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UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme
UNEP Promotes environmental understanding, and increases public knowledge about environmental factors and problems of future generations.
UNEP - Chemicals
UNEP Chemicals is the center for all chemicals-related activities of the United Nations Environment Programme.
The Stockholm Convention
The Stockholm Convention is a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The Rotterdam Convention
The Convention creates legally binding obligations for the implementation of the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure.
The Basel Convention
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal.
SAICM - Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management
the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) is a policy framework for international action on chemical hazards.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
To reduce global warming and to cope with whatever temperature increases are inevitable.
International Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS)
IFCS is a flexible, open and transparent brainstorming and bridge-building forum.
Regional Seas Conventions
The Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans cover issues ranging from chemical wastes and coastal development to the conservation of marine animals and ecosystems.
UNEP Climate Change Net
This portal is a central source for substantive work and information resources regarding climate change.
NGO Links:
ACPO - Associaciacao de Combate aos POPs -
The ACPO acts in the combat against the environmental and human contamination (occupational and urban), caused by the industrial chemical pollution with special attention to Persistent Organic Poluentes - POPs.
Alaska Community Action on Toxics -
A non-profit statewide organization that deals with toxics issues including military, mining, air and water quality, POPs and pesticides.
Alberni Environmental Coalition -
Albertine Rift Conservation Society -
ARCOS - Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS) is an indigenous regional organization that was established in 1995 to serve as a means of exchanging information relevant to conservation in the Albertine Rift as well as sensitizing and influencing the public on the values of biodiversity and sustainable resource use.
Armenian Women for Health&Healthy Environment (AWHHE) -
AWHHE has been formed in1999 with the mission: to promote sustainable and healthy lifestyle in particular for children and women in Armenia, working in the direction of decreasing the persistent toxic pollutants on the environment and health; to lobby governmental officials on POPs elimination issues.
Arnika -
ARNIKA was established at the end of September 2001 by a part of activists working formerly with the first Czech "after-velvet revolution" ecological organization Children of the Earth.
Asociacion Argentina de Medicos por el Medio Ambiente (AAMMA) -
AAMMA works on education and information on impacts on health of environmental changes and promotion environmental epidemiological research.
Basel Action Network -
BAN is a global network of toxics and development activist organizations that share a vision of international environmental justice. We seek to prevent all forms of "toxic trade" -- in toxic wastes, toxic products and toxic technologies.
CALLA -
Civic Society for the Environment -
Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) -
Center for Environmental Studies -
Center for Health, Environment & Justice -
The Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ) was founded in 1981, as the Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste (CCHW), by Lois Gibbs community leader at Love Canal. CHEJ believes in environmental justice, the principle that people have the right to a clean and healthy environment regardless of their race or economic standing. The Center believes the most effective way to win environmental justice is from the bottom up through community organizing and empowerment. CHEJ seeks to help local citizens and organizations come together and take an organized, unified stand in order to hold industry and government accountable and work toward a healthy, environmentally sustainable future.
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) -
The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) is a public interest, not-for-profit environmental law firm founded in 1989 to strengthen international and comparative environmental law and policy around the world.
Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) -
The Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) is an independent, non-profit [U.S. 501(c)(3)] research and education organization dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples and the social, economic and political realities of indigenous nations.
Clean Water Action -
Clean Water Action is a national citizens' organization working for clean, safe and affordable water, prevention of health-threatening pollution, creation of environmentally-safe jobs and businesses, and empowerment of people to make democracy work.
Commonweal -
Commonweal is a nonprofit health and environmental research institute in Bolinas, California. Founded in 1976, Commonweal conducts programs that contribute to human and ecosystem health — to a safer world for people and for all life.
Communities Against Toxics -
Founded in 1990 Communities Against Toxics (CATs) is a 'Clearing House' for information on hazardous waste, incineration, landfill, chemicals & health etc. and is the centre of a network/coalition of communities sharing their experiences of living with unsafe, polluting industrial facilities.
EarthRights International -
ERI is a nonprofit group of activists, organizers, and lawyers with expertise in human rights, the environment, and corporate and government accountability. ERI has offices in the U.S. and Southeast Asia.
ECO-Accord Centre on Environment and Sustainable Development -
Eco-Accord Center is non-governmental, non-profit organization, founded in 1992 to promote the realization of the decisions adopted at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro.
EcoPravo-Kharkiv -
Kharkiv City Public Organization EcoPravo-Kharkiv was founded in 1993 and reregistered in 1996. The Organization is specialized in the field of environmental law, and citizens rights protection; provides legal aid to citizens and non-governmental organizations in protecting their environmental rights. Director of Kharkiv City Public Organization EcoPravo-Kharkiv is Dr. Alexei M. Shumilo.
Environmental Media Services (EMS) -
Nonprofit communications clearinghouse dedicated to helping reporters cover environmental and public health issues.
GAIA Agency -
GAIA Agency seeks ways to cultivate new attitudes toward the environment and among people themselves. Czech Republic.
German NGO Forum Environment & Development -
Umbrella Network of 40 German environment and development organizations participating in the Rio process, established after UNCED 1992. The objectives are: coordinating the lobbying activities, media activities before and during the relevant conferences, organization of NGO workshops etc. Contact person - Jürgen Maier.
Global Response -
Global Response empowers people of all ages, cultures, and nationalities to protect the environmentby creating partnerships for effective citizen action. At the request of indigenous peoples and grassroots organizations, Global Response organizes urgent international letter campaigns to help communities prevent many kinds of environmental destruction. Global Response involves young people as well as adults in these campaigns to develop in them the values and skills for global citizen cooperation and earth stewardship.
Great Lakes Center for Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health -
Green Circle -
Czech Republic.
Greenpeace International -
Greenpeace is a non-profit organisation. Greenpeace currently has 27 offices, of which 5 regional one, and presence in 39 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific.
GroundWork -
GroundWork is a non-profit, non-governmental, environmental justice organisation working in Southern Africa. GroundWork is primarily focussed on "brown" environmental issues, namely the degrading and hazardous affects of toxics, pollution and waste on the environment and human health.
Health Care Without Harm -
We are a global coalition of 443 organizations in 52 countries working to protect health by reducing pollution in the health care industry.
Indigenous Environmental Network -
"A network of Indigenous Peoples empowering Indigenous Nations and communities towards sustainable livelihoods, demanding environmental justice and maintaining the Sacred Fire of our traditions."
International Society of Doctors for the Environment (ISDE) -
ISDE is an environment and health NGO of medical doctors with 40 member organisations around the world.
Irish Doctors Environmental Association (IDEA) -
Association of environmentally aware health professionals who wish to actively try to change the direction which human society is taking so as to minimise environmental toxins and potential toxins, including chemical, radiation [ionizing and non-ionizing] and genetic modification, but not excluding lifestyle, diet, poverty etc. We try to do this by providing speakers for public meetings, writing articles and letters for the medical and lay press, and attempting to educate ourselves and health professionals generally about environmental hazards. We are also involved in attempting to initiate research into environmental health hazards.
ISTAS - Comisiones Obreras -
ISTAS is a technical institute that supports the trade union Comisiones Obreras in environmental and occupational health issues. In the environmental area we cover activities such as: substitution of toxic substances at the workplace, environmental management in enterprises, energy (climate change, renewable sources,...), food safety and biotechnologies, water resources and pollution, alternative waste management, among others.
Montana Environmental Information Center -
The Montana Environmental Information Center is a member-supported statewide advocacy and public education organization. It was founded by concerned Montanans in 1973 to protect and restore Montana's natural environment. MEIC's issue priorities include:
Mouvement pour les Droits et le Respect des Generations Futures -
National Toxics Network -
NTN is a community based network working for pollution reduction, protection of environmental health and environmental justice for all. NTN was first formed in 1993 and since then has grown as a national network to support community and environmental organisations across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. NTN provides non-government organisations (NGOs) with a national and international voice on chemical and toxics issues and functions as Australia’s "toxic watch dog."
Natur og Ungdom (Nature and Youth) -
a member of Friends of the Earth and A Seed Europe - Nature and Youth is the only environmentalist youth organisation in Norway. Our 70 local groups work on environmental issues all over the country. Nature and Youth seeks to be at the leading edge of the issues, speaking out on what needs to be done. We put environmental problems on the agenda, put pressure on politicians and bureaucrats, and point out environment-friendly solutions.
Oregon Environmental Council (OEC) -
Founded in 1968, the Oregon Environmental Council (OEC) was the first statewide environmental group to be based in Oregon.
People's Association on Countermeasures of Dioxin and Endocrine Disruptors -
People's Association on Countermeasures of Dioxin and Endocrine Disruptors is an NGO established on September 19, 1998. Today the existence of all the organisms on the earth is being put in the crisis by the chemical contamination caused by dioxins and endocrine disruptors. 158 female lawyers, with a strong sense of crisis, were urged to do something to solve the problem, and to bring back our future to the children. Therefore, they appealed, under joint signature, for the formation of a national organization.
Pesticide Action Network - International -
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) is a network of over 600 participating nongovernmental organizations, institutions and individuals in over 90 countries working to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound alternatives. Its projects and campaigns are coordinated by five autonomous Regional Centers.
Pesticide Action Network - North America (PANNA) -
PANNA (Pesticide Action Network North America) works to replace pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. As one of five PAN Regional Centers worldwide, we link local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups into an international citizens' action network. This network challenges the global proliferation of pesticides, defends basic rights to health and environmental quality, and works to insure the transition to a just and viable society.
Pesticide Action Network UK -
Director of PAN UK. Active on Rotterdam Convention on PIC, International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides, IFCS, African Stockpiles Programme and other relevant activities.
Pesticide Action Network Africa -
PAN Africa is an information and action network and a member of Pesticide Action Network International, a global coalition of voluntary groups, non-governmental organisations, civil societies, research institutes, academics and citizens working towards the adoption of sound ecological practices to replace the use of hazardous chemical pesticides.
Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific PANAP -
In its 14 years of existence as an independent organisation, PAN AP has situated itself in the grassroots movements of Asia and as such has gained strength from these linkages.
Pesticide Action Network Europe, PAN Europe -
To promote sustainable alternatives, PAN Europe co-ordinates and strengthens activities of European NGOs addressing pesticide problems.
Pesticide Action Network, Latin America -
Alianza por una Mejor Calidad de Vida/Red de Acción en Plaguicidas ... PAN's Regional Center for Latin America is coordinated by the Alliance for a Better Quality of Life/Pesticide Action Network.
Physicians for Social Responsibility -
Founded in 1961, Physicians for Social Responsibility made its mark immediately by documenting the presence of strontium-90 - a highly radioactive waste product of atmospheric nuclear testing - in children's teeth across the country...In the early 1990s, PSR broadened the public health mission by applying its expertise to environmental threats to public health. Whether it is climate change, smog, pollutants or toxics.
Reach for Unbleached -
This site contains the results of over a decade of research into the operations of the pulp and paper industry and its mill processes.
Red de Acción en Plaguicidas y sus Alternativas de América Latina (RAP-AL) -
Sierra Club -
Sierra Club's Toxics website provides information on a variety of toxics-related subjects.
Sierra Club of Canada -
Sierra Club of Canada has been active in Canada since 1963. The national office of Sierra Club of Canada (SCC) was established in Ottawa in 1989. We have active chapters in every region of Canada, with offices in Ottawa, Victoria, Sydney, Corner Brook, Halifax, Edmonton, Montreal and Toronto.
Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) -
The Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) is an independent, public interest think tank that provides advice to public, private and voluntary organizations and undertakes policy-oriented research and advocacy.The Institute was established in August 1992, following a two-year design process, upon the recommendation of the National Conservation Strategy (NCS).
Toxics Link -
Our Mission... We are a group of people working together for environmental justice and freedom from toxics. We have taken it upon ourselves to collect and share information about the sources and dangers of poisons in our environment and bodies, as well as about clean and sustainable alternatives for India and the rest of the world.
U.S. Public Interest Research Groups -
The state Public Interest Research Groups are a network of independent, state-based, citizen-funded organizations that advocate for the public interest.
Massachusetts Public Interest Research Groups MASSPRIG-
More than one third of the U.S. population suffers from chronic diseases including cancers, asthma, learning and developmental disabilities, birth defects, diabetes, ALS and Parkinson’s disease. Scientific evidence increasingly uncovers links between toxic chemicals and higher rates of these diseases and disorders. Children are especially vulnerable. Cases of asthma, cancer and learning disabilities are on the rise, especially in Massachusetts.
Washington Toxics Coalition -
Washington Toxics Coalition protects public health and the environment by eliminating toxic pollution. WTC promotes alternatives, advocates policies, empowers communities, and educates people to create a healthy environment.
Women in Europe for a Common Future -
Women in Europe for a Common Future is an international network which brings together women's initiatives from different parts of Europe and the NIS in joint projects on sustainable development, poverty alleviation, environment, health, social justice and participatory democracy. WECF aims to stimulate participation of women in policy making at local, national and international level, and to support co-operation between women in citizens organisations from Eastern and Western Europe and the CIS. WECF emphasises the role of women in sustainable development and the importance of a gender approach.
World Information Transfer -
World Information Transfer (WIT), General Consultative Status with the United Nations promotes understanding between human health and environmental degradation, through publications, conferences, CDRom's and seminars. WIT is international with regional offices in Africa, Europe, Latin America and Middle East.
Worldwatch Institute -
The Worldwatch Institute offers a unique blend of interdisciplinary research, global focus, and accessible writing that has made it a leading source of information on the interactions among key environmental, social, and economic trends. Our work revolves around the transition to an environmentally sustainable and socially just society—and how to achieve it.
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