FZK-Logo ITAS - Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis

Global Change and Climate Change Links: Europe

» Europe

European Union

  • Gateway to the European Union
  • Publications Office
    The Office for Official Publications of the European Communities (Publications Office) is the publishing house of the European Union (EU).
  • European Union Documents
    This page gives you access to the document registers of the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission.
  • EU Bookshop
    EU Bookshop is an online service giving access to publications from the EU institutions, agencies and other bodies. In addition to the online bookshop, this service will offer an online catalogue and archive of all EU publications. EU Bookshop will allow users to search for EU publications, order them and where possible, download copies. The online EU Bookshop catalogue contains publications issued in the past three years. Earlier publications can be found in the archive.
  • EUR-Lex, Central access point to EU law
    EUR-Lex provides direct free access to European Union law. The system makes it possible to consult the Official Journal of the European Union and it includes inter alia the treaties, legislation, case-law and legislative proposals.
  • ScadPlus: Summaries of Legislation
  • CORDIS, Community Research and Development Information Service
    CORDIS is the official website through which researchers can obtain funding under the main EU research funding programme. The site contains all the information they need on EU tenders, the process by which researchers propose projects for funding. It also offers interactive online services, bringing together researchers, decision-makers and other key players in research.
  • EU Whoiswho, the official directory of the European Union
  • European Commission
    • Climate Action
      Energy for a Changing World
    • Environment
      • Publications
      • The Sixth Environment Action Programme
        The 6th EAP promotes full integration of environmental protection requirements into all Community policies and actions and provides the environmental component of the Community's strategy for sustainable development. The link is made between environment and European objectives for growth, competitiveness and employment.
      • Climate change
      • Sustainable Development
      • Environmental Assessment
        In principle, environmental assessment can be undertaken for individual projects such as a dam, motorway, airport or factory ('Environmental Impact Assessment') or for plans, programmes and policies ('Strategic Environmental Assessment'). This website provides information on the European Community's laws on Environmental Impact Assessment of projects and the Environmental Assessment of certain plans and programmes together with other related information.
    • Research
    • Energy
      • Renewable Energy
        Renewable sources of energy – wind power, solar power (thermal, photovoltaic and concentrated), hydro-electric power, tidal power, geothermal energy and biomass – are essential alternatives to fossil fuels. Their use reduces our greenhouse gas emissions, diversifies our energy supply and reduces our dependence on unreliable and volatile fossil fuel markets (in particular oil and gas). The growth of renewable energy sources also stimulates employment in Europe, the creation of new technologies and improves our trade balance.
      • Energy efficiency
        Reducing energy consumption and eliminating energy wastage are among the main goals of the European Union (EU). EU support for improving energy efficiency will prove decisive for competitiveness, security of supply and for meeting the commitments on climate change made under the Kyoto Protocol. There is significant potential for reducing consumption, especially in energy-intensive sectors such as buildings, manufacturing, energy conversion and transport.
      • Sustainable Energy Europe
        A European Campaign to raise awareness and change the landscape of energy Sustainable Energy Europe is a European Commission initiative in the framework of the Intelligent Energy - Europe Programme, which will contribute to achieve the European Union's energy policy targets within the fields of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, clean transport and alternative fuels.
    • Transport
      • Sustainable transport policies
        With growing freight and passenger transport, pollution and congestion risk aggravating.The European Commission is working towards a form of mobility that is sustainable, energy-efficient and respectful of the environment. Our aim is to disconnect mobility from its adverse effects. This means, above all, promoting co-modality, i.e. optimally combining various modes of transport within the same transport chain, which is the solution for the future in the case of freight. Technical innovation and a shift towards the least polluting and most energy efficient modes of transport — especially in the case of long distance and urban travel — will also contribute to a more sustainable mobility.
    • Enterprise and Industry
      • Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Competitiveness
        The primary objective of DG Enterprise and Industry is to promote the integration of sustainable development with policies that foster the EU’s competitiveness, such as those that encourage entrepreneurship and innovation. Environmental challenges are now explicitly linked to economic development issues, and every European businesses has a part to play in promoting the concept of sustainability.
  • Joint Research Centre
    Europe faces public concern about complex issues such as food contamination, genetic modification, chemical hazards, global change, environment and health, and nuclear safety. The Joint Research Centre (JRC) supports EU policy makers in the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of policies to tackle such trans-national and global problems.
  • EUROSTAT
    Eurostat’s mission is to provide the European Union with a high-quality statistical information service.
  • European Environmental Agency (EEA)
    The EEA aims to support sustainable development and to help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe's environment through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy making agents and the public.
    • European Environment Information and Observation Network (EIONET)
      EIONET was created as the main vehicle of the European Environment Agency to collect data, information and knowledge for the process of reporting on the state of environment. EIONET is a co-operative activity between EEA and the Member Countries. EIONET is both an organisational network and telematic network.
top

UN/ECE

  • United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE):Environment and Human Settlements Division
    The Environment and Human Settlements Division is part of the Geneva-based secretariat of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe or UN/ECE. It brings together economists, scientists, urban planners and other experts. It is they who organize the regular intergovernmental meetings of the Committee on Environmental Policy, the Executive Body for the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution, the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes and the Committee on Human Settlements
    • Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (EMEP/LRTAP)
    • UNECE/EMEP activity data and emission database
      This is the fourth release of UNECE/EMEP (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe/Co-operative programme for monitoring and evaluation of long range transmission of air pollutants in Europe) emission database, open for interactive use via Internet. Emissions on Main Pollutants, Heavy Metals, Persistent Organic Pollutants and Particulate Matter are available as totals/sectors and as gridded emissions both for officially reported data and expert estimates.
top

Organizations

  • Network of European Environmental Advisory Councils (EEAC)
    More than 30 advisory councils for environmental policy and sustainable development from 13 countries in the European Union and 8 accession countries are participating in the EEAC network. The councils collaborate in this network to enrich the quality of policy advice on national and regional level by exchanging information with colleagues from other countries and to exert, where appropriate, an influence on policy developments at EU level by acting cooperatively.
  • A Global Overview of Renewable Energy Source (AGORES)
    This site is designed to be the European information centre and knowledge gateway for renewable energy, helping to promote the European Union's strategy to achieve 12% of RES by 2010.
  • European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC)
    ECNC is an independent foundation, working in the field of nature conservation uniting the expertise of its partners across Europe. ECNC's unique selling point is to link policy makers and scientists by challenging both worlds to cooperate and to combine efforts. The Centre has excellent contacts with Europe's leading bodies relevant for nature conservation. ECNC actively promotes, by bridging the gap between science and policy, the conservation of nature and especially of biodiversity in Europe, because of their intrinsic values and their relevance to the economy and European culture
  • European Environmental Bureau (EEB)
    The EEB is a federation composed of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) particularly concerned with the protection and defence of the environment. EEB's specific mission is to promote environmental policies and sustainable policies on the European Union level. Its members have joined because they are convinced of the importance of the policies of the European Union with regard to environment and nature conservation; are concerned that the directions these policies take are not leading to sustainable societies, in the environmental and social sense; believe that co-ordinated actions by EEB members and existing and potential allies can bring positive change, a change of direction in EU policies towards sustainability.
  • Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP)
    The Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) is an independent body for the analysis and advancement of environmental policies in Europe. The Institute operates as a Network with offices in London, Berlin and Madrid, with various associates in other EU Member States. IEEP undertakes research on the European dimension of environmental protection, with a major focus on the development, implementation and evaluation of the environmental policy of the European Union, international bodies and national governments.
top

Scientific Organizations and Projects

  • European Science Foundation (ESF)
    The European Science Foundation promotes high quality science at a European level. It acts as a catalyst for the development of science by bringing together leading scientists and funding agencies to debate, plan and implement pan-European initiatives.
  • European Geophysical Society
  • European Geosciences Union
    The European Geosciences Union (EGU) established by the Council of the European Geophysical Society (EGS) and the Council of the European Union of Geosciences (EUG) on 7 September 2002
  • EUMETNET
    EUMETNET is a network grouping 18 European National Meteorological Services. EUMETNET provides a framework to organise co-operative programmes between the Members in the various fields of basic meteorological activities such as observing systems, data processing, basic forecasting products, research and development, training. Through EUMETNET Programmes, the Members intend to develop their collective capability to serve environment management and climate monitoring and to bring to all European users the best available quality of meteorological information.
  • European Ozone Research Coordinating Unit
  • EUROTRAC
    The EUREKA project on the transport and chemical transformation of trace constituents in the troposphere over Europe; second phase
  • ESPACE (European Spatial Planning: Adapting to Climate Events)
    ESPACE is an ambitious four-year European project that aims to promote awareness of the importance of adapting to climate change and to recommend that it is incorporated within spatial planning mechanisms at local, regional, national and European levels. Focussing on North West Europe, ESPACE will look at how we manage our water resources and plan for a future with a changing climate.
  • The Global Governance Project (Glogov.org)
    The Global Governance Project (Glogov.org) is a joint research programme of eleven European research institutions that seeks to advance understanding of the new actors, institutions and mechanisms of global governance. While we address the phenomenon of global governance in general, most of our research projects focus on global environmental change and governance for sustainable development.
top

Data

  • CORINAIR
  • European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER)
    The first European-wide register of industrial emissions into air and water. It gives you access to information on the annual emissions of 9256 industrial facilities in the 15 Member States of the EU as well as Norway – mostly from the year 2001. It lets you group information easily, by pollutant, activity (sector), air and water (direct or via a sewerage system) or by country. It is also possible to see detailed data on individual facilities. You can search by name or by clicking on a map. Alternatively you can look for the sources of a particular pollutant.
  • European Environmental Law Homepage
    Here you can find full text cases, legislation and other materials related to European Environmental Law. Apart from these primary sources, several dossiers and articles offer a more in depth view on specific issues.

» Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg

top

Belgium

top

Netherlands

  • Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment (VROM)
  • Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP)
    It is the primary task of the MNP to advise the Dutch government on a wide variety of environmental issues from a scientific base built on knowledge and expertise. Policy-makers use MNP research findings to develop, implement and enforce environmental policy. MNP underpins policy through its monitoring, modelling and risk and impact assessment results.
  • The Dutch National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection (RIVM)
    RIVM, Bilthoven, is the centre of information and know-how whose task it is to supply the government with the information required for its health and environmental policies, in support of the national public health inspection.
  • Dutch National Research Programme on Global Air Pollution and Climate Change (NRP)
    The NRP is a programme for the encouragement and financing of climate research, conducted by a variety of universities and institutes. More than 30 Dutch research institutes are working on problems that, directly or indirectly, have to do with climate change and 'global change'.
  • Netherlands HDP Committee
    The Netherlands HDP Committee is a full member of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). The main objective of the Netherlands HDP Committee is to stimulate Dutch social scientists to participate in national and international global change research and to facilitate contacts between these researchers and potential funding agencies.
  • Climate Change and Biosphere Research Programme (CCB-Wageningen)
    The CCB-Wageningen is the formalization of a long-time collaboration between the Wageningen Agricultural University (WAU) and the Agricultural Research Department (DLO) in the field of biospheric aspects of climate change. The CCB-Programme aims to strengthen the cooperation between researchers in the field of fundamental, applied and policy-oriented climate change research, serve as a focal point for policy makers, non-governmental organisations and others seeking information and advice on biospheric aspects of climate impact assessment and enhance expert-input from WAU and DLO in national and international climate research programmes (notably IGBP) and policy assessments (IPCC)
  • Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
    NWO (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) is the central Dutch organization in the field of fundamental and strategic scientific research. NWO encompasses all fields of scholarship. Look for: Aard- en Levenswetenschappen (ALW; Earth and Life Sciences)
  • Statistics Netherlands
    In 1899 Statistics Netherlands was instituted by law. Its task is to supply the Dutch government with reliable figures to base its policies on. From 1970 producing environmental statistics is an important part of its task.
  • KNMI: Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
  • TNO, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research
  • NETCOAST A Guide to Integrated Coastal Zone Management
    NetCoast is a computer program designed for the W3 and intended for everyone involved in Coastal Zone Management. It is produced by the Dutch Coastal Zone Management Centre.
  • Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM)
    IVM was founded at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in 1971. Being the oldest environmental university research institute in the Netherlands, IVM has built up considerable experience in dealing with the complexity of environmental issues. Its purpose is to contribute to the sustainability of societies and the rehabilitation and preservation of the environment through academic research. IVM carries out a large number of projects which are related to climate change. These projects are carried out by researchers with various disciplinary backgrounds, and often have a strong multidisciplinairy background.
  • International Centre for Integrative Studies (ICIS)
    ICIS is an interdisciplinary research centre at Maastricht University, and is part of the Faculty of General Sciences. The objective of ICIS is twofold: on the one hand the development of innovate tools and methods to support strategic decision-making. On the other hand to propagate integrated insights to decision makers and disciplinary scientists. Building upon a methodological and empirical basis, ICIS intends to play a pilot role in the rapidly expanding area of integrated research.
  • Sustainability and Climate Research (SCR)
    Site of the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) at the Rotterdam Erasmus University. The global impact of climate change on society and the natural environment calls for a multidisciplinary approach in the mitigation of its effects. Be it through behavioural adaptation, increasingly extreme weather conditions, or the economic impact on corporations and their strategic focus, climate change is a problem that has to be dealt with on a systemic level. Our broad objectives are to reach a clearer understanding of the challenges posed by climate change and search for credible solutions to achieving global sustainability.
  • Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group at Wageningen University
    The group provides courses and does research in the economic analysis of national and international environmental problems, such as climate change, acidification, waste management, and biodiversity.
  • Netherlands Energy Research Foundation (ECN)
    ECN is the leading institute for energy research in the Netherlands. ECN carries out basic and applied research in the fields of nuclear energy, fossil fuels, renewable energy sources, policy studies, environmental aspects of energy supply and the development and application of new materials.
  • Ecofys
    Ecofys operates on the forefront of the development and market implementation of renewable energy and energy-efficient systems. The most important activities Ecofys performs are policy evaluations, technological surveys of renewable energy, and cost-efficiency studies in the area of renewable energy, energy conservation and measures to reduce emissions.
  • DHV
    DHV is a leading international consultancy and engineering group that provides services and sustainable solutions for the following markets: Aviation, Building, Manufacturing and Telecommunications, Spatial Planning and Environment, Transportation and Infrastructure, Water. A total of 3,800 socially committed DHV professionals develop innovative concepts in the fields of consultancy and engineering. DHV offers its recognized expertise worldwide to clients in the public and private sectors through its closely-knit knowledge network. DHV provides multi-disciplinary services for the sustainable development of our living environment based on mutual loyalty with clients, employees, partners and shareholders.

» France

top

» Great Britain and Ireland

top

Great Britain

  • Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) On 3 October 2008 the Prime Minister announced the creation of a new Department of Energy and Climate Change which will be able to give an even greater focus to solving the twin challenges of climate change and energy supply. The department will bring together much of the Climate Change Group, previously housed within the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), with the Energy Group from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR).
  • UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
  • Environment Agency
    The Environmen Agency is the leading public organisation for protecting and improving the environment in England and Wales. For example, the Environment Agency regulates industry, maintains flood defences and water resources, and improves wildlife habitats, in addition to many other activities. The Environmen Agency also monitors the environment, and makes the information collected widely available.
  • UK National Air Quality Information Archive
  • Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
    • Energy Group
      The DTI's Energy Group deals with a wide range of energy related matters, from its production or generation to its eventual supply to the customer. The Group is committed to working with others to ensure competitive energy markets while achieving safe, secure and sustainable energy supplies.
  • UK Department for Transport (DfT)
  • National Statistics Online
    • United Kingdom Environmental Accounts
      UK Environmental Accounts contains commentary and data on:
      Atmospheric emissions; Energy consumption; Estimates of oil and gas reserves; Production and stock of solid radioactive waste; UK imports and exports of material resources; Government revenues from environmental taxes; UK environmental protection expenditure by industry
  • Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP)
    The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution is an independent standing body established in 1970 to advise the Queen, the Government, Parliament and the public on environmental issues.
  • Sustainable Development Commission
    The Commission's main role is to advocate sustainable development across all sectors in the UK, review progress towards it, and build consensus on the actions needed if further progress is to be achieved.
  • Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
    The mission of the NERC is to promote and support, by any means, high quality basic, strategic and applied research, survey, long-term environmental monitoring and related post-graduate training in terrestrial, marine and freshwater biology and Earth, atmospheric, hydrological, oceanographic and polar sciences and Earth observation.
    • QUEST (Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System)
      The primary objective of QUEST is to achieve a better qualitative and quantitative understanding of large-scale processes and interactions in the Earth System, especially the interactions among biological, physical and chemical processes in the atmosphere, ocean and land and their implications for human activities.
  • Environmental Change Network
    Monitoring and research to detect and interpret environmental change
  • Atmosphere, Climate & Environment Information Programme
    The Atmosphere, Climate & Environment (ACE) Information Programme is supported by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to disseminate information, without advocacy or bias, on the causes, effects of and controls on air pollution and climate change, within the framework of national legislation and international discussion.
  • UK Climate Impacts Programme
    In April 1997, the UK Government launched a programme to co-ordinate an integrated assessment of climate change impacts in the UK. Environmental Resources Management (ERM) and the Environmental Change Unit (ECU), University of Oxford were commissioned to lead the Programme. The UK Climate Impacts Programme seeks to provide a stakeholder-led assessment of climate change impacts on the UK, to which we are already committed and must adapt. The Programme will bring together those from the public and private sector with responsibilities for accommodating the effects of climate change to undertake sectoral- and regional-based impact assessments within an integrated national framework.
  • British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
    The mission of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is to undertake a programme of first class science through which an active and influential role can be sustained in the Antarctic region, giving the UK an authoritative voice in Antarctic affairs. BAS research covers all aspects of science and exploits the unique natural laboratory conditions in the Antarctic to address problems of global and regional relevance. BAS also discharges the UK's responsibilities for complying with the Antarctic Treaty and administers the British Antarctic Territory.
  • Inter-Agency Committee on Marine Science and Technology (IACMST)
    The IACMST maintains an overview of marine activities across Government. It encourages links between Government and the national marine community, the wider application of marine science and technology
  • Royal Meteorological Society
    The Royal Meteorological Society was founded as the British Meteorological Society on 3 April 1850. The Royal Meteorological Society advances and promotes the science of meteorology by means of journals and other publications, discussion meetings, conferences, professional accreditation, grants, medals, prizes, workshops for schoolteachers and other educational activities.
  • European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
    The Centre, located in Reading, UK, is an international organisation supported by 22 European States. The principal objectives of the Centre are: the development of numerical methods for medium-range weather forecasting; the preparation of medium-range weather forecasts for distribution to the meteorological services of the Member States; scientific and technical research directed to the improvement of these forecasts; collection and storage of appropriate meteorological data.
  • United Kingdom Meteorological Office
    The UK MetOffice is one of the world's leading providers of environmental and weather-related services.
    • Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
      The Hadley Centre was opened in May 1990. It is part of the Met Office.The primary objective of the Hadley Centre is to provide the United Kingdom with an up-to-date expert assessment of natural and anthropogenic changes in global and regional climate.
  • Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
    The Tyndall Centre is a national UK centre for inter-disciplinary research on climate change. It is dedicated to the identification, promotion and facilitation of sustainable responses to the challenge of climate change. The Centre was launched officially on 9 November 2000. It is the result of a unique collaboration between nine UK research institutions and three of the UK Research Councils. It draws additional support from the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry. Tyndall Centre activities have three key elements: integrated, inter-disciplinary research on climate change issues; wide engagement with national and international stakeholders education and opinion-shaping.
  • Climate Research Unit (University of East Anglia, Norwich)
    The Climatic Research Unit is one of the world's leading institutions concerned with the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change. The Unit has developed a number of the data sets widely used in climate research, including the global temperature record used to monitor the state of the climate system, as well as statistical software packages and climate models. The aim of the Climatic Research Unit is to improve scientific understanding in three areas: past climate history and its impact on humanity; the course and causes of climate change during the present century; prospects for the future
    • Tiempo
      The Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary is an electronic information service covering global warming, climate change, sea-level rise and related issues. The Cyberlibrary provides access to authoritative news, views, briefing material, publications, data, analysis tools and educational resources on the subject of climate change, with particular reference to the situation of the developing world.
    • Climate Impacts LINK Project
      The LINK Project was established in 1991 by the UK Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), formerly the Department of the Environment, to supply datasets constructed from the Hadley Centre's climate change experiments to the international climate change research community. These datasets are accompanied by supporting scientific and technical advice.
    • IPCC Data Distribution Centre
      The IPCC established the Data Distribution Centre to facilitate the rapid uptake of more recent climate change science by researchers in the impacts community, and to improve consistency in the scenarios adopted in different assessments. Enhanced compatibility between impacts studies is of great importance when evaluating and synthesising results across regions and sectors, and this is a major goal of Working Group II of the IPCC for its Third Assessment Report (TAR).
  • Centre for Atmospheric Science (Cambridge University)
    The Centre for Atmospheric Science is a joint venture between the University Departments of Chemistry and Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. The group in the Chemistry Department has a very active research program into all aspects of atmospheric chemistry. There is also research being carried out into the kinetics of reactions important for atmospheric chemistry. In the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, scientists are engaged in studying fundamental dynamical processes; for example mixing processes in atmosphere and the development of new gravity wave parametrizations for atmospheric models.
    • Atmospheric Dynamics Group
      The Atmospheric Dynamics group, part of the Centre for Atmospheric Science in Cambridge, is interested in the fluid-dynamical problems involved in understanding our chemical-climatic environment. Typical problems range from the fine-scale mixing of, for example, aircraft emissions or of pollutants in the ocean to the entire problem of the global atmospheric circulation and its chemical and radiative consequences, including questions of stratosphere-troposphere exchange.
  • Department of Environmental & Geographical Sciences (Manchester Metropolitan University)
    • aric
      aric provides research & education in atmospheric & sustainability issues to encourage responsible development.
  • Environmental Change Institute (Oxford University)
    The Environmental Change Institute (ECI) (formerly the Environmental Change Unit) is Oxford University’s centre for research and teaching on the environment and sustainability.Within the context of its interdisciplinary approach and links to other University departments, the ECI is formally a Research Unit of the School of Geography and represented through the Faculty of Anthropology and Geography.
  • The Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House in London
    The Royal Institute of International Affairs is an independent research and membership organisation working to promote the understanding of key international issues.
  • Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
    The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies was founded in 1982 as a centre for advanced research into the social science aspects of energy.
  • Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST)
    CREST is based at Loughborough University in the UK and aims to advance renewable energy technology so as to provide substantial and benign energy options for present and future generations. In particular CREST will contribute to the development and implementation of renewable energy through research and demonstration, work with research institutions, industry and related organisations to promote renewable energy, provide training and education in both theoretical and practical aspects of renewable energy systems technology
  • Panos Institute
    Panos Institute, London, is an international non-profit institute providing information on global issues with a developing country perspective.
  • Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
    ODI is Britain's leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. Our mission is to inspire and inform policy and practice which lead to the reduction of poverty, the alleviation of suffering and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods in developing countries.
top

Ireland

  • An Ghníomhaireacht um Chaomhnú Comhshaoil (Environmental Protection Agency)
    The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent body, set up under the Environmental Protection Agency Act, 1992. It was formally established on 26 July 1993 with the purpose of protecting Ireland's natural environment. Ireland is among the leaders in Europe in establishing an independent Environmental Protection Agency with wide executive functions. These include strong regulatory and enforcement powers relating to all activities with potential for major pollution, along with supervisory and support services for public bodies - including local authorities - engaged in activities which may affect the environment.
    • ENFO
      ENFO is Irelands public information service on environmental matters, including sustainable development.
  • The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability (feasta)

» Italy, Spain and Portugal

top

Italy

top

Spain

top

Portugal

  • Guia Marine Laboratory (LMG)
    The Guia Marine Laboratory (LMG) is a Research and Development Unit belonging to the Faculty of Sciences (Department of Zoology and Anthropology) of the University of Lisbon. The main research effort is concerned with Marine Ecology (Coastal and Deep-Sea Systems) and Marine Ecophysiology (Physiology of growth, nutrition and reproduction of marine species).
  • Instituto Superior Técnico
    The IST, created in 1911, is the largest and most reputed school of engineering, science and technology in Portugal.
    • Research Group on Energy and Sustainable Development
      Main Research Topics: Clean combustion; Renewable energies; Hydrogen and fuel cells; CO2 and climate change; Clean technologies and energy efficiency in industry; Energy in urban environment; Energy policies and energy planning; Integrated environmental studies; Sustainability; Kyoto Protocol; Capacity building in energy and environment in 3rd countries; Promotion of energy technologies; Clean Urban Transports; Alternative energies in transports (fuels and engines); Modulation of traffic

» Scandinavia

top

Denmark

top

Finland

top

Norway

  • Ministry of the Environment
  • Center for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo (CICERO)
    CICERO was established by the Norwegian Government in April 1990 as a non-profit organization associated with the University of Oslo. The Center's research concentrates on: International negotiations on climate agreements; Global climate and regional environment effects in developing and industrialized countries (integrated assessments); Indirect effects of emissions and feedback mechanisms in the climate system as a result of chemical processes in the atmosphere.
  • Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI)
    The Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) is an independent foundation engaged in applied social science research on international issues concerning energy, resource management and the environment. The Institute seeks to maintain an interdisciplinary approach, with main emphasis on political science, economy, and international law.
    • Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development
      This site is edited with a view to give both professionals and the concerned public in general a reliable and user-friendly guide to major instruments and players in the process towards sustainable development. It presents both systematic reference material and informed evaluations of international co-operation on environment and development.
  • Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC)
    NERSC is an independent non-profit research institute affiliated with the University of Bergen, Norway. The Nansen Center conducts basic and applied environmental research funded by national and international governmental agencies, research councils and industry.
  • Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)
  • KLIMATEK
    KLIMATEK is a 5 year Norwegian National Technology Programme to promote technology for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Norwegian Research Council launched KLIMATEK in mid 1997 and currently projects ranging from CO2-separation to direct biological fixation of CO2 have been initiated. The success of KLIMATEK relies on the total potential emission reductions in mill. tonnes CO2-equivalents, which can be achieved using KLIMATEK technology.
top

Sweden

» Central European Countries

top
  • Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC)
    The REC was established in 1990 by the United States, the European Commission, and Hungary. The REC's mission is to promote cooperation among diverse environmental groups and interests in Central and Eastern Europe; to act as a catalyst for developing solutions to environmental problems; and to promote the development of civil society. The REC assists environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), governments, businesses, and other environmental stakeholders to fulfil their role in a democratic, sustainable society.
  • Central European University (CEU)
    The Central European University (CEU) is an international institution for post-graduate study and research. Founded by Hungarian-American philanthropist George Soros in 1991, CEU also promotes educational development and policy making throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

  • Czech Ministry of Environment
  • Energy and Environment in the Czech Republic
    The project: "Energy and Environment in the Czech Republic" aims at an assessment of the present situation in the energy and environment sectors in the Czech Republic. Therefore, both the developments since the turn of 1989 and the requirements with respect to EU membership will be analysed. Furthermore, with this project, a positive contribution is to be made for a closer co-operation in the technical and administrative area between German and Czech partners

Poland

Serbia

» Russia

top
  • Russian Government
  • Moscow State University
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
    Russian Federal Service on hydrometeorology and environmental protection
  • Energy Russia
    This site is dedicated to information on all aspects of energy policy, energy efficiency, energy security, energy supply forecasting, efficiency technology, energy audit, renewable energy, emission trading, marketing of energy efficiency products and services, as well as all means to finance energy efficiency in Russia with the help of national or international banks or institutions.
  • Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems, INEP
    INEP was formed in June 27, 1989, integrated in the system of the Kola Science Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences. The aim for establishing the Institute was elaboration of scientific basement for ecological optimization of nature resources use in the North on the example of the Kola Peninsula as the most developed mining-metallurgical region of North Russia.
  • WWF Russia
  • Programme on stabilizing anthropogenic emissions
    The National Organization has developed the Programme for Stabilizing Anthropogenic Emissions and Enhancing Removal by Sinks of Greenhouse Gases at Enterprises of the Russian Federation (Programme). The Programme’s objective is to build capacity and institutional and methodological framework for effective implementation of the Russian Federation policy and measures on compliance with UNFCCC commitments and decisions of Conferences of Parties to the UNFCCC.
top