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This indicator is based on four datasets assessing level of freedom, corruption, governance and violence against land and environmental defenders.
Unstable and ineffective institutions & governance can potentially undermine business viability and increase potential for reputational risks.
Freedom House’s annual global report on political rights and civil liberties, composed of numerical ratings and descriptive texts for each country and a select group of territories. Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2020 aggregates data from different sources that provide perceptions of business, people and country experts on the level of corruption in the public sector. These two datasets have already been calculated in the Water Risk Filter (WRF) and have been integrated into the Biodiversity Risk Filter without changes. To estimate governance, the World Bank’s worldwide ‘government effectiveness in percentile’ governance indicator was used. Government effectiveness captures perceptions of the quality of public services, the quality of the civil service and the degree of its independence from political pressures, the quality of policy formulation and implementation, and the credibility of the government’s commitment to such policies. For violence against land and environmental defenders, Global Witness’s record of total number of killings of land environmental defenders per country was used. Please note that the source datasets for this indicator are only available on a country level.
What does very high risk mean for this indicator?
Areas of very high risk have a very low Freedom in the World Index (<30); are assessed to be highly corrupt (<20); a very low percentile rank of government effectiveness (<20); a very high number of killings of land and environmental defenders (>5). See the documentation for more details.
This indicator is based on four datasets assessing level of freedom, corruption, governance and violence against land and environmental defenders.
Unstable and ineffective institutions & governance can potentially undermine business viability and increase potential for reputational risks.
Freedom House’s annual global report on political rights and civil liberties, composed of numerical ratings and descriptive texts for each country and a select group of territories. Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2020 aggregates data from different sources that provide perceptions of business, people and country experts on the level of corruption in the public sector. These two datasets have already been calculated in the Water Risk Filter (WRF) and have been integrated into the Biodiversity Risk Filter without changes. To estimate governance, the World Bank’s worldwide ‘government effectiveness in percentile’ governance indicator was used. Government effectiveness captures perceptions of the quality of public services, the quality of the civil service and the degree of its independence from political pressures, the quality of policy formulation and implementation, and the credibility of the government’s commitment to such policies. For violence against land and environmental defenders, Global Witness’s record of total number of killings of land environmental defenders per country was used. Please note that the source datasets for this indicator are only available on a country level.
What does very high risk mean for this indicator?
Areas of very high risk have a very low Freedom in the World Index (<30); are assessed to be highly corrupt (<20); a very low percentile rank of government effectiveness (<20); a very high number of killings of land and environmental defenders (>5). See the documentation for more details.