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See also section of this website entitled "Links: Environmental NGOs"
United Nations & other intergovernmental websites:
Financial Institutions Initiative -...Signatories to the UNEP FI Statement by Financial Institutions on the Environment and Sustainable Development commit to the integration of environmental considerations into all aspects of their operations. (United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiatives)
{···español} PNUMA - Declaración de instituciones financieras acerca del medio ambiente y desarrollo sostenible (Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente, mayo 1997)
Human Rights and the Environment (U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights)
IFC and the Johannesburg Summit: The Business Case for Sustainability (International Finance Corporation)
Insurance Industry Initiative - In collaboration with UNEP FI a group of leading insurance, reinsurance and pension fund companies has developed a Statement of Environmental Commitment for the Insurance Industry (United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiatives)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Johannesburg Summit 2002 - the World Summit on Sustainable Development (United Nations, 26 Aug. - 4 Sep. 2002)
NIPR - New Ideas in Pollution Regulation ( World Bank)
United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Other websites (see also websites in "Links - Environmental organisations"):
Agricultural Pesticides (World Wildlife Fund)
Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE)
Ancient Forests (Greenpeace)
Banana Link: Working for sustainable production and trade in bananas
Best environmental directories
Biotechnology (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
BP Solar: Municipal Solar Project - Phillipines - BP Solar has been supplying equipment and systems to rural development projects for over 15 years as part of the company’s commercial business. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)
Business Action for Sustainable Development: Johannesburg Summit 2002
Businesses and Environmentalists Allied for Recycling (BEAR)
Business Environmental Leadership Council
Cambodia: Independent Forest Monitor (Global Witness)
Cameroon: Forest Sector Monitoring (Global Witness)
Cancer and the Environment (Physicians for Social Responsibility)
Case studies: This new on-line case study collection showcases some of the best business actions for sustainable development from all over the globe. These case studies illustrate how companies work independently or with various stakeholders to integrate the challenge of sustainable development into their business activity. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)
CEDHA (Centro de Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente / Center for Human Rights and the Environment) {···english···español}
CEE Bankwatch Network (Network's mission is to prevent environmentally & socially harmful impacts of international development finance)
Center for Energy & Climate Solutions
Center for Health and the Global Environment (Harvard Medical School)
The Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), India
Centre for Transport and Energy (NGO based in Czech Republic)
Centro Latino Americano de Ecologia Social (CLAES) website (Latin American Center Social Ecology)
The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (World Bank)
Chad Development Project (ExxonMobil)
Chemical Industry Archives - a project of Environmental Working Group
Children's Environmental Health Network
The China Energy Technology Program: "A partnership for assessing a complete energy system" - The China Energy Technology Program, devised by ABB and the Alliance for Global Sustainability, is an extensive partnership program that brings together a diversity of participants to assess the relative costs and environmental performance of different strategies for meeting power demands in China. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)
Citigroup Campaign (Rainforest Action Network)
Citizens Network for Sustainable Development (USA)
Consultation Draft: Environment Strategy Progress Report (World Bank)
Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program (Public Citizen)
Cyanide Code of Practice: The Cyanide Management Code is being developed as a voluntary industry code for the gold mining industry under the direction of a multi-stakeholder Steering Committee formed under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Council on Metals and the Environment (ICME).
Dangerous Waters: This project aims to protect Cambodia's precious wetlands, wildlife and people by peacefully resolving fisheries conflicts and promoting sustainable community fisheries and alternative rural livelihoods. (Environmental Justice Foundation)
Death in Small Doses: What EJF is doing to combat harmful pesticide use in Cambodia (Environmental Justice Foundation)
Derechos Humanos y Ecología en Uruguay y América Latina website (CIPFE, Centro Franciscano del Uruguay) {español}
Dipuntian [Philippines]: Agta Indigenous Peoples and Rainforest Protection Center (Friends of Peoples Close to Nature)
Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index
Down to Earth: International Campaign for Ecological Justice in Indonesia
Down to Earth: Science and Environment Fortnightly (Centre for Science and Environment [India])
DuPont Cyrel Partners with Handicapped Workshops - The DuPont iTechnologies site in Parlin, New Jersey, recently launched a product recovery program that provides local jobs for disabled individuals and also helps the environment. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)
Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund (formerly Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund)
{···español} EcoPortal.net: El Directorio Ecológico y Natural (Argentina)
Edie: The online community for water, waste & environment professionals
emagazine.com [E / The Environmental Magazine]
The Energy Foundation: Toward a sustainable energy future
Envirodev: Environnement et Développement Durable {···français}
Environment (Global Trade Negotiations Home Page, Center for International Development at Harvard University)
Environment (Third World Network)
Environment (Council on Economic Priorities)
Environment [India] (InfoChange [India])
"Environment" materials, in Global Business Responsibility Resource Center (Business for Social Responsibility) Note: click "Environment" in column on left side of the website page which appears.
Environment Agency: UK Government
Environment and Health (Centre for Science and Environment [CSE], India)
Environment & Health (Physicians for Social Responsibility)
Environment and Human Rights Links (University of Minnesota Human Rights Library)
Environment and Human Rights Project (Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Environment and Human Rights Resources (Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Environment and sustainable development (International Chamber of Commerce)
Environment Policy Issues: Your Internet Guide to an Understanding of Policy Issues [USA] (News Batch)
Environmental distance learning course (National Centre for Business & Sustainability [UK])
Environmental Investigation Agency
Environmental Issues (Anup Shah, Global Issues)
Environmental Justice Foundation
Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
Environmental Law Service: Legal Protection of Environment and Human Rights (Czech Republic)
Environmental Mining Council of British Columbia [Canada]
Environmental Pollutants & Reproductive Health (Physicians for Social Responsibility)
Environmental and Social Responsibility Resolutions Filed for 2002 [relating to ExxonMobil] (Campaign ExxonMobil)
Environmental Working Group: Cutting-edge research on Health and the Environment
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing - Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) is a federal-wide program that encourages and assists Executive agencies in the purchasing of environmentally preferable products and services. (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
Export Credit and Investment Insurance Agencies: A Race to the Bottom (Friends of the Earth)
Exxon Valdez (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council
Forest Certification - The Debate: How "Green" Is Certifying the Environmental Acceptability of Old-Growth Logging? (Forests.org)
Forest Conservation Portal: Vast Rainforest, Forest and Biodiversity Conservation News & Information
Forest Stewardship Council {···english···español}
Friends of the Earth International
Friends of the Earth (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
Fundação Vitória Amazônica [Brazil] {···português}
Fundación Futuro LatinoAmericano (FFLA) {español}
Future Harvest [promotes awareness about the importance of food production and the role of agricultural science in meeting the human and environmental challenges of today and tomorrow]
Genetic Engineering (Greenpeace)
Global Agreements - global agreements with multinational companies and sectors [agreements covering labour rights, environment & other issues; companies include: Statoil, Freudenberg Group, Endesa, Norske Skog] (ICEM - International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions)
Global Environmental Coordination Initiative (GECI) [electronics industry initiative, with stated aim of orderly transition of the industry toward environmental compliance]
Global Forest Watch {···english···español···français}
Global Reporting Initiative: June 2000 GRI Guidelines
A Global Roadmap for Modern Biotechnology: An issues-based navigational tool with policy options for decision-makers in the public and private sectors (International Chamber of Commerce)
Global Trade Negotiations: Environment (Center for International Development at Harvard University)
Global Warming (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
Global Warming (Washington Post)
GM debate (Guardian [UK])
Goldman Environmental Prize: The international prize program for grassroots environmentalists
Green Design Index [environmental design issues relating to computers including eco-labeling, and advances in phasing out chemicals and metals, such as lead, halogenated compounds and CFCs] (Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition)
Green Rating Project: An assessment of Indian industries' environmental performance and social commitments (Centre for Science and Environment [CSE], India)
Green Scissors: Cutting Wasteful and Environmentally Harmful Spending [USA]
GreenBiz.com: the Resource Center on Business, the Environment, and the Bottom Line
Health Care Without Harm: The Campaign for Environmentally Responsible Health Care
The health hazards of environmental and occupational exposure [relating to high technology] - Lower income people of color live, work and play on the unhealthful front lines (Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition)
Health, Safety & Environment (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions)
Hospitals for a Healthy Environment
Human and Environmental Costs (Banana Link)
Human Rights and the Environment (Earth Day Network, Amnesty International, Sierra Club)
Indigenous Environmental Network website
Indigenous Mining Campaign (Indigenous Environmental Network)
INFORM: Strategies for a better environment
{···english···português} Instituto Socioambiental (Socio-Environmental Institute, Brazil)
Integrity in Science: The Integrity in Science project seeks to safeguard science and the public welfare from the corruptive effects of industry’s influence (Integrity in Science, a project of The Center for Science in the Public Interest)
The International Hotels Environment Initiative (Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum)
International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED)
International Program on Chemical Safety (World Health Organization, International Labour Organization and UN Environment Programme)
International Rivers Network (IRN)
International Society for Environmental Ethics
Johannesburg Climate Legacy 2002
Liberia: The Logs of War (Global Witness)
Mercury in Vehicles (Clean Car Campaign)
Mercury Work Group (MASCO - Medical Academic & Scientific Community Organization)
Mercury-Free Dentists: A Campaign of RiverSides Stewardship Alliance (Canada)
Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE): Drinking Water (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
The Mining Campaign (Community Aid Abroad [Oxfam Australia])
MiningWatch Canada / Mines Alerte: "Publications"
National Environmental Performance Track [recognises businesses that exceed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's environmental standards] (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
Natural Resources Defense Council
NIPR’s listing of key environmental Internet sites (NIPR - New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank)
Oil Refineries Update (Communities for a Better Environment [California])
Oilwatch (Ecuador) {···english···español}
Partnership Brokers Forum: Building Partnerships for Sustainable Development
Partnership for Indigenous Peoples Environment
Patagonia, Inc. website:
Enviro Action: What we do [steps taken by the company in its operations to reduce environmental harm]
Pesticide Action Network Pesticide Database (Pesticide Action Network North America)
Pesticides: Environmental and health effects (Pesticide Action Network North America)
{···français} pipelinewatch.org: Nous vous proposons ici un éclairage critique sur le projet pétrolier Tchad-Cameroun
Planet Ark: home of Reuters Daily World Environment News
Plastics and the environment (American Plastics Council)
Pollution and poverty (Friends of the Earth)
Power Plant News Alerts (Communities for a Better Environment [California])
Programa Empresa Responsable (CEDHA - Centro de Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente) {···español}
Project for Energy, Labor and the Environment: Renewable Energy Provides a Clean, Secure and Reliable Energy Future (The Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment)
PVC: The poison plastic (Greenpeace)
PVC industry (Greenpeace)
READIT - Rapid Environment And Development International Timetable - READIT covers 100s of sustainable development events and links - from the local to the global level. (Environment & Development Resource Centre)
Reducing Mercury - Binational Toxics Strategy (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency & Environment Canada)
Regional Air Pollution in Developing Countries (Stockholm Environment Institute)
Research Foundation for Science,Technology and Ecology (India)
Resolving the U'wa Issue [Colombia] (Occidental Petroleum)
Responsible Business Program: Working towards more socially sustainable economic development (CEDHA: Centro de Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente / Center for Human Rights and the Environment)
A Rights-Based Approach to Environment (A Programme Note: Implementing a Rights-Based Approach to Development in the Asia Region, United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific)
Rio Tinto: conservation partnership with Earthwatch (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)
Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment
Safer Chemicals (Friends of the Earth)
SANE BP (Shareholders Against New Oil Exploration)
Scorecard (Environmental Defense)
SD Gateway (Sustainable Development Gateway)
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Social and Environmental Accounting (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants [ACCA])
Southern Business Challenge: a new international network bringing together progressive companies and entrepreneurs from developing countries to promote an action agenda for sustainability and social justice (Centre for Social Markets)
Special Report: Global Warming (Guardian [UK])
Supercourse: Health and Environment in Sustainable Development (Dr Hiko Tamashiro, Office of Global and Integrated Environmental Health, World Health Organization)
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security (Friends of the Earth)
Sustainable Business Institute
Sustainable Cocoa Program (Chocolate and Cocoa.org, official site for the U.S. chocolate industry)
Sustainable development - what is it? (John Elkington, Chairman, SustainAbility)
Sustainable Trade Program: Working towards socially and environmentally sustainable development (CEDHA: Centro de Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente / Center for Human Rights and the Environment)
Thai Business Council: Green Label Scheme -...The TBCSD [Thailand Business Council for Sustainable Development] initiated a Green Label Scheme soon after it was established. This provides an environmental certification for products that are shown to have minimum detrimental impact on the environment, compared to other products serving the same functions. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)
Thailand Environment Institute
Toxic Chemicals (World Wildlife Fund)
Toxics News Alerts (Communities for a Better Environment [California])
Trade-and-environment material on the WTO website
Trade and Environment website (Canadian Environmental Law Association)
Training and Events (National Centre for Business & Sustainability [UK])
The Triple Bottom Line (Sustainability)
Uneterre.net {···français}
Union of Concerned Scientists: Citizens and Scientists for Environmental Solutions
Upcoming events (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Virtual Exhibition: Showcasing sustainable development initiatives around the world
Virtual University [online courses on sustainable development]: The WBCSD offers you two introduction courses built around the topics Sustainable Development and Scenarios, the Global Scenario Challenge and the Sustainable Business Challenge. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)
Vulnerable Forests (World Wildlife Fund)
Western Power: the Greening Challenge [Australia] -...The partnership is an effort by Western Power, Landcare (a non-profit agency addressing land care issues) and state government officials to help stop soil degradation issues. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)
Working Group on Environmental Justice (Harvard University)
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
World Resources Institute {···english···español}
World Summit Business Awards for Sustainable Development Partnerships:...The Awards highlight concrete actions taken by business organizations in partnership with other stakeholders for sustainable development. (International Chamber of Commerce, in association with United Nations Environment Programme)
www.floodwallstreet.org / The Three Gorges Action Coalition [human rights and environmental groups working to halt the flow of foreign capital to the Three Gorges Dam in China]