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Joseph Foti

Joseph Foti
Senior Associate, Institutions and Governance Program
nlozovaya@wri.org

Joseph is a Senior Associate with the Institutions and Governance Program at World Resources Institute.

He was the lead author of “Voice and Choice: Opening the Door to Environmental Democracy,” the second global report of The Access Initiative (TAI), and “A Seat at the Table: Including the Poor in Decisions for Environment.”

He is currently leading work on WRI’s toolkit for civil society involvement in climate change adaptation (ARIA), is the desk officer for Latin America, and for environmental justice work in the United States.

Joseph has also been the lead contact for WRI’s cooperation on legal reform to open environmental impact assessment to the poor in Chile and works with civil society organizations in Thailand and Indonesia to use new freedom of information laws to improve access to environmental information.

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Rio+20 in the Rear View: Countries Commit to Improve Environmental Governance
Submitted on July 2, 2012
More than a year ago, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon likened Rio+20 to a “free-market revolution for global sustainability,” calling for the event to inspire innovations that move the world toward more sustainable pathways to economic growth and development. Later in the year, U.N. Commission for Sustainable Development Chair, Sha Zukang, explained that the main difference of Rio+20 from...

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Beyond Rhetoric at Rio+20 with the “Compendium of Commitments”
Submitted on May 1, 2012
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