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Sites for Environment
David Suzuki Foundation - www.davidsuzuki.org/default.asp
Since 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us. Focusing on four program areas – oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and the Nature Challenge - the Foundation uses science and education to promote solutions that conserve nature and help achieve sustainability within a generation.
Environment & Urbanization - eau.sagepub.com/
Twice-yearly journal focuses on urban and environmental issues and their interconnections, with a particular emphasis on Africa, Asia and Latin America. Founded in 1989 by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), from 2006, it will be published by Sage, in association with IIED.
International Institute for Sustainable Development - www.iisd.org/about/
IISD is in the business of promoting change towards sustainable development. As a policy research institute dedicated to effective communication of our findings, we engage decision-makers in government, business, NGOs and other sectors in the development and implementation of policies that are simultaneously beneficial to the global economy, the global environment and to social well-being.
IUCN World Conservation Union - www.iucn.org/
UN Convention on Biological Diversity - www.cbd.int/default.shtml
UN Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) - www.cms.int/
CMS, or Bonn Convention, is an intergovernmental treaty, concluded under the aegis of the United Nations Environment Programme, concerned with the conservation of wildlife and habitats on a global scale.
UN Environment Programme (UNEP) - www.unep.org/
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - unfccc.int/2860.php
Website of the international treaty formed to begin to consider what can be done to reduce global warming and to cope with whatever temperature increases are inevitable. The Kyoto Protocol is an addition to the treaty, which has more powerful (and legally binding) measures, emission reduction targets for industrialised countries.
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