Home: Kenya

Description: UNEP is an organization which is aiming to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

Geographical focus: Worldwide

Web site language: English, French, Spanish

URL: http://www.unep.org/

Home: Switzerland

Description: IUCN's Pan-European Region covers the whole of Europe and North and Central Asia. This is IUCN's largest programmatic region and contains two global biodiversity hotspots: The Mediterranean basin and the Caucasus.

IUCN's mission in the Pan-European region:

"To foster and fortify a European network of excellence in environmental research, policy and best practice, with the aim to contribute to IUCN's global mission, support the integration of biodiversity conservation into economic development and to support innovative initiatives for the multifunctional, sustainable use of natural resources."

Geographical focus: Pan-European

Web site language: English, French, Spanish

URL: http://www.iucn.org/about/union/secretariat/offices/europe/about/

Home: France

Description: The Environment Directorate provides governments with the analytical basis to develop policies that are effective and economically efficient, including through country performance reviews, data collection, policy analysis, projections and modelling, and the development of common approaches.

Geographical focus: Worldwide

Web site language: English, French

URL: http://www.oecd.org/department/0,3355,en_2649_33713_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

Description: The Division for Sustainable Development (DSD) provides leadership and is an authoritative source of expertise within the United Nations system on sustainable development. It promotes sustainable development as the substantive secretariat to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) and through technical cooperation and capacity building at international, regional and national levels. The context for the Division's work is the implementation of Agenda 21, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation and the Barbados Programme of Action for Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States.

Geographical focus: Worldwide

Web site language: English

URL: http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/index.shtml

Home: Brussels, and country's offices

Description:

Our vision is based on the statement that Prosperity and Peace is secured for all, which depends on a rich, clean and healthy environmnet. Responsible societies respect the carrying capacity of the planet and preserve it for future generations, including its rich biodiversity. Effective environmental policies and sustainable development have priority over short-term objectives that only serve a current generation or certain sections of society.

Our values: EEB stands for sustainable development, environmental justice, global equity, transparency, participatory democracy and shared but diffirentiated responsibilities. It promotes the principles of prevention, precaution, and the polluter pays.

Our mission: The EEB is the environmental voice of its members and European citizens. It focuses on influencing EU policymaking and implementation and assessment of its agreed policies. It aims to be effective by combining knowledge with representativness, active involvment of its members and coalition building.

Geographical focus: Pan-European

Web site language: English, French

URL: http://www.eeb.org/

Home: Denmark

Description: A specialised agency of the European Union, analyzing the status and trends in the environmental, economic and social pressures in the region through scenarios analysis, evaluate policies and data quality control.

Geographical focus: European Union

Website language: English and all other EU languages

URL: http://www.eea.europa.eu

Home: Belgium

Description: Environmental Policies and Laws, Environmental Fund

Geographical focus: European Union

Website language: English, and all member’s languages

URL: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/index_en.htm

Home: Brussels (European Commission)

Description: Europe's No. 1 portal on urban transport and mobility

Geographical focus: European Union

Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian, Polish

URL: http://www.eltis.org/Vorlage.phtml?sprache=en