Environment Information International Organizations

• Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment - seeks to advance understanding of human interactions in the environment, serving the needs of science and decision making, by providing access to and enhancing the use of information worldwide

• Communications for a Sustainable Future - founded on the idea that computer networking could be used to enhance communications with the objective of working through disparate views and ideologies to secure a more promising future  

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

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), The - seeks to design, implement, co-ordinate, and promote the compilation, linking, standardisation, digitisation and global dissemination of the world’s biodiversity data  

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System - authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, and microbes of North America and the world  

• International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases - provides an international forum for biological data projects while developing and promoting the use of standards to facilitate data exchange  

• NIK - Roadmap for Sustainable Information- and Communication Technology - a German Ministry of Education and Science project that supports development of an Information Society in support of sustainable development  

• NRM Tracker - a tool for real time learning from local and community-based natural resource management initiatives (CBNRM) in Africa, allowing users to enter their own experiences and learn from others  

• Regional Workbench - a collaborative, web-based network of researchers and community partners dedicated to creating knowledge and linking that knowledge to action for sustainable development, including urban and regional planning

• Sustainability at the speed of light - a report by WWF Sweden that looks at the environmental consequences of Information and communication technologies (ICT), and the potential to use them in the pursuit of sustainability