Sustainability

"Climate Change Policy & Practice is a knowledge management project for international negotiations and related activities on climate change. It was launched in 2008 and is managed by by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Reporting Services, which is fully responsible for the content posted on Climate Change Policy & Practice."

"Climate Change: The Discovery of Global Warming, is a detailed hypertext history by science historian Spencer Weart. The essays are in lucid, understandable prose and demonstrate rigorous scholarship."

The EIA "collects, analyzes, and disseminates independent and impartial energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment."

"This authoritative, exceptional resource offers researchers and policy makers worldwide a product of superior quality to examine global and local energy use and outlooks. Full reports for each area are available in HTML and PDF formats."

"Building upon a strong foundation of science, partnership and field demonstration, CI empowers societies to responsibly and sustainably care for nature, our global biodiversity, for the well-being of humanity."

"At the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, world leaders agreed on a comprehensive strategy for "sustainable development" -- meeting our needs while ensuring that we leave a healthy and viable world for future generations. One of the key agreements adopted at Rio was the Convention on Biological Diversity."

"NRDC is the nation's most effective environmental action organization. We use law, science and the support of 1.3 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends."

"This interactive atlas from the United Nations Environment Programme provides useful information to all interested in both natural and human-made changes in our planet of the last 30-40 years."

These online reports offer a collection of data from the World Development Indicators for specific countries, regions and income groups.

Adjusted net savings measures measures the true rate of savings in an economy after taking into account investment in human capital, depletion of natural resources and damage caused by pollution.

Estimates of wealth and its components are available for nearly 120 countries.

Contains online reports classified by topics including agriculture, forests and biodiversity, energy, emissions and pollution, water and sanitation, and environment and health.

Factsheets contain information covering topics such as Agriculture (eg., fertilizer consumption), Biodiversity (eg., known bird species) to Environmental Health (eg., air pollution damages).

"The FAO of the UN is the world's leader if efforts to eliminate hunger. In that vein, the organization has created this informational site, which brings together several analyses, reports, and statistics about the current global food and hunger crisis."

"PRB's vision is a world in which decisionmakers improve the health and well-being of all people through evidence-based policies and practices.
To further this vision, we inform people around the world about population, health, and the environment. We also empower people to use this information to advance the well-being of current and future generations."