Peter Veit is Project Manager, Equity, Poverty and Environment Initiative at the World Resources Institute (WRI). His recent work has focused on a range of environmental governance matters, particularly environment/democracy and environment/human rights links. Janet Ranganathan is the Vice President for Science and Research at WRI. She plays a lead role in ensuring that WRI’s research is robust and its strategies evidence based and designed to create scalable results. This includes overseeing the planning, quality control, and evaluation of WRI’s research and publications.