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- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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Recognizing the problem of potential global climate change, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. It is open to all members of the UNEP and WMO. The role of the IPCC is to assess the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change. It does not carry out research nor does it monitor climate related data or other relevant parameters. It bases its assessment mainly on peer reviewed and published scientific/technical literature.
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- International Environment Forum
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"Our vision is to build the International Environment Forum into a recognized Baha'i-inspired agency, as an organization of civil society using the new methods of communications, whose members are learning how to apply the Divine teachings to working with those around them, and whose scholarly activity reinforces the intellectual foundations of the Baha'i Faith's work. The Forum will focus on social and economic development and external affairs, producing papers and events examining contemporary problems of environment and sustainable development in the light of the Baha'i principles, and making links to the spiritual dimensions of the changes occurring in the world. It will work to build a dynamic relationship with the United Nations, governments, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and create recognition of the imperative need for an adequate system to deal with global issues. It will participate in interfaith dialogue on environment, and disseminate information about the Baha'i teachings relevant to environment and sustainable development to various publics, including children and junior youth." [From Website]
http://www.bcca.org/ief/home.htm
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- International Rivers Network
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IRN was established in 1985 as a nonprofit all-volunteer organization of activists experienced in fighting economically, environmentally, and socially unsound river intervention projects. Aware that similar projects and struggles were happening in other countries, IRN opened a communication channel with local river activists worldwide. In 1989, IRN began to develop a staff of experienced activists trained in economics, biology, engineering, hydrology, anthropology, and environmental sciences. IRN supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds. We work to halt destructive river development projects, and to encourage equitable and sustainable methods of meeting needs for water, energy and flood management.
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- International Society of Tropical Foresters
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ISTF is a nonprofit organization formed in the 1950s in Washington, D.C., by tropical forester, Tom Gill. Having grown in response to a worldwide concern for the fate of tropical and subtropical forests, ISTF is committed to the protection, wise management and rational use of the world's tropical forests. ISTF is dedicated to providing a communications network for tropical forestry disciplines.
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- InterWATER
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InterWATER offers information about more than 600 organisations and networks in the water supply and sanitation sector, related to developing countries. You can search the list of organisations using the search box in the top right hand corner of each page, or by selecting a region or country on this page. There is also a list of key international organisations and UN organisations. Each organisation has a short description, contact details, e-mail and website addresses, and related sites where applicable.
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- Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center/ Kasama sa Kalikasan
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LRC-KSK is the official Philippine affiliate of Friends of the Earth International. It is a legal and policy research and advocacy institution. Established in 1987, it is organized as a non-stock, non-profit, non-partisan, cultural, scientific and research foundation. Its main advocacy has been that recognition and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples and long-term occupants of the forests and of the rest of the uplands should be a main, if not the primary, component of any program on sustainable development.
http://www.info.com.ph/~lrcksk/
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- Lifewater
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Lifewater International's mission is to provide water resource development information, training, equipment and technical support to the rural poor.
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- MiningWatch Canada (MWC)
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MiningWatch Canada (MWC) is a pan-Canadian initiative supported by environmental, social justice, Aboriginal and labour organisations from across the country. It addresses the urgent need for a co-ordinated public interest response to the threats to public health, water and air quality, fish and wildlife habitat and community interests posed by irresponsible mineral policies and practices in Canada and around the world.
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- Native Forest Action
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This website is intended to enable the sharing of information, to create interest and awareness, and to gain support for the fight against native logging in Aotearoa New Zealand. [Update - Site last updated in 2001 due to cessation of all state logging of native forest]
http://www.converge.org.nz/nfa/
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- Pacific Environment
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Pacific Environment protects the living environment of the Pacific Rim by strengthening democracy, supporting grassroots activism, empowering communities, and redefining international policies.
http://www.pacificenvironment.org
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- Pan American Information Network on Environmental Health (Repidisca)
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Repidisca operates in the Latin American and Caribbean region, disseminates information on environmental health, environmental epidemiology, sanitary and environmental engineering, water supply, waste water, solid waste, hazardous waste and occupational health. It maintains the following databases: (a) Bibliographical database: union database from cooperating countries. Some 85,000 records. (b) institutional directory on environmental health (c) union serial catalogue (d) thesaurus: environmental health terms in Spanish, Portuguese, German, French. (e) International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals (IRPTC): from UNEP (f) REPDISCA information bank: containing technical dissemination sheets, news, publications catalogue and other CEPIS/REPDISCA brochures.
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- Quebec-Labrador Foundation/Atlantic Center for the Environment (QLF)
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The Quebec-Labrador Foundation/Atlantic Center for the Environment (QLF) is a private, nonprofit conservation and education organization. For 40 years, QLF's mission has been to support the rural communities and environment of eastern Canada and New England, and to create models for stewardship of natural resources and cultural heritage, which can be applied world-wide. QLF's three program areas are: Eastern Canada, New England/Maritimes, and International.
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- Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC)
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RECOFTC's mandate is to promote peoples' participation in forest management. RECOFTC is an international organization that closely collaborates with partners to actively support community forestry. As a learning organization, RECOFTC designs and facilitates learning processes and systems that support the development of capacities of actors in community forestry. RECOFTC seeks to constructively promote dialogue between multi-stakeholders to ensure improved governance and equitable management of forest resources.
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- Renewable Energy Partners of New Mexico (REP)
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A non-profit organization, founded in 1998. "REP is an active member of the New Mexico Sustainable Energy Collaborative, and has testified at the NM Public Regulation Commission and in the State Legislature on issues regarding renewable energy and alternative transportation fuels. Solving the problem of pollution and the dangerous and costly national dependency on petroleum is a major emphasis of our mission and our efforts. Since 2001 we have focused on bringing practical, affordable, and environmentally sensible biofuels to the public and government agencies in Central and Northern New Mexico."
http://www.renewableenergypartners.org/
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- Resilience Alliance
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The Resilience Alliance was established by a group of adaptive management practitioners, including C.S. Buzz Holling of Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Monitoring fame. The alliance is interested in the assessment and analysis of links between social, environmental and economic systems and their inter-related behavioural patterns. They publish the peer-reviewed online journal Conservation Ecology, and members have authored several books such as Resilience and the behaviour of large scale systems, and Navigating social-ecological systems: Building resilience for complexity and change. Their work is developing a systemic understanding that both synthesises lessons from practice and informs the practice of adaptive management. Their site contains outlines of different concepts and links to a number of key reports on resilience.
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- Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)
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Rocky Mountain Institute was established in 1982 by resource analysts L. Hunter Lovins and Amory B. Lovins. What began as a small group of colleagues focusing on energy policy has since grown into a broad-based institution with more than 45 full-time staff, an annual budget of nearly $7 million (much of it earned through programmatic enterprise), and a global reach.
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- South Pacific Regional Environment Programme
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The South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) is a regional organisation established by the governments and administrations of the Pacific region to look after its environment. This is reflected in the Mission Statement of SPREP which calls on the organisation, "to promote co-operation in the South Pacific region and to provide assistance in order to protect and improve its environment and to ensure sustainable development for present and future generations".
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- The Armenia Tree Project
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The Armenia Tree Project, a division of the Armenian Assembly of America, was founded in 1993 to further Armenia's economic and social development by mobilizing resources outside the country to fund reforestation. Since then we have planted over 263,000 trees, opened two tree nurseries, initiated a village-based fruit drying and distribution business, and have employed hundreds to renew Armenia's severely damaged forests. Our goal is to assist the Armenian people in using trees to improve their standard of living and protect the global environment. We are guided by the need to promote self-sufficiency, aid those with fewest resources first, and conserve the indigenous ecosystem.
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- The Center for International Environmental Law
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The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) is a public interest, not-for-profit environmental law firm founded in 1989 to strengthen international and comparative environmental law and policy around the world. CIEL provides a full range of environmental legal services in both international and comparative national law, including: policy research and publication, advice and advocacy, education and training, and institution building.
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- The Centre for Science and Environment
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The Centre for Science and Environment is one of India's leading environmental NGOs with a deep interest in sustainable natural resource management. CSE's strategy of "knowledge based activism" has won it wide respect and admiration for the quality of its campaigns, research and publications which are trying to bring about change in an extremely difficult situation.
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- The Environmental Investigation Agency
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The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is an international campaigning organisation committed to investigating and exposing environmental crime. Since 1984, EIA has used pioneering investigative techniques all over the world to expose the impact of environmental crime and to seek lasting solutions - thanks to our supporters help.
http://www.eia-international.org
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- The Forest Peoples Programme
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The Forest Peoples Programme supports forest peoples' rights to determine their own futures, to control the use of their lands and to carry out sustainable use of their resources.
http://www.forestpeoples.gn.apc.org/
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- The Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD)
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The Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD), was founded in 1989 in order to tap the tremendous potential of law at the international, regional and domestic level, to encourage environmental protection and sustainable development. The result of that initiative, twelve years later, is a vibrant and thriving organisation whose advice and assistance are sought by governments, non-governmental organisations, inter-governmental organisations and industry.
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- The Haribon Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources
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Haribon Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources is a non-profit, non-stock and non-government organization. Since its inception in 1972, the foundation has been in the forefront of environmental protection and sustainable resource management. The foundation aims to educate and inform people of the importance of ensuring that future generations will still have natural resources and healthy ecosystems without sacrificing the needs of the present.
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- The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
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Established in 1998, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is an independent, not for profit think tank, based in Japan, that goes beyond research to provide practical ways to protect the earth's environment and to realize greater sustainability and equity in the global community. While the outlook of IGES is global, the principal geographical scope of its activities is Asia and the Pacific region, an area which is experiencing rapid economic development and which will affect the global environment through its population growth, urban environmental problems and other environmental issues.
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