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ID21
Development Research is a new online reporting service that contains hundreds of
policy-relevant findings on critical global development issues, drawn from over 40 major
UK-based economics and social studies departments and think-tanks, together with a wide
range of NGO research departments and consultants. |
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Management Institute for Environment & Business:
Empowering business professionals to promote environmental progress |
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The IISD Solutions for Business site
offers information about corporate trends, market and financing opportunities in
sustainable development, drawing from real corporate experiences.
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CERES
(the Coalition of Environmentally Responsible Economies), a coalition of investors, public
pension trustees, foundations, labor unions, and environmental, religious and public
interest groups, believes that globally sustainable economic activity must be
environmentally responsible. |
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Sustainable Business.com is a focal point for the sustainable
business community on the Internet: SBN Journal, Library, Business Opportunities and Green
Dream Jobs |
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Business
for Social Responsibility (BSR)'s mission is to help its member companies achieve
long-term commercial success by implementing policies and practices that honor high
ethical standards and meet their responsibilities to all who are impacted by their
decisions. |
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European
Partners for the Environment (EPE) brings together international, European, national
and local public authorities; companies large and small; trades unions; institutes;
environmental and other NGOs. |
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The Council for Ethics in Economics is an
association of leaders in business, education, religion, and other professions working
together to strengthen the ethical fabric of business and economic life. |
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EthicScan Canada Limited is a business ethics,
research and consulting clearing-house that monitors the social and environmental
performance of 1500 companies in Canada |
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Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development
works to foster sustainable development in the poor countries of the South through support
of programs and projects in the areas of sustainable agriculture, health and social
development. |
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Euro Environment Major issues of
industrial environmental performance will be addressed through five parallel themes and
conference sessions. |
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UCLA Center for Clean Technology's
pollution prevention program is advancing the strategy of stopping or reducing the
generation of wastes. Research and novel educational efforts focus on developing
innovative technologies and improving the understanding of the flow of materials. |
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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Working Group
on Sustainable Product Development (UNEP-WG-SPD) was established in the beginning of
1994. The group was formed as a response to 'Agenda 21' of the UNCED. |
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Journal of Industrial
Ecology (at MIT) Industrial Ecology focuses on the potential role of industry in
reducing environmental burdens throughout the product life cycle, from the extraction of
raw materials, to the production of goods, to the use of those goods and to the management
of the resulting wastes. |
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Industry Canada's Canadian Business Environmental
Performance Office (BEPO) BEPO is a one-stop centre for information, tools and
on-line experts on resource conservation, pollution prevention, waste management and
emergency, health and safety management. |
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UNCTAD is the focal point within the United
Nations system for the integrated treatment of development and interrelated issues in the
areas of trade, finance, technology, investment, and sustainable development. |
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Glaxo Wellcome - Health, Safety and Environment (HSE)
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The Council
of Great Lakes Industries is a non-profit organization that represents the common
interests of U.S. and Canadian industrial organizations from the manufacturing, utilities,
transportation, communications, financial services and trade sectors that have investments
in the Great Lakes Basin. |
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The
International Institute for Sustainable Development's mission is to promote
sustainable development in decision making internationally and within Canada. |
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The International Corporate Environmental
Reporting Site - an international directory for information on environmental
reporting. |
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The objective of the Earth Charter is to set forth an inspiring vision
of the fundamental principles of a global partnership for sustainable development and
environmental conservation. |
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Green
CrossRoads is a Green Cross International initiative which offers a multi-level forum
focusing on conflict prevention and new forms of information exchange and multi-sectoral
dialogue. |
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IUCN's
mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve
the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is
equitable and ecologically sustainable. |
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UNCED Documents - The
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) was held from June 3
through June 14, 1992, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
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SD Gateway contextualizes new thinking and
solutions being developed by the organizations involved with the "Spinning the
Web" project - a collaboration between IISD, IDRC, and a network of some of the best
independent sustainable development institutes in the world. |
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USA
Environmental Protection Agency whose mission is to protect human health and to
safeguard the natural environment — air, water, and land — upon
which life depends. |
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s overarching
mission is to help countries build national capacity to achieve sustainable, human
development, giving top priority to eliminating poverty and building equity. You can also
find the UNDP's Human Development Report for 1998 entitled Consumption for Human Development. |
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This compendium of individual country
economic trends complements the World Bank's World Development Report, which looks at
major global and regional economic trends and their implications for the future prospects
of the developing economies. |
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This Green Design Initiative (Carnegie Mellon
University) involves forming partnerships with industrial corporations, foundations,
and government agencies to develop joint research and education programs which improve
environmental quality while encouraging sustainable economic development. |
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Yearbook of International Co-operation on
Environment and Development (formerly Green Globe Yearbook). |
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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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Amnesty International, one of the world's largest
international voluntary organizations dealing with human rights. |
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Center
for International Environmental Law (CIEL) is a public interest, not-for-profit
environmental law firm founded in 1989 to bring the energy and experience of the U.S.
public interest environmental movement to the critical task of strengthening and
developing international and comparative environmental law, policy, and management around
the world. |
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Natural
Resources Defense Council A non-profit organization with more than 350,000
members nationwide, NRDC's mission is to preserve the environment, protect the public
health, and ensure the conservation of wilderness and natural resources. |
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