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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.

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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