Environment
Organizations, Programs and Campaigns
Friends of the Earth International
Friends of the Earth International is a federation of autonomous environmental organizations from all over the world. Our members, in 66 countries, campaign on the most urgent environmental and social issues of our day, while simultaneously catalyzing a shift toward sustainable societies.
Friends of the Earth UK
Friends of the Earth is one of the leading environmental pressure groups in the UK
Greenpeace International
Greenpeace is an independent, campaigning organisation that uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and force solutions for a green and peaceful future. Greenpeace's goal is to ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity.
IUCN - The World Conservation Union
Founded in 1948, The World Conservation Union brings together States, government agencies and a diverse range of non-governmental organizations in a unique world partnership. As a Union, IUCN seeks to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. Through its six Commissions, IUCN draws together over 10,000 expert volunteers.
UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations agency for the global environment. UNEP works to encourage sustainable development through sound environmental practices everywhere.
World Resources Instiitute
WRI is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives. World Resources Institute provides information, ideas, and solutions to global environmental problems.
WorldWatch Institute
Worldwatch is a non profit public policy research organization dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental support systems.
WWF International
WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by: conserving the world's biological diversity; ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable; promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption. Since it was founded in 1961, WWF has become one of the world's largest and most effective independent organizations dedicated to the conservation of nature.
WWF U.S. - World Wildlife fund
WWF is the U.S. affiliate of the international WWF network
Other Information and Websites
Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge
PBS television program website, based on the WRI World Resources Report 2000-01.
EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal
Data databases on various environmental issues.
World Resources Institute
UN EathWatch
The UN System-wide Earthwatch mechanism is UNEP’s umbrella initiative to work with UN agencies in order to exchange and share environmental information, and support ongoing global assessment and reporting activities by giving access to relevant documents, indicators and other information products.
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