Environment   
 
RECOMMENDED

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
Arab Office for Youth & Environment (AOYE)
AOYE ecourages young people to get involved in environmental issues. It serves as a focal point of the Arab Network for Environment and Development. Egypt.
Arava Institute for Environmental Studies
The institute offers Egyptian, Israeli, Jordanian, Palestinian and overseas students an intensive hands-on academic program focussing on environment. It serves as a regional center for conservation and environmental protection activities. Israel.
Argentinian Foundation of Etoecology
The organization puts emphasis in the education as a behavior transformer of the human being and therefore of its practice and uses in the environment, for the etoecology study and exercise.
Arid Lands Information Network - ALIN - Eastern Africa
They work to improve the development practices of community development workers (CDWs) in the East African drylands by facilitating the exchange of experience among them, and disseminating appropriate information in a usable form.
BanglaPraxis
BanglaPraxis is an activist organization in Bangladesh, working on IFIs, ecology (rivers), water privatization and mining.
Centre for Human Rights and Environment (CEDHA)
Based in Argentina, CEDHA is a non-profit organization which aims to build a more harmonious relationship between the environment and people by promoting greater access to justice and guarantee human rights for victims of environmental degradation, or due to non-sustainable management of natural resources, and to prevent future violations.
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
One of India’s leading environmental NGOs with a deep interest in sustainable natural resource management. The Centre’s work programme is built around the following five broad objectives: Awareness Raising; Policy Research; Advocacy; Education and Training; and Documentation. India.
Centro Ecológico Akumal (CEA)
CEA is a non-profit,non-governmental organization that conducts scientific investigations into the health of the regional environment and reports the findings in educational ways that touch the local Maya, the developers, the Akumal residents and visitors alike. Mexico.
Climate Network Africa
Climate Network Africa (CNA) is a non-governmental organization registered in Kenya. CNA has operated since May 1991 and was started as an initiative of a group of Non-governmental Organizations and institutions to lobby and advocate for relevant policy changes on climate change related issues in Africa.
CRACYP
CRACYP (which stands for Rural Reforestation and Progress Network Corporation, in Spanish) is a non profit organisation facilitating reforestation and sustainable rural development in an agricultural area of extreme poverty including over 200 communities in the foothills of the Western Andes in Ecuador.
Earthlife Africa
Association of volunteer activists concerned with a wide range of environmental justice issues. Earthlife also conceived the Greenhouse People's Environmental Centre Project. South Africa.
Environment and Development Action in the Third World (ENDA-TM)
International association of autonomous entities working on development and environment themes. Enda collaborates with grassroots groups in search of alternative development models on the basis of the experience, expectations and objectives of marginalised peoples. Senegal.
Environment Liaison Centre International (ELCI)
Global network of NGOs and CBOs working on environment and development issues. ELCI was established to monitor the activities of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and to help NGOs and UNEP to work together more effectively.
Environmental Justice Networking Forum (EJNF)
EJNF is a loose alliance and network of over 266 South African non-profit community-based and non-governmental organizations united to bring about environmental justice in the world.
Environmental Rights Action (ERA)
ERA is an environmental watch group located in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. ERA publishes a monthly Niger Delta ALERT magazine, and testimonies of residents of the region. ERA also has reports on multinational oil corporations operating in Nigeria's Niger Delta.
Page: 1 2 3 [>>]
 
International and Regional Organizations
International NGOs and Networks
Information Resources
 


People
Society
Environment
   Biodiversity
   Energy
   Natural Resources
   Sustainable Development
   Toxic Chemicals and Waste
   Water & Oceans
Communication
Globalization
 

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.

 
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.’
Fuente: Pambazuka

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   

Choike is a project of the Third World Institute supported by Hivos and the Mott Foundation
www.choike.org | Contact | Phone / Fax: +598 (2) 902-0490 | 18 de julio 1077/903, Montevideo URUGUAY