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International NGOs and Networks
African Centre for Biosafety
The African Centre for Biosafety was conceived in response to the assessed urgent need to address the actual and potential risks posed by genetic engineering (GE) on the African continent by campaigning for GMOs to be subject to the most stringent biosafety measures.
Amazon Watch
NGO that works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development-oil and gas pipelines, power lines, roads, and other mega-projects.
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Earth Day Network
Biosafety Information Centre
Managed by the Third World Network, the Biosafety Information Centre aims to provide a flow of information, particularly to policy makers, regulators, scientists, researchers and civil society organisations in developing countries.
Climate Funds Update
This website, developed by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, provides information on the growing number of international funding initiatives that have been designed to help developing countries address the challenges of climate change.
Environmental Defense
Environmental Defense is a nonprofit organization, represents more than 300,000 members. Since 1967, Environmental Defense has linked science, economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships to create breakthrough solutions to the most serious environmental problems.
Friends of the Earth International (FOEI)
Federation of autonomous environmental organizations from 66 countries, campaigning on the most urgent environmental and social issues, while simultaneously catalyzing a shift toward sustainable societies.
GreenNet
Organization dedicated to supporting and promoting groups and individuals working for peace, human rights and the environment, through the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
Greenpeace
International organization with offices in 39 countries.
Real world radio
Real World Radio (RWR) is a multilingual radio on the web, functioning in the auspices of the communication area of the environmentalist group Friends of the Earth International (FoEI).
Remember Saro-wiwa
Coalition of organisations and individuals which aims to create a Living Memorial to activist and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa in London, using art and activism to raise awareness and campaign for environmental and social justice in the Niger Delta.
The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
Founded in 1948, IUCN brings together 78 states, 112 government agencies, 735 NGOs, 35 affiliates, and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a worldwide partnership. Its mission is 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.
The World Conservation Union Regional Office for Southern Africa (IUCN - ROSA)
IUCN - ROSA is part of the international membership organisation, IUCN, which brings together states, governments and a diverse range of Non-Governmental Organisations in a global partnership concerned with environmental issues.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Independent organization working in around 100 countries, dedicated to the conservation of nature. Its principal aims are: conserving the world's biological diversity; ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable; and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.
 
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Recommended NGOs
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.

Campaigns
No role for World Bank in management of climate finance!
Ask the UN to convene the next Global Water Forum
NEWS
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.
UN climate conference – Copenhagen, December 2009 Mining Agrofuels Divisions in Africa over GM crops
Tourism Oil fueling conflicts Biotechnology and biosafety Wetlands conservation
Hazardous waste trafficking The water crisis GM food Climate change
Desertification Rio+10: Earth Summit 2002   

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