A Cross-Country Assessment of Environmental Governance in Practice in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Jamaica, Peru, & Uruguay
The Environmental Governance Indicators for Latin America and the Caribbean© represent the first-ever cross-country assessment of how environmental governance functions in practice. This quantitative assessment tool measures the state of environmental governance in ten countries in the region: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Jamaica, Peru, and Uruguay.
A healthy environment is critical to public health, ecosystem vitality, and the sustainability of societies. A majority of countries have endorsed this view and adopted environmental framework laws or included the right to a healthy environment in their constitutions. However, implementation often lags behind environmental laws, and to date, there have been very little data to help understand and address this implementation gap. The Environmental Governance Indicators for Latin America and the Caribbean© (EGI) represent the first-ever effort to address this challenge by measuring how environmental governance functions in practice across several countries. This study is the result of a collaborative research effort undertaken by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Justice Project (WJP).