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Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN)- Eastern Africa is a network of Community Development Workers (CDWs) who are involved in drylands development.
People United for Environmental Justice (PURE-Justice) is a growing coalition of NGOs concerned with the impacts of oil exploration and exploitation on communities in the Niger Delta. It is committed to achieving environmental justice across the Niger Delta.
A worldwide network of over 340 Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.
Non-profit environmental justice service and developmental organization working primarily in South Africa but increasingly in Southern Africa. It aims to assist and improve the quality of life of the people most affected by environmental injustices.
Broad civil society network of organizations, movements, local communities, trade unions, churches and citizens, from four different south-eastern Brazilian states, who are concerned about the on-going expansion of eucalyptus plantations in their regions, as well as the sale of "carbon credits"; at the same time, the network tries to show the viability of alternative models of development being implemented by several member movements and communities at the grassroots level.
 
NGO sites
Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME)
Regional environmental organization of Jordanians, Israelis and Palestinians working together to promote sustainable development and peace building through environmental awareness.
Gender and Environment
Gender and environment is an initiative for the Social Program of the World Conservation Union, Regional Office for Mesoamerica.
Green Coalition Network
Green Coalition is an independent self funded non-governmental advocacy organization dedicated to improving public health standards, protecting the environment and promoting sustainable development & ethical business. India.
Green Korea United
GKU is a civic organization working to expand green consciousness and democratic principles nationwide by actively conducting local and national-level education programs and various campaign activities. It is also committed to building and maintaining an ecologically sound and sustainable Korean peninsula and world.
Green Line
Lebanese environmental NGO whose mission is to promote environmental awareness and document environmental threats in order to better confront them.
groundWork
A non-profit environmental justice service and developmental organization, groundWork seeks to improve the quality of life of vulnerable people in South Africa, and increasingly in Southern Africa, through assisting civil society to have a greater impact on environmental governance.
Group for Environmental Monitoring
GEM works with communities affected by environmental policy and policy makers to ensure that people's needs are not ignored, thereby promoting implementation of sustainable development principles. Since its inception, GEM has contributed to the process of shifting the environmental policy paradigm towards a social justice approach by combining lobbying, advocacy, research and community work. South Africa.
Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership
A non-profit organization dedicated to building and strengthening the rapidly growing environmental movement in Israel. It's mission is to develop and promote a vision for a sustainable society in Israel.
Honduran Environmental Found
The Foundation attends the needs for training and technical assistance, in the different stages, for the projects executed by the organizations.
Indian Environment Online - IEO
Magazine maintained by Society for Environmental Information and Sustainable Development, New Delhi. It unites organizations and individuals in India and it is dedicated to providing extensive environmental information and news. India.
Individual and Community Rights Advocacy Forum Inc. (ICRAF)
ICRAF was established to deal with human rights, environmental destruction and land rights issues in Papua New Guinea. ICRAF aims to provide legal services on human rights and environmental issues, to carry out awareness and educational campaigns and to monitor the abuse of human rights and environmental destruction. Programs are delivered through three desks and lawyers: Human Rights, Women's and Land & Environment Desks.
Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI)
WALHI is the largest forum of non-government and community-based organisations in Indonesia. It is represented in 25 provinces and has over 438 member organisations. It stands for social transformation, peoples sovereignty, and sustainability of life and livelihoods.
Korean Federation for Environmental Movement
Korea's largest environmental organization, involved in global environmental issues, such as depletion of the ozone layer, deforestration, biodiversity and climate change.
Maghreb Machrek Alliance for Water (ALMAE)
Based in Morocco, ALMAE participates on the debate on the choices for development and environment, and considers access to clean water as a fundamental right of every citizen.
NetPEM
A network of professional and students working in the field of Preventive Environmental Management within Asia, through Research and advisory services, Advance Learning and Training and Exchange of Information. India.
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Selected news
U.N. Decade Hopes to Push Back Encroaching Deserts
Mon Aug 16 2010 - Source: IPS
Desertification has long been recognised as a major environmental, economic and social problem for countries the world over. But despite major efforts, which started with the United Nations Conference on Desertification (UNOCD) in 1977, the process of land degradation is intensifying.
Chair issues draft text as Kyoto Protocol session ends
Thu Aug 12 2010 - Source: TWN
The week-long session of the working group under the Kyoto Protocol ended on Friday 6 August with the issuance of a new 50-page draft proposal by the Chair of the group, and a closing plenary in which developing countries strongly criticised developed countries for their so far abysmal plans to cut emissions and the apparent refusal of many of them to commit to a second commitment period of the Protocol.
Cooking Up a Climate Deal
Mon Aug 09 2010 - Source: IPS
Another round of negotiations towards a global treaty on climate change concluded in Bonn, with activists calling on parties to rediscover a spirit of compromise and make offers rather than demands.

 
Oil fueling conflicts - Wed Aug 04 2010
Throughout the continent, ‘oil has correlated with imperial subjugation, local authoritarianism and flagrant human rights abuses’. Citing examples of the devastating consequences a growing global hunger for energy has had for communities and ecosytems in oil-bearing regions, Oilwatch Africa calls for the world to start weaning itself from its ‘addiction to oil’ by ‘investing more in renewable energy, energy efficiency, better public transportation and small decentralised energy projects.’
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UN climate conference – Copenhagen, December 2009 Mining Agrofuels Divisions in Africa over GM crops
Tourism Oil fueling conflicts Biotechnology and biosafety Wetlands conservation
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