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Global Change and Climate Change Links: Canada and USA

» Canada

Government

  • The Government of Canada Climate Change Site
  • Environment Canada (Green Lane)
  • Canadian International Development Agency
    • CIDA's Climate Change Web Site
      The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which administers Canada's Official Development Assistance program, works to combat climate change and to fulfil Canada's commitments under Article 4 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by working with developing country parties. CIDA supports technology transfer and capacity building in developing countries to promote environmentally sound development that improves the livelihoods of the poor and encourages economic and social growth while increasing partner countries' ability to adapt to the effects and mitigate the causes of climate change.
  • National Climate Change Process Web Site (NCCP)
    This site has been created to inform Canadians about how Canadian governments are responding to the challenge of climate change. For the past several years, Canada's federal, provincial and territorial governments have been working together with a wide range of stakeholders and experts, as part of the National Climate Change Process. The goal is to understand how Canada can best respond to climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to current and future impacts.
  • Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada is responsible for policies and programs in support of Canada's economic, ecological and scientific interests in oceans and inland waters; for the conservation and sustainable utilization of Canada's fisheries resources in marine and inland waters; for leading and facilitating federal policies and program on oceans; and for safe effective and environmentally sound marine services responsive to the needs of Canadians in a global economy.
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Industry

  • Natural resources Canada (NRCan)
    As the predominant natural resource department of the federal government, NRCan has a mandate to promote the sustainable development and responsible use of Canada's mineral, energy and forestry resources, and to develop an understanding of Canada's landmass.
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Research

  • The green lane: Science of Climate Change
    We provide expert advice to assist you in Understanding Climate Change Science. This advice includes: Summaries of the key principles of the science of climate change, including information on greenhouse gases, climate trends, climate change projections and impacts of climate change; Reports on recent developments in Canadian and international climate science research; Special assessment reports and newsletters; Information on where to go to contact experts or access other useful websites
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
    NSERC is the national instrument for making strategic investments in Canada's capability in science and technology. NSERC supports both basic university research through research grants and project research through partnerships of universities with industry, as well as the advanced training of highly qualified people in both areas
  • National Research Council (NRC)
  • Sustainable Development Research Institute, University of British Colombia, Canada
    SDRI fosters research on sustainable development issues that is policy-relevant, interdisciplinary and involves non-academic partners. In its research, the Institute recognizes the linkages between environment and development issues, the increasing importance of environmental issues in the decisions of governments and industry, and the need to connect environmental imperatives directly to economic and social priorities.
    • Envision Sustainability Tools Inc.
      Envision™ Sustainability Tools is a consulting company that emerged from the Sustainable Development Research Institute at the University of British Columbia. The company was originally formed to handle the demand for the application of the QUEST™ approach to sustainability modelling. However, Envision™ has recently expanded to research and develop other environmental and sustainability software projects. The company was founded in 1997
  • C2 GCR - Centre for Climate and Global Change Research
  • Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI)
  • National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE)
    The NRTEE is an independent agency of the federal government committed to providing decision makers and opinion leaders with reliable information and objective views on the current state of the debate on the environment and the economy. The NRTEE was legislated by an Act of Parliament in 1994 to serve as a catalyst in identifying, explaining and promoting the principles and practices of sustainable development. Working with stakeholders across Canada, the NRTEE carries out its mandate by identifying key issues with both environmental and economic implications, fully exploring these implications, and suggesting action designed to balance economic prosperity with environmental preservation.
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NGOs and other Institutes

  • Canadian Institute for Climate Studies
    The Canadian Institute for Climate Studies is a not-for-profit Canadian Corporation created to further the understanding of the climate system, its variability and potential for change and the application of that understanding to decision making in both the public and private sectors.
  • Climate Change Central (C3)
    Climate Change Central is a unique public-private partnership that promotes the development of innovative responses to global climate change and its impacts. Climate Change Central builds links and relationships between businesses, governments and other stakeholders in Alberta, interested in pursuing greenhouse gas reductions initiatives.
  • Global Change Strategies International (GCSI)
    GCSI is unique in offering a suite of services directed specifically at all aspects of global environmental change. These services are backed by a team of Associates with over 80 years of direct, executive level experience on the critical issues which include climate science and policy, mitigation and adaptation strategies, environmental technology, crisis and risk management, and public consultation and outreach.
  • GreenhouseGasMeasurement.com
    We are a consulting company that provides greenhouse gas project measurement, validation, verification and reporting. Our expertise includes GHG estimation and modeling, environmental management and auditing -- all based on real-world experience in a cross-section of industries and technology areas.
  • Pembina Institute
    The Pembina Institute is an independent, not-for-profit environmental policy research and education organization.
    • Climate Change
      The Pembina Institute monitors and reports on the federal government's progress in implementing the full range of policies and measures needed to meet Canada's emission reduction target under the Kyoto Protocol.
  • David Suzuki Foundation
    • Climate change
      The David Suzuki Foundation invites you to use this resources to become informed and involved in moving Canada towards a more efficient, renewable and clean energy future.
  • CleanAir Canada
    CleanAir Canada Inc. is an independent, not-for-profit organization committed to excellence in the development, operation and expanded use of local and global emission reduction market mechanisms in Canada.
  • Inter American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)
    Sixteen countries of the Americas have signed the Agreement Establishing the Inter American Institute for Global Change Research. The IAI will focus its efforts on increasing our understanding of global change related phenomena and the societal implications of such phenomena while augmenting the overall scientific capacity of the region.
  • International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
    IISD's mission is to promote sustainable development in decision making internationally and within Canada. We contribute new knowledge and concepts, analyze policies, identify and disseminate information about best practices, demonstrate how to measure progress, and build partnerships to amplify these messages. Our audiences and clients are businesses, governments, communities and concerned individuals. Through Internet communications, working groups and project activities we create networks designed to move sustainable development from concept to practice. Action must address the differing views and needs of both developing and industrialized nations. IISD bridges these concerns in its seven program areas and through membership on its international board.
    • Linkages A Multimedia Resource for Environment & Development Policy Makers
  • International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
    The International Development Research Centre is a public corporation created by the Canadian government to help communities in the developing world find solutions to social, economic, and environmental problems through research
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Projects and Programs

  • Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Program
    The Government of Canada's Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Program provides funding for research and activities to improve our knowledge of Canada’s vulnerability to climate change, to better assess the risks and benefits posed by climate change and to build the foundation upon which appropriate decisions on adaptation can be made.
  • Canadian Global Change Program

» USA

US-Administration

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Research Centers

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  • Woods Hole Research Center
  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
    CRREL is a US Army Corps of Engineers Laboratory. We are partners in the Cold Regions Center of Expertise. Along with the other USACE Laboratories we are a national resource of the United States of America.
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • Environmental Energy Technologies Division
      The mission of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division is to perform research and development leading to better energy technologies and reduction of adverse energy-related environmental impacts
  • LLNL:
    • Energy & Environment Directorate (E&E)
      The Energy & Environment Directorate (E&E) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is an organization that combines the strengths and capabilities of the former Energy Programs and Earth and Environmental Sciences Directorates. The organization addresses enduring national needs in the areas of energy and the environment and provides discipline support in earth and atmospheric sciences to other major Laboratory programs.
      • Atmospheric Science Division
        Atmospheric scientists at LLNL are working to improve the scientific understanding of the mechanisms of global environmental and climatic change through the development and diagnosis of state-of-the-art models that represent key processes affecting the atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere. We pursue this mission for the purpose of improving national energy and security policies that impact climate and environmental change.
      • Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI)
        PCMDI's mission is to develop improved methods and tools for the diagnosis,validation, and inter-comparison of global climate models, and to conduct research on a variety of problems in climate modeling and analysis.
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  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):
    • Destination Earth
      To understand and protect our home planet...
    • Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
      This is a NASA research institute located near Columbia University in New York City, and is primarily engaged in studies of global climate change. The site contains information about the various research programs, especially Earth observations, global climate modeling, climate impacts, and planetary atmospheres as well as links to datasets, images and software pertinent to their research mission.
    • Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC)
      The GHCC is an innovative collaborative enterprise between NASA, the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the Universities Space Research Association. The GHCC activities support the Mission to Planet Earth and in particular the development and use of space-based measurements to study and understand the role of water and water vapor in the climate and climate variability questions.
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  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR):
    The National Center for Atmospheric Research focuses on important atmospheric research problems that require major commitments of resources and a wide range of scientific talent over extended periods of time. By housing scientific programs and providing a wide variety of research facilities, facilities support, and related services, NCAR serves the specialized needs of the university research community. NCAR, located in Boulder, Colorado, is managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation.
    • Climate & Global Dynamics division (CGD)
      NCAR's Climate & Global Dynamics division. is broken into a number of sections, and each section may be working on a number of projects. This page consists mainly of links to individual sections and projects.
      • Climate System Model (CSM)
        The Climate System Model (CSM) is a fully-coupled, global climate model that provides state-of-the-art computer simulations of the Earth's past, present, and future climate states.
    • Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG)
      ESIG is a multidisciplinary research group focusing on the impacts of society on the environment and of the environment on society. Our objective is to provide insights into how societies might better understand and cope with the interactions between human activities and changes in environmental, particularly atmospheric, processes. Our strategy includes both research and dissemination of our findings to the widest possible range of national and international audience.
    • Scientific Computing Division (SCD)
      The Scientific Computing Division provides supercomputing resources and related services to support research in the atmospheric, oceanic, and related sciences. SCD's mission is to provide Supercomputing resources needed for the development and execution of large, long-running numerical simulations and the archiving, manipulation, and analysis of large datasets.
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  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA):
    NOAA is an agency of the Department of Commerce that was formed in 1970. NOAA's mission includes two equally important components: Promoting global environmental stewardship in order to conserve and wisely manage the Nation`s marine and coastal resources, and describing, monitoring, and predicting changes in the Earth's environment in order to ensure and enhance sustainable economic opportunities.
    • NOAA Office of Global Programs
    • Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)
    • Office of Research and Applications
      The Office of Research and Applications (ORA) provides meteorological and oceanographic satellite products and services to agencies and people world-wide.
    • Environmental Research Laboratories (ERL)
      • AL - Aeronomy Laboratory
        The Aeronomy Laboratory conducts fundamental research on the chemical and physical processes of the Earth's atmosphere. The environmental issues are: Stratospheric ozone depletion, Tropospheric ozone production in rural areas, Global tropospheric ozone production, Greenhouse warming, Effects of aircraft on the atmosphere, The El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
      • AOML - Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
        At AOML, in Miami FL, scientists are studying hurricanes ocean current and temperature structures, ocean/atmosphere chemical exchanges and the coastal ocean.
      • ARL - Air Resources Laboratory
        The specific goal of ARL in Silver Spring MD, is to improve and institutionalize forecasting of air quality, deposition, and related atmospheric environmental variables. This is in support of concerns related to effects on human health, ecosystem viability, sustainable development, and international competitiveness.
      • CDC - Climate Diagnostics Center
        The mission of CDC, in Boulder CO, is to identify the nature and causes for climate variations and to predict important climate variations on different time scales. Short-term climate variations of interest include major droughts and floods over the continental U.S., and the global anomalies associated with El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). On longer time scales, basic research goals include identifying the causes for decadal to centennial climate variations, and separating natural variability from anthropogenically induced climate changes in order to provide an improved scientific basis for public planning and policy decisions.
      • CMDL - Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory
        The CMDL in Boulder, Colorado, conducts research related to atmospheric constituents that are capable of forcing change in the climate of the earth through modification of the atmospheric radiative environment. Research Areas at CMDL are Aerosols and Radiation, the Carbon Cycle, Nitrous Oxide And Halocompounds, Ozone and Water Vapor.
      • GFDL - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
        Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory are located in Princeton, NJ. The goal of GFDL's research is to understand and predict the earth's climate and weather, including the impact of human activities. GFDL conducts leading-edge research on many topics of great practical value, including weather and hurricane forecasts, El Niño prediction, stratospheric ozone depletion, and global warming.
      • GLERL - Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
        GLERL's mission is to conduct integrated, interdisciplinary environmental research in support of resource management and environmental services in coastal and estuarine water, with special emphasis on the Great Lakes.
      • PMEL - Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
        The Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) carries out interdisciplinary scientific investigations in oceanography, marine meteorology, and related subjects. PMEL programs focus on coastal and open ocean observations and modeling to improve our understanding of the physical and geochemical processes operating in the world oceans, to define the forcing functions and the processes driving ocean circulation and the global climate system, and to improve environmental forecasting capabilities and other supporting services for marine commerce and fisheries. Results from PMEL research activities contribute to NOAA's strategic goals of (1) implementing seasonal-to-interannual climate forecasts, (2) assessing and predicting decadal-to-centennial climate change, (3) advancing short-term warning and forecast services, and (4) building sustainable fisheries.
    • Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
      The Climate Prediction Center provides climate services consisting of operational prediction of climate variability, monitoring of the climate system and development of databases for determining current climate anomalies and trends, and analysis and assessment of their origins and linkages to the rest of the climate system. CPC supports and stimulates the application of climate information and services with particular attention to applications in agriculture, energy, transportation, water resources, and health.
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  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
    • Life Sciences and Environmental Technologies Directorate
      The Environmental Sciences Division (ESD) of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is an interdisciplinary research and development organization with more than 30 years of achievement in local, national, and international environmental research. Scientists in ESD conduct research, develop technology, and perform analyses to understand and assess responses to global and regional change, environmental stress, and resource use.
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Scientific Organizations

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Universities

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  • University of Alaska Fairbanks
    • Global Change and Arctic System Research
      The Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research was established in March 1990 to serve as the focal point at the for developing, coordinating and implementing interdisciplinary research and education related to the role of the Arctic and sub-Arctic in the Earth system, and to stimulate and facilitate global change research in this region.
  • University of Arizona
    • The Institute for the Study of Planet Earth (ISPE)
      The Institute for the Study of Planet Earth (ISPE) was established at the University of Arizona in 1994 to foster an interdisciplinary approach to education and research on global change issues, and to encourage communication about global environmental trends. ISPE participates in a growing international research effort focused on understanding how the environment changes and how human activities interact with physical and biological systems as both agents and recipients of change. As an interdisciplinary institute, ISPE's role is to coordinate people and facilities from disciplines ranging from climatology to political science, in order to address society's most pressing concerns regarding the rates and patterns of environmental change.
  • Boston University
  • University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
    • Department of Atmospheric Sciences
      The UCLA Department of Atmospheric Sciences has been at the forefront of atmospheric and oceanic research and education since its inception in 1940. A broad curriculum is offered in Dynamic and Synoptic Meteorology, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Climate Dynamics, Oceanography, and Upper Atmosphere and Space Physics.
    • Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at UCLA
      The Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCLA is the founding branch of a Multi-campus Research Unit now established on two other campuses (UCR and UCSD) and at two of the national laboratories administered by the University of California (LANL and LLNL). A sixth branch is in formative stages at UCI. The Institute has pioneered, starting with its foundation in 1946, the application of physics and chemistry to the Earth Sciences. One of the tasks of the institute are Global Change studies, the application of the science of this turn of the century to the burning socio-economic problem of limits to growth
    • Theoretical Climate Dynamics (TCD) group
      The Theoretical Climate Dynamics group, led by Prof. Michael Ghil of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (Center for Earth Systems Research) at UCLA, studies climate dynamics on all time scales using the methods of dynamical systems theory. These methods are applied to observations, numerical models, and experiments concerning the climate system through collaboration with researchers in North America and on other continents.
  • University of California San Diego (UCSD)
    • The University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
      • UC Revelle Program on Climate Science and Policy
        This program's purpose is to strengthen the dialogue between those engaged in advancing our understanding of the Earth's climate system, the decision-makers in government, and the private sector in applying climate science to address societal needs. The Program will not take policy positions or make policy recommendations. Rather, it will endeavor to identify important scientific research relevant to policy issues and make this science readily available, in an understandable form, to non-scientific audiences. The Program also will provide opportunities for UC social science and law faculty to address options for environmental treaty implementation.
    • Scripps Institution of Oceanography:
      • SIO Climate Research Division (CRD)
        Research themes include predicting the natural variability of climate and understanding the consequences of man-made increases in the greenhouse effect. Current research projects include the development of coupled global ocean and atmosphere models, assessing the role of cloud - radiation feedbacks in climate change, and modeling and predicting seasonal climate variability. CRD scientists and their collaborators have developed advanced coupled ocean - atmosphere models for ENSO prediction. This research is critical to global change objectives, because there are strong indications that climate changes such as greenhouse warming may have profound effects on ENSO phenomena.
  • Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (CMU)
  • Columbia University
    • Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
      The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., is a research division of Columbia University dedicated to understanding how planet Earth works. Scientific inquiry ranges from the origin and history of the planet to the processes taking place in and on it. More than 500 scientific, technical and support personnel, including 100 scientists and 100 graduate students, are involved in research that is often interdisciplinary and includes seismology, marine geology and geophysics, terrestrial geology, petrology, geochemistry, climate studies, atmospheric science, oceanography and paleontology.
  • Cornell Center for the Environment (CfE)
    • Environmental Risk Analysis Program
       The Environmental Risk Analysis Program (ERAP) began in Summer 1998 as an integrated applied research and outreach initiative of the Cornell University Center for the Environment.
    • Program in Biogeochemistry & Environmental Change
      The Program in Biogeochemistry & Environmental Change integrates the activities of faculty, staff and students in many departments and sections: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Natural Resources; Microbiology; Geological Sciences; Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; Crop and Soil Sciences; Agricultural & Biological Engineering; Civil & Environmental Engineering; Horticulture; Nutritional Science.
  • University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham NC
  • Georgia State University
    • Center for Risk Management and Insurance Research
      Established in 1969, the Center for RMI Research the Center studies and disseminates information trends and issues in the broadly defined areas of insurance and risk management. Recent studies include insurer insolvencies, catastrophe risk management, insurance deregulation, international trade in insurance, derivatives, and studies of the health insurance market nationally and in Georgia.
  • University of Georgia
    • Ethics and the Environment
      an interdisciplinary forum for theoretical and practical articles, discussions, reviews, comments, and book reviews in the broad area encompassed by environmental ethics. Supported by the Center for Humanities and Arts, the Philosophy Department, and the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program at the University of Georgia
  • Harvard University
    • Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University
    • Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID)
      The Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), created in 1974, is Harvard University's multidisciplinary center for coordinating development assistance, training, and research on Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America. HIID grew out of the work of Harvard's Development Advisory Service (1962-1974), and earlier projects involving Harvard advisors in international development. Throughout more than three decades of experience, the Institute has developed into a center that is focused largely on policy advising and field work in developing countries. In its long history of work in all parts of the developing world, HIID has earned a reputation as the premier academic center for policy advising across a broad spectrum of substantive areas.
    • Global Environmental Assessment Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • Center for International Development at Harvard University (CID)
      The Center for International Development at Harvard University (CID) was established on July 1, 1998 by the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) to serve as Harvard's primary center for research on sustainable international development.
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Iowa State University
  • University of Michigan
    • University of Michigan's Global Change Curriculum
      The University of Michigan's Global Change Curriculum offers an innovative approach in undergraduate science and social science education as part of the Program in the Environment. In three interdisciplinary, team-taught courses the topic of Global Change from physical and human perspectives are examined, and case studies are used to explore conditions for sustainability.
  • University of Miami
  • Penn State
    • Earth System Science Center (ESSC)
      Penn State's Earth System Science Center brings together the Departments of Geosciences, Meteorology, Geography, and Energy, Environmental, and Mineral Economics to search for links between the Earth's physical processes and past and future global change. The Center coordinates and conducts extensive research related to the global water cycle, the biogeochemical cycles, Earth System history, and human impacts on the Earth system.
    • Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change
      A collaborative program that seeks greater visibility and understanding of the ethical dimensions of climate change. The Program on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change was launched at the 10th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that was held in early December of 2004 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
    • Center for Integrated Regional Assessment
      The Center for Integrated Regional Assessment (CIRA) at The Pennsylvania State University was founded in 1996 to facilitate interdisciplinary research and education in the Human Dimensions of Global Change at the regional level of study. The center is an inter-college and inter-university community that operates under the auspices of the Earth System Science Center (ESSC).
  • Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
  • Stanford University
    • Energy Modeling Forum (EMF)
      The EMF (Energy Modeling Forum) was established in 1976 to provide a structured forum within which energy experts from government, industry, universities, and other research organizations could meet to study important energy and environmental issues of common interest. The Forum seeks to: (1) harness the collective capabilities of participating experts for improving our understanding of an important energy/environment problem, (2) explain the strengths and limitations of competing analytical approaches, and (3) identify high priority directions for future research.
    • Earth Systems (ESYS)
    • The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP)
      GCEP is an unprecedented, long-term effort led by Stanford University. Its purpose is to unite scientific researchers and private industry from around the world in the search for commercially viable technologies that foster the development of a global energy system where greenhouse emissions are much lower than today.
  • University of Washington: School of Marine Affairs
  • University of Wisconsin
    • Institute for Environmental Studies (IES)
      The Institute for Environmental Studies encourages and enables researchers from all corners of the university to collaborate on common concerns, often in partnership with government agencies, businesses, or private, nonprofit organizations. Among current and recent topics of IES research: climate change and its potential impacts, local and regional water management, ways to increase and improve recycling, restoration of disturbed ecosystems, new technologies for environmental monitoring and management, ecological sustainability and economic development

NGOs and other Institutes

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  • Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
  • The National Environmental Trust (NET)
    The National Environmental Trust is a non-profit, non-partisan membership group established in 1994 to inform citizens about environmental problems and how they affect our health and quality of life.
  • Climate Trust
    The Climate Trust is a non-profit start-up originally formed in 1997 as Oregon Climate Trust. Our mission is to promote climate change solutions by providing high quality greenhouse gas offset projects and advancing sound offset policy.
  • The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
    The ACEEE is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing energy efficiency as a means of promoting both economic prosperity and environmental protection.
  • American Bar Association: Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources
    the forum for environment, energy, and resource lawyers
  • Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative
    The Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative is an effort by 28 U.S. environmental justice, climate justice, religious, policy, and advocacy groups to call for action from the Bush Administration and Congress on climate change. The EJCC Initiative supports energy efficiency, renewable energy, and conservation policies while seeking equitable measures to protect and assist the communities most affected by climate change.
  • Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG)
    the state PIRGs are leading environmental and consumer watchdog organizations serving to preserve the environment, protect consumers and promote democracy
  • CIESIN
    The Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN, pronounced "season") was established in 1989 as a private, nonprofit corporation with members from leading universities and non-government research organizations. The corporation was formed in response to a directive by the United States Congress and is dedicated to furthering the interdisciplinary study of global environmental change. CIESIN is agency-neutral, specializing in the access and integration of physical, natural, and socioeconomic information across scientific disciplines
  • Resources for the Future (RFF)
    Resources for the Future (RFF) is an independent, nonprofit research organization that aims to help people make better decisions about the conservation and use of their natural resources and the environment. As the world's knowledge of the environment grows and competition for natural and financial resources becomes more intense, the need for policies based on information rather than inclination becomes increasingly crucial. RFF strives to provide accurate, objective information to policy makers, legislators, public opinion leaders, and environmentalists to help them responsibly meet the nation's and the world's long-term environmental and economic needs.
  • Sustainable Energy Coalition
    The Sustainable Energy Coalition brings together more than 30 national business, environmental, consumer, and energy policy organizations. Founded in 1992, the Coalition promotes increased federal support for energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies and reduced federal support for unsafe or polluting energy resources.
  • Atmospheric & Environmental Research, Inc. (AER)
    Since 1977, AER has served as a leading environmental research and consulting resource for a diversified range of clients in government and industry. AER was founded to advance the knowledge of the global environment with the goal of supporting efforts directed toward a sustainable Earth.
  • Pacific Institute
    The Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security is an independent, non-profit center created in 1987 to do research and policy analysis in the areas of environment, sustainable development, and international security.
  • Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI)
  • Bermuda Biological Station for Research
  • Committee for the National Institute for the Environment(CNIE)
  • Institute for Global Environment and Society, Inc.
    dedicated to basic research in climate variability, climate predictability and climate change
  • The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
    The Center is a non-profit research institution dedicated to improving the scientific and economic foundation for environmental policy. It's distinctive role is to foster collaboration between industry, environmental organizations, government and academia.
  • Pew Center on Global Climate Change
    The Pew Center on Global Climate Change brings a new cooperative and critical scientific, economic and technological expertise to the global debate on climate change. The Center's work on climate change has four major programmatic thrusts: business involvement, education, scientific studies and analysis and global outreach.
  • World Resources Institute (WRI)
    In all of its policy research and work with institutions, WRI tries to build bridges between ideas and action, meshing the insights of scientific research, economic and institutional analyses, and practical experience with the need for open and participatory decision-making. WRI's current areas of work include economics, forests, biodiversity, climate change, energy, sustainable agriculture, resource and environmental information, trade, technology, national strategies for environmental and resource management, business liaison, and human health.
  • Tellus Institute
    Tellus Institute is a non-profit research and consulting organization that promotes rational, equitable and sustainable resource management. The Institute conducts studies on environment, resource, and development issues at the global, national, state, local and enterprise levels. The Institute develops and applies analytical methods, works to strengthen human and institutional capacity, and provides support to government, multi-lateral, and non-governmental institutions and businesses.
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
    A unique private oceanographic center, the non-profit Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), was established in 1987 by David Packard (1912-1996) with the goal of developing state-of-the-art equipment, instrumentation, systems, and methods of scientific research in the deep waters of the ocean.
  • American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)
    Since 1974 the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) has advocated the development of wind energy as a reliable, environmentally superior energy alternative in the United States and around the world.

Programmes and Projects

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