary driver of nutrient pollution, particularly phosphorus. It details how climate change exacerbates these symptoms and describes the public health risks posed by toxic cyanobacterial blooms, such as those from the Microcystis aeruginosa complex. The authors argue that current soil conservation practices, like no-till farming, may inadvertently increase soluble phosphorus runoff. They recommend a transition toward neutral or negative phosphorus balances, the use of catch crops, and a shift from a centralized to a decentralized, multi-actor water governance model to effectively mitigate the crisis.

The document outlines best practices for mine closure, emphasizing the necessity of early planning and robust financial assurance to prevent the state from inheriting liabilities from abandoned mines. It specifically examines the comprehensive national laws in Chile and Peru, noting that while both align with international standards for physical and chemical stability, they lack significant emphasis on social transition and post-mining land use. The study details the specific legal milestones, financial instruments, and reporting requirements used in both countries to ensure mine sites are safely reclaimed.

The document examines the critical role of mine closure planning and financial guarantees to prevent abandoned mines and protect public interests. It highlights Chile and Peru as the only South American countries with comprehensive national legislation requiring financial assurances. While both align with international best practices regarding technical stability and financial transparency, the report notes a lack of emphasis on social transition and post-closure land use in both jurisdictions.

The report examines how Ghana and British Columbia manage mine waste, highlighting the importance of risk-based legal frameworks, corporate accountability, and financial assurances. It identifies strengths in both jurisdictions' planning processes while noting specific areas for improvement, such as Ghana's need for stronger polluter-pays principles and British Columbia's focus on enhancing regulatory auditing following the 2014 Mount Polley dam failure.

The report outlines a holistic approach to watershed-level water management, emphasizing the need for risk-based planning, stakeholder engagement, and clear legal frameworks. It presents case studies from Mongolia, which utilizes a system of management zones based on water sources, and Antofagasta, Chile, which employs strategic regional planning and technical cost-benefit analyses. Both jurisdictions highlight the challenges of managing water in arid environments where mining competes with community and agricultural needs, particularly under the pressures of climate change.

The report advocates for watershed-scale water governance to balance the needs of the mining sector with those of other users and ecosystems. It details a framework based on risk planning, stakeholder collaboration, and continuous monitoring. In Mongolia, the focus is on integrating surface and groundwater management, particularly in the Gobi desert where mining demands may exceed supply by 2021. In Antofagasta, Chile, the study highlights the use of strategic regional plans and cost-benefit analyses for the Loa River basin, while noting the challenge of water rights assigned without expiration dates.

The document examines water governance in the mining sectors of Mongolia and Chile, advocating for a holistic, risk-based watershed approach. It details the legal frameworks, data collection strategies, and stakeholder engagement processes used in both jurisdictions to manage water scarcity and pollution risks, particularly in arid environments.

The 2021 state of global environmental governance was characterized by a heavy reliance on voluntary commitments and a transition toward hybrid and virtual negotiation formats due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While some substantive outcomes were achieved—such as the finalization of the Paris Agreement rulebook at COP26 and the adoption of the Marseille Manifesto by the IUCN—many multilateral environmental agreements were limited to procedural decisions. The report highlights a growing gap between political promises and actual implementation, alongside increasing global inequalities in vaccine access and digital connectivity that hinder inclusive environmental governance.

The 2021 state of global environmental governance was characterized by a shift toward voluntary pledges and a struggle to maintain multilateral progress during the COVID-19 pandemic. While some major meetings, such as the Glasgow COP, returned to in-person formats, many other processes remained in a 'maintenance mode' with only procedural outcomes. The report highlights a growing gap between environmental promises and action, exacerbated by systemic inequalities and vaccine disparity, which hinder the collective ability of states to address climate, nature, and pollution crises.

The document is a reference list of visual representations of food systems, citing figures from academic journals, international organizations, and institutional reports.

The report identifies a network of nearly 5,000 social media accounts producing over 280,000 messages in 2020 to spread anti-refugee disinformation. It highlights how key events, such as the Evros border crisis and the Moria camp fires, served as flashpoints for transnational mobilisation. The research demonstrates a significant overlap between mainstream political parties—such as the AfD in Germany and New Democracy in Greece—and far-right extremist ecosystems. Common narratives include the 'Great Replacement' conspiracy, the depiction of refugees as 'invaders' or 'soldiers', and the targeting of NGOs with claims of criminal complicity in human smuggling. The report concludes that anti-migrant discourse is increasingly transnational and integrated into broader geopolitical tensions, such as Greek-Turkish relations.

The 2021 Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Index reveals a slowing pace of global improvement and widening disparities in women's status. While developed countries, particularly Nordic nations, lead the index, fragile states and regions like South Asia perform poorly. The report highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing inequalities, particularly through job losses in female-dominated sectors and increased risks of intimate partner violence. Additionally, new indices for forcibly displaced women and subnational data for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the United States demonstrate that national averages often conceal severe internal disparities and the compounding disadvantages of displacement.

In 2021, 1.09 billion people in 54 high-impact countries were at high risk due to a lack of access to cooling, an increase of 50 million compared to 2020. This growth is attributed to the combined effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which pushed millions into extreme poverty, and increasing global temperatures. Additionally, 2.34 billion lower-middle income people are identified as a risk to energy systems and GHG emissions because they are likely to purchase inefficient cooling devices due to price sensitivity.

The SEforALL Virtual Youth Summit (9-11 February 2021) engaged 2,343 registered participants from 134 countries to promote Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7). The event featured high-level dialogues on the energy transition, a competition for youth-led energy innovations, and virtual fairs connecting youth to academic and career opportunities. Key outcomes included youth recommendations for the UN High-Level Dialogue on Energy and COP26, emphasizing the need for direct youth engagement in policy documentation and national delegations.

The document provides the technical appendix for a study on federal investments in sustainable nutrition science. It describes the use of the NIH Federal RePORTER database to identify projects that simultaneously address food production, human nutrition, and environmental or climate impacts. The analysis identified 53 unique projects meeting these criteria, with reported funding totaling $41.1 million over the 2016–2019 period. It also catalogues federal recommendations from 2010 to 2021 urging a shift toward interdisciplinary, systems-based research to integrate sustainability into nutrition policy and food systems.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) reported total revenue of $193,968,394 and total expenses of $183,476,237 for the 2021 tax year. The organization operates several global programs focused on food, forests, water, ocean, cities, climate, and energy, with significant grantmaking and operational activities across North America, South America, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and Africa.

The document identifies agriculture and infrastructure as primary threats to nature, noting that 70% of biodiversity loss and 80% of deforestation are caused by agriculture, while 63% of the world's longest rivers are obstructed by dams. WWF's strategy is organized around four pillars: innovation and influence, conservation of critical landscapes, regenerative and resilient systems, and thriving people and communities. Key initiatives include promoting free-flowing rivers, sustainable protein systems, and reducing global food loss and waste. By 2030, WWF aims to achieve zero land conversion of native habitat in priority landscapes and protect the world's remaining free-flowing rivers.

A review of snow leopard research from 1904 to 2020 reveals that while publications have increased exponentially since the 1970s, knowledge is concentrated in a few hotspots, covering less than 23% of the species' range. Research is heavily skewed toward ecological surveys of abundance and distribution, with significant gaps in social science, disease ecology, and empirical evidence regarding the effectiveness of conservation interventions.