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| Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) |
| Earth Council |
| European Environment Agency (EEA) |
| Fondazione Enrico Mattei |
| Friends of the Earth |
| Global Environment Facility (GEF) |
| Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) |
| Green Cross International |
| INECE |
| International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) |
| International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) |
| International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED) |
| Marine Stewardship Council |
| Portforlio of Water Actions (PWA) |
| Ramsar Convention on Wetlands |
| Resources for the Future (RFF) |
| Stockholm Environment Institute |
| The Rainforest Alliance |
| UNCSD |
| UNED Forum |
| UNEP |
| UN FAO |
| UNEP IETC |
| World Bank |
| World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) |
| World Conservation Monitoring Centre |
| World Health Organisation (WHO) |
| World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) |
| World Resources Institute (WRI) |
| World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) |
| Worldwatch Institute |
| WWF Global Network |
| UNFCCC |
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| Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) |
| One of the key agreements adopted at Rio, and since ratified by many governments, was the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The CBD establishes three main goals: the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components, and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits from the use of genetic resources. |
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| Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) |
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| Earth Council |
| An international NGO to advance the implementation of the Earth Summit agreements, the Earth Council promotes awareness for the needed transition to more sustainable and equitable patterns of development, encourages public participation in decision-making processes at all levels of government, and builds bridges between civil society and governments world-wide. |
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| European Environment Agency (EEA) |
| The EEA aims to support sustainable development and to help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe's environment through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy making agents and the public. |
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| European Environment Agency (EEA) |
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| Fondazione Enrico Mattei |
| A non-profit, non-partisan research institution established to carry out research in the field of sustainable development. One of its aims is to promote interaction between academic, industrial and public policy spheres in order to comprehensively address concerns about economic development and environmental degradation. It host the site of the Global Network of Environmental Economics. |
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| Fondazione Enrico Mattei |
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| Friends of the Earth |
| A federation of autonomous environmental organizations from all over the world, campaigning on the most urgent environmental and social issues of our day, and catalysing a shift toward sustainable societies. |
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| Friends of the Earth |
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| Global Environment Facility (GEF) |
| GEF funds defray the added costs of making planned projects environmentally friendly and finance regional approaches to multinational problems. GEF partnerships unite governments, non-governmental organizations, scientists & the private sector behind cost-effective solutions that pave the way for sustainable economic development. |
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| Global Environment Facility (GEF) |
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| Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) |
| An international, multi-stakeholder effort to create a common framework for the voluntary reporting of the economic, environmental and social impacts of organisation-level activity. GRI objective is to elevate the comparability and credibility of sustainability reporting practices world-wide. |
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| Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) |
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| Green Cross International |
| Green Cross International was founded in 1993 as a non-governmental, non-profit organisation. Their mission is to help create a sustainable future by cultivating harmonious relationships between humans and the environment. Green Cross concentrates its efforts on five programmes whose common theme is to promote a significant change in human values leading to greater respect and care for Earth's community of life in all its diversity, and to address the environmental causes and consequences of wars and conflict. |
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| INECE |
| The International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE) is an intentional partnership promoting compliance and enforcement of domestic and international environmental laws through networking, capacity building, and enforcement co-operation. Comprises 2,500 practitioners from international organisations, governmental agencies and NGOs. |
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| International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) |
| The ICFTU organises and directs campaigns on the respect of trade unions and workers' rights, the eradication of forced child labour, the promotion of equal rights for working women, the environment, education programmes for trade unionists around the world, the encouragement of the organisation of young workers, and the investigation of the trade union situation in many countries. |
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| International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) |
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| International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) |
| ICLEI is an association of local governments dedicated to the prevention and solution of local, regional, and global environmental problems through local action. Members include approximately 300 cities, towns, counties, and their associations from around the world. |
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| International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) |
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| International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED) |
| An independent, non-profit organisation which promotes sustainable patterns of world development through research, policy studies, consensus building and public information. With a focus equity and justice, and the rights and needs of poor people, IIED address the connections between economic development, the environment and human needs, with the aim to improve the management of natural resources so that communities and countries of the South can improve living standards without jeopardising their resource base. |
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| International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED) |
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| Marine Stewardship Council |
| A charitable, non-governmental, international organisation to promote sustainable fisheries and responsible fishing practices world-wide through long term, market based solutions which meet the needs and objectives of both the environment and commerce. |
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| Marine Stewardship Council |
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| Portforlio of Water Actions (PWA) |
| The PWA is the outcome of the ministerial conference of the 3rd World Water Forum, which has collected over 500 water actions voluntarily by governments and international organizations throughout the world to cope with a hot issue of water-related problems. |
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| Portfolio of Water Actions (PWA) |
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| Ramsar Convention on Wetlands |
| The Convention on Wetlands is an intergovernmental treaty adopted in 1971, and entered in to force in 1975. Its original emphasis was on the conservation and wise use of wetlands primarily to provide habitat for waterbirds. Over the years the Convention has broadened its scope to cover all aspects of wetland conservation and wise use, recognising wetlands as ecosystems that are extremely important for biodiversity conservation in general and for the well-being of human communities. |
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| Resources for the Future (RFF) |
| RFF is a non-profit and non-partisan think tank that conducts independent research - rooted primarily in economics and other social sciences - on environmental and natural resource issues. RFF works on a variety of issues, ranging from climate change to electric utility restructuring to sustainable forestry. RFF has championed two fundamental principles of policy analysis: first, it is impossible to make sensible environmental policy decisions without balancing (if only in a qualitative way) the costs and benefits of proposed alternatives; second, once environmental goals are established, it is essential that they are accomplished in the most inexpensive way possible. |
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| Stockholm Environment Institute |
| An independent international research institute specializing in sustainable development and environment issues. It works at local, national, regional and global policy levels. Its research programme aims to clarify the requirements, strategies and policies for a transition to sustainability. |
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| Stockholm Environment Institute |
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| The Rainforest Alliance |
| An international non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of tropical forests for the benefit of the global community. Its mission is to promote economically viable and socially desirable alternatives to the destruction of this endangered, biologically diverse natural resource, through education, research, and co-operative partnerships with businesses, governments and local peoples. |
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| The Rainforest Alliance |
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| UNCSD |
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| UNED Forum |
| UNED Forum is an international multi-stakeholder organization committed to the promotion of global sustainable development. UNED's primary objective is to facilitate the involvement of major groups in the work of the United Nations and other inter-governmental institutions. |
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| UNEP |
| Established as the outcome of the Stockholm Environment Conference in 1972, UNEP is charged with the implementation of global and regional environment conventions, providing and integrated and coherent policy response to existing and emerging environmental concerns and raising consciousness and awareness about how peoples actions negatively affect the environment. |
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| UNEP |
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| UN FAO |
| FAO works to alleviate poverty and hunger by promoting agricultural development, improved nutrition and the pursuit of food security. The Organization offers direct development assistance, collects, analyses and disseminates information, provides policy and planning advice to governments and acts as an international forum for debate on food and agriculture issues. |
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| UNEP IETC |
| The International Environmental Technology Centre was established by UNEP in 1992 to promote the application of environmentally sound technologies to address urban environmental problems, such as sewage, air pollution, solid waste and noise, and the management of freshwater resources to developing and transition countries. |
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| World Bank |
| The world's largest source of development assistance, the World Bank uses its financial resources, staff, and knowledge base to help each developing country onto a path of stable, sustainable, and equitable growth. |
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| World Bank |
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| World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) |
| A coalition of 125 international companies with a shared commitment to sustainable development, WBCSD aims to develop closer co-operation between business, government and all other organizations concerned with the environment and sustainable development, and to encourage high standards of environmental management by business. |
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| World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) |
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| World Conservation Monitoring Centre |
| The WCMC provides information, data and indicators to support decision-makers in the development of policy and action to conserve the living world. Its programmes concentrate on species, forests, protected areas, marine, mountains and freshwater; plus habitats affected by climate change (such as polar regions). They also address the relationship between trade and the environment, and the wider aspects of biodiversity assessment. |
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| World Conservation Monitoring Centre |
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| World Health Organisation (WHO) |
| The objective of WHO is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health, comprehensively defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. |
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| World Health Organisation (WHO) |
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| World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) |
| WMO co-ordinates global scientific activity to allow prompt and accurate weather information and other services for public, private and commercial use, including international airline and shipping industries. WMO's activities contribute to the safety of life and property, the socio-economic development of nations and the protection of the environment. |
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| World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) |
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| World Resources Institute (WRI) |
| World Resources Institute provides information, ideas, and solutions to global environmental problems, with a focus of safeguarding the Earth's climate, protecting the ecosystems upon which human well-being depends, reducing the use of materials and generation of wastes, and guarantee all people's access to environmental information and decisions regarding natural resources and the environment. |
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| World Resources Institute (WRI) |
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| World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) |
| The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) was held in Johannesburg from 26 August - 4 September 2002. It reviewed progress made towards sustainable development in the 10 years since the Earth Summit of 1992, identified the challenges that still remain, and provided an opportunity to forge new commitments and partnerships to address these challenges. It brought together an estimated 65000 participants, including heads of State and Government, national delegates and leaders from NGOs, businesses and other major groups. |
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| World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) |
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| Worldwatch Institute |
| The Worldwatch Institute combines interdisciplinary research, global focus, and accessible writing to make it a leading source of information on the interactions among key environmental, social, and economic trends. The work revolves around the transition to an environmentally sustainable and socially just society, and how to achieve it. |
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| Worldwatch Institute |
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| WWF Global Network |
| One of the world's largest and most effective independent organizations dedicated to the conservation of nature, this WWF site provides information on initiatives to protect animals and plants threatened with extinction, as well as the many forms of pollution that are harming the soil, atmosphere, freshwater and oceans, which sustain life. |
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| WWF Global Network |
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| UNFCCC |
| The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted in May 1992, and entered into force in March 1994. The UNFCCC sets an ultimate objective of stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous human-induced interference with the climate system. The Kyoto Protocol of the UNFCCC was adopted in December 1997, and is expected to enter into force in 2003. |
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| UNFCCC |
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