Environment Development International Organizations

•   Economics and Sustainable Development - gives practical, political and research information on sustainable development and environmental economics  

• Sustainable Development Communications Network - seeking to accelerate the implementation of sustainable development through broader, integrated information and communications about what we know  

• Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment (USDE) - responding to the needs of member states on issues relating to sustainable development within an economic development context  

• Center for a Sustainable Economy - promotes innovative tax and other market-based approaches to achieving a sustainable economy that integrates long-term economic growth, environmental quality and social fairness  

• Center for Excellence for Sustainable Development - the U.S. Department of Energy provides a framework under which communities can use resources efficiently, create efficient infrastructures, protect and enhance quality of life, and create new businesses to strengthen their economies  

• Development Gateway - an interactive portal for information and knowledge sharing on sustainable development and poverty reduction  

• Disposable Planet - BBC News Online presents a six-part special on sustainable development that asks what future their is for our Planet (

• Ecologically Sustainable Development - development that aims to meet the needs of Australians today, while conserving our ecosystems for the benefit of future generations  

• Encyclopedia of Sustainable Development - is a one-stop source of information on sustainable development  

• Environment and Sustainable Development (ESD) - focuses on the interactions between human activities and the natural environment and their implications for the sustainable management of natural resources  

• European DataBank Sustainable Development - lists institutions, associations, societies and experts throughout Europe involved theoretically and/or practically in the achievement of Sustainable Development  

• European Partners for the Environment (EPE) - a network of European organizations, companies, trade unions and related groups working on sustainable development which builds the ground for consensus on sustainability  

• Global Development and Environment Institute - Tufts University - a research institute dedicated to promoting a new understanding of how societies can pursue their economic goals in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner  

•   Global Environment Outlook 3 - UNEP provides an overview of the main environmental developments over the past three decades, and how social, economic and other factors have contributed to the changes that have occurred; timed to contribute to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg (pdf)  

• Global Sustainable Development Resolution - a House Resolution on the global economy that provides Members of Congress concerned about globalization to present ideas for an alternative approach for a "new financial architecture" and to force debate on the future of the global economy  

• Great Plains Institiute for Sustainable Development - goal is to sustain the communities of the Great Plains by providing information and policy analysis needed to maintain a vibrant economy and a healthy enjoyable environment  

• Greatplains.org - "how-to" extension information to inventories and atlases of Great Plains natural resources to interactive forums and discussion areas for sharing information  

• Health and Environment in Sustainable Development - extracts from the report, selected figures and tables, and the conclusions in full on environment in sustainable development  

• International Development Network-Information Resource for Sustainable Development - promotes sustainable development initiatives and projects by providing access to development related information and related resources  

• International Institute for Environment and Development - promotes sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies, networking and knowledge dissemination

• International Institute for Sustainable Development - demonstrate how human ingenuity can be applied to improve the well-being of the environment, economy and society  

• International Lake Environment Committee - aims to promote environmentally sound management of natural and man-made lakes and their environments consistent with sustainable development policies by promoting international research

• International Society for Ecological Economics - facilitates understanding between economists and ecologists and the integration of their thinking into a transdiscipline committed to developing a sustainable world  

• International Sustainable Development Foundation (ISDF) - accelerates the understanding and use of sustainable design and development practices locally and internationally  

• LakeNet - a global network of people and organizations dedicated to the conservation and sustainable management of lakes