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The 2006 Global Accountability Index assesses thirty of the world's most powerful organisations from intergovernmental, corporate and non-governmental sectors. The Index analyses these organisations in the four dimensions of accountability as defined by the Global Accountability Framework: transparency, participation, evaluation, and complaint and response mechanisms.
- CSD RELEASES REVISED SET OF INDICATORS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The UN Division for Sustainable Development (UNDSD) has announced the release of the third, revised set of indicators of sustainable development prepared for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). New features of this third revision include the creation of a new set of 50 core indicators. The revisions were finalized in 2006 by an expert group of indicator experts from developing and developed countries and international organizations. These revised indicators will be incorporated into the 3rd edition of the “Blue book” on CSD indicators, which is expected to be published in 2007.
Link to further information: CSD Indicators of Sustainable Development.
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Environmental
Sustainability Index (ESI) 2005
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National Sustainable
Development Strategies - Global Map
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Trends in
Sustainable Development report
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World
Development Report 2003
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Human
Development Report 2002
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Human
Development Report 2001
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Environmental
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Human
Development report shows worsening poverty in South
Asia
By Priyadarshana Maddawatta, 29 November 1999
- Rio
Declaration On Environment And Development
- Rio+10
- World Summit on Sustainable Development
- The
Ends and Means of Sustainability
by Amartya Sen (983kb)
- Towards
a New Paradigm for Development: Strategies, Policies,
and Processes
by Joseph E. Stiglitz (102kb)
- Poverty
Alleviation and Sustainable Development: Implications
for the Management of Natural Capital
by Anil Markandya (253kb)
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Social Capital and Sustainable
Development: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions
in a Developing
by Kanchan Chopra (121kb)
- Poverty
Reduction Strategy Papers-Progress in Implementation
by the Staffs of the International Monetary Fund and the
World Bank (317kb)
- Report
of the Commission on Sustainable Development
- The NCSD
Sustainable Development Report is a progress report
that documents successful practice and problem areas,
and assesses the effectiveness of NCSDs in influencing
policy decisions in several key thematic areas. By exchanging
experiences among countries, the Earth Council expects
to promote a transfer of knowledge to facilitate the creation
and strengthening of such Councils.
- THE
WORLD BANK FORUM ON ENVIRONMENTALLY AND SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT: A CONVERSATION WITH EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT PARTNERS
Thirty-eight representatives from European government
agencies concerned with the environment, international
development cooperation and finance met informally on
Tuesday, 8 June 1999 with the vice president and senior
managers of the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable
Development (ESSD) Network of the World Bank to discuss
sustainable development issues. The forum’s objective
was to initiate an informal dialogue between the World
Bank and interested European government partners on the
Bank's work programs and strategic planning efforts related
to sustainable development. The day-long forum, the first
of its kind, took place at the Bank's European Office
in Paris.
Commission
on Sustainable Development
11th
Session, New York, 28 April - 9 May 2003 (Documents)
Other Documents
Background Documents
Local Organization
- Ministry of Environment and
Forest
Sustainable
Development Related
International Links
- Indigenous
Knowledge and Development Monitor
New
- SciDev.Net
- South Asian gateway
- Sustainable
Living Network
- Earth
Council Online Learning Center for Sustainable Development
- International
Foundation for Human Development (IFHD)
-
- Eco-Portal
- The EnvironmentalSustainability.Info Source
An Information Gateway Empowering the Movement for Environmental
Sustainability
- Climate
Change Knowledge Network
-
Climate Change and Sustainable
Transport -- OECD
- A
list of environmental and telecommunications events and
issues, events, monthly
journal.
- Agricultural
Communications Documentation Center, communication,
agriculture, sustainability, development, rural development,
development communication, environmental communication,
economic development
- AgDB:
Agriculture-related Databases, Directory of 1,000+
non-bibliographic databases
- Auxilliary
lists for environmentalists and SD workers.
- Best
environmental directories, selection of WWW lists
of lists, by subject.
- Biodiversity
and Biological Collections, taxonomy, genetics, biology
gophers
- Central
Africa, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo,
Congo Kinshasa, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Burundi, Rwanda,metadatabase.
Databases and collections on Central Africa from the last
century.
- Community
based indicators, United States
- Community
Resources Centre - Textbases, references on environment,
labour, women, human rights.
- Conferences,
environment, labour, women, human rights.
- Data
accessible on-line.for environmentalists and SD workers.
- Definitions
and literature, a selection of sites.
- Definitions:
what is sustainable development?, link to various
points of view.
- Directory
of Human Rights Sites (es), peace, human rights, cooperation,
development and environment, education, health, and social
justice.
- Directory of Non-Governmental
Organisations Active in Sustainable Development. Part1:
Europe, 3900 European NGO. Book + CD-ROM. Contact:
OECD,
2 rue André Pascal, F-75775 Paris. Extract
for Belgian NGOs,
- ECONET
on sustainable development
- Ecotopie,
encyclopédie sur les réalisations écologiques (Belgique-France),
sustainable living (fr).
- Environmental
law (Europe),encyclopedia.
- Environmental
resources, a lot of sites are indexed here.
- EnviroDirectory,
metadatabase on environmental lists of links.
- ELDIS:
Electronic Development and Environment Information System,
metadatabase.
- Forum
on Developing Countries, economic development, international
development, sustainable development
- Global
Environmental Institute education, environment.
- Green
design, metadatabase on construction, architecture,
building
- Green
design, architecture, building (metadatabase)
- GREENTIE
Directory 8,500 international suppliers of technologies,
services, research, data, and literature, pertinent to
greenhouse gas mitigation
- Gender,
Science and Technology Gateway, women's science and
technology contributions to sustainable development
- Guide
to Sustainable Community Indicators, searchable metadatabase.
- Habitat
in developping countries, habitat, developping countries,
thirld world
- Human
dimensions (global change),metadatabase
- Information
sources for sustainable development, comprehensive
metadatabase.
- International
Economic Development Resources
- International
Institute for Sustainable Development, Information Center
Database (IISD), sustainable development, metadatabase.
The best!, Weekly
Journal review, Search,
Journals
and Newsletters currently received, International
institutes, NGOs, The
UN, the Bank and ODA, Contact
list for all organizations, Regional
work, Sectoral
work, Communications
for SD, Information
resources, ...
- International
Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), International
Forest Policy
- International
Research Development Centre - Asia Regional Office
- Links
to Sustainable Development Information and the Americas
, Americas, sustainable agriculture, sustainable development
- Millennium
Eco-Communities on the Green Lane, Canada, resources,
local community groups, making changes. Environmental
issues, best practices, tools, tips and networking opportunities,
community efforts about nature, pollution, and ecology.
- National
parks (list of lists), national parks, directories.
-
Openair-Market Net
- Organizations,
institutions and business services database environment,
animal welfare and human rights
- Overcoming
consumerism, defeat consumerism, save money, work
less and lead a more satisfying and environmentally benign
life while helping to restore the economic self-sufficiency
of your community.
- PANOS,
actuality on developping coutries
- Renew
America's Environmental Success Index, renewable energy,
sustainable living, programs, projects, success stories,
USA.
- Répertoire des Organisations
Non Gouvernementales actives dans le domaine du développement
durable. Tome 1: Europe., 3900 ONG européennes. Livre,
CD-ROM. Contact: OECD,
2 rue André Pascal, F-75775 Paris. Les
ONGs belges sont sur internet,
- Serials,
journals (sustainable development)
- Small
grains, small grains (wheat, ...) production, statistics,
producers directory (USA)
- Small
islands information network, information sources on
small islands sustainability
- SUNSITE
gopher: ecology+evolution ecology, evolutionary biology
- Surf
your watershed,Communities, watersheds (USA).
- SD
Gateway, Calendar of Events, Electronic Mailing Lists
(listservs), News Services, Library Collections.
- Sustainable
Architecture, Building and Culture architecture, building,
ecology, materials, consultants, events
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Sustainable Architecture:
Eco Design and Landscaping
- Sustainable
Business Network, news, resources, insight, green
economy
- Sustainable
Development , human ecology, resources, world wide
computer network
- Sustainable
development best starting points, hard selection from
this Virtual Library
- Sustainable
Development Internet Resources,
- Sustainable
forestry.
- Sustainable
mobility information system (SMIS), mobility, transport,
environment, Belgium
- Sustainable
resources database (North America), metadatabase
- Systema
national de informaçao geographicaPortugal, maps,
GIS, geography, data (en, pt)
- Web
sites on Contribution of Telecommunication on Sustainable
Development, communication, telework, telecommunication
- Universite
Europeenne de l'Environnement, fr
- World
Wide Web Ressources in Economics
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Yahoo: Sustainable Development
- Yearbook
of International Co-operation on Environment and Development,
international environmental treaties, IGOs and international
NGOs, country profiles.
International
Organizations
- ACDI-CIDA,
Canada, development cooperation, thirld world, telephone
Directory
- Addresses
of SD organisations, postal address, phone, fax, e-mail.
- Center
for Alternative Development Initiatives, Philippine,
Agenda 21,South America, Africa and Asia/Pacific.
- Center
for Excellence for Sustainable Development
- Center
for Field Research at Earthwatch sponsors scholarly
field research in biology, sociology, culture, sustainable
development.
- Centre
for international university cooperation, development,
research, developing countries, cooperation, education
- Center
for Sustainable Communities
- Centre
for Research into sustainable systems of agricultural
production Cali, Valle, Colombia , sustainable agriculture
research
- Center
for the Environment at University of California, Environmental
Management, Land Use and Planning, Agriculture, training.
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Chainguard-Online
- Commonwealth
Scientific Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) ,
research, Australia.
- Communications
for Sustainable Development
- Communications
for a Sustainable Future ,education, international
studies, peace, conflict, progressive sociology, sustainable
economics.
- Consultative
Group on International Agricultural Research
- Context
Institute, Sustainable culture, information; from
economics to education, from art to architecture, from
ceremony to community.
- Critical
Shareholders, environmental and social justice in
business.
- CSF
Colorado Environmental Files Collection education,
international studies, peace, conflict, progressive sociology,
sustainable economics.
- Cultural
Survival
- DLO-NL
Agricultural Research Department, agronomy, development,
technology, engineering, safety, etc
- Dubreucq
Etienne, Développement durable et énergie (fr)
- Earthwatch
sponsors scholarly field research in biology, sociology,
culture, sustainable development.
- Earthwatch
sponsors scholarly field research in anthropology.
- Earth
Pledge Foundation
- Ecotopie,
encyclopédie sur les réalisations écologiques (Belgique-France).
- Ecotrust
nonprofit, conservation economy, coastal temperate
rain forests of North America.
- ECNC,
European Centre for Nature Conservation
- ENDA
Tiers Monde, sustainable development, Thirld World,
Cities, developing countries, waste, urban development,
habitat.
- Energie-Cités
(fr) Cities, Europe, urban environment, energy
- GreenLinks
environment, animal welfare and human rights
- EcoVillage
at Ithaca, green market.
- Environment
Resource Information Network, gopher
- EPA,
Office of Sustainable Ecosystems & Communities,
Community Challenge Grants", library, Integrative
Approaches.
- ERP
environment, environment journals, conferences
- ETBPP,
Waste minimisation, business, United Kingdom
- EUROS
(IT), urban ecotecnology, Italy, sustainable cities
(it).
- FAO,
rural development, developing countries, food security.
- Friends
of the Earth
- Future
Generations, NGO, Asia.
- Global
Change Education, The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant
Institute climate change, education
-
Global Forest Policy Clearinghouse
- Greenpeace,
Greenpeace-USA,
activism, sea, whales, radioactivity, toxic releases,
scandals, danger
- GREENTIE
Center greenhouse gas mitigation technologies
- Halmstads
municipality, Agenda 21, Sweden
- Harvard
Biodiversity and Biological Collections gopher, taxonomy,
genetics, biology gophers
- Ho`okipa
Network of Hawaiian CBO's, traditional Hawaiian approaches
to community-based resources managment, taro roots perspective
on the sustainable development movement
- Institute
for Agriculture and Trade Policy
- Institute
of Energy and Sustainable Development, Research, Consultancy
services, business, sensible and sustainable energy management
strategies
- Institute
for Sustainable Forestry
- International
Center for the Advancement of Adult Learning (ICAAL),
training and workshops for government agencies, organizations
and communities.
- International
Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, weekly
e-newsletter
- International
Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
- International
Development Research Centre, Canada
- International
Institute for Sustainable Development, information
sources.
- International
Management Development Institute, University of Pittsburgh
- International
Rivers Network protection and conservation of the
world's rivers and riverine communities.
- International
Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE), experts,
researchers, scientific references, ecological economics,
economy
- International
Urban Development Association, not-for-profit Association
of public and private organisations, government agencies,
business and individuals. Promotion and improvement of
integrated urban and regional development approach.
- IRSUD-Researchers
for Sustainable Development, Economy, Sociology, Territorial
Planning
- Islands and Small
States Institute of the Foundation for International
Studies at the University of Malta. University Building,
St. Paul Street, Valletta VLT 07, Malta. Tel: 356-248218;
Fax:356-230551; e-mail: mailto:lbrig@cis.um.edu.mt,
fragility index, islands, small states, global change.
- Jugendhilfe
Ostafrika, bicycle, Uganda, women
- MA
Toxics Use Reduction Institute, University of Massachusetts
- Malaysian
Timber Council, tropical rainforestry, Malaysia.
- Maryland
Sea Grant, marine ecology, biotechnology
- Millenium
Institute
- Mining
Impact Coalition, mineral resources, mining, impact
- Ministry
of the environment Catalonia (en)(Spanish)
(Catalan),
Catalonia (Spain), sustainable development.
- Multinationals
and Development Clearinghouse
- Municipal
Conservation Association, Business, Industry
- National
Centre for Sustainability USA, public education, imbalance
between human economy and lifestyles and nature's elasticity
or resilience.
- National
Council for Urban Economic Development (CUED), Urban
development, USA.
- Joint
Center for Sustainable Communities, Wash. DC
- National
Parks and Conservation Association
-
Natural Resources Canada
- Sustainable Development
- Natural
Resources Development Centre, Dublin, Ireland
- Natural
Resources Institute
- Nautilus
Institute for Security and Sustainable Development,
security, environment, economic and social issues in Northeast
Asia.
- Nimbkar
Agricultural Research Institute, India, agriculture,
renewable energy, animal husbandry and sustainable development.
-
no-interestloans.org
- Northern
Rim Institute, The publications, cultural, social,
economic, political, and technological development in
boreal forest.
- Nuclear-Free
Future Award (international money prizes), rid the
world of the nuclear scourge, indigenous peoples
- Office
of the Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable Development,
(en, fr) Canada
- Office
of Sustainable Ecosystems and Communities - OSEC,
ecological integrity, economic sustainability and quality
of life, Community Based Environmental Protection, EPA
- One
world volunteers
- Ontario
Waste Management Association , waste, Ontario.
- OREE
(fr) environmental management of firms and activity areas,
France
- Overseas
Development Network (ODN)
- Oxford
Forestry Institute
- Pacific
Institute for Studies in Development, Environment &
Security
- PANOS,
actuality
- People's
Commission on Environment and Development, India
- Population
Action International
- Population
Reference Bureau
- The
President's Council on Sustainable Development USA,
integrate economic and environmental policies
- ReliefNet
- Renew
America, renewable energy, sustainable living, programs,
projects, success stories, USA, Awards.
- Research
Centre for Environment and Planning within the Faculty
of the Built Environment, University of the West of
England, Bristol. Sustainable development, european spatial
planning.
- Rocky
Mountain Institute, Colorado, problem-solving power
of market economics and of advanced techniques for resource
efficiency
- Royal
Botanical Gardens, Kew
- Royal
Road University, Canada, environmental management
systems
-
Rural Action
- The
Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI),
conservation and sustainable improvement of agricultural
biodiversity, socially responsible development of technologies
useful to rural societies. loss of genetic diversity -
especially in agriculture - and impact of intellectual
property rights on agriculture and world food security.
- Schumacher
college, Education about sustainability (Britain)
- SD
Gateway: Development Alternatives, Earth Council , Environmental
Development Action in the Third World (ENDA), Fundación
Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN), International Development
Research Centre (IDRC), International Institute for Sustainable
Development (IISD), Regional Environmental Center for
Central and Eastern Europe (REC), Stockholm Environment
Institute (SEI), Calendar of Events, Electronic Mailing
Lists (listservs), News Services, Library Collections.
- Second
Nature education for sustainability
- SkogForsk
- Small
islands information network, small islands environment
and sustainability
- Society
for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences
nonlinear dynamical systems, complex systems, fractals,
chaos, bifurcations, ecology, economics, social development.
- Society
for Human Population Control
- South
Centre, developing countries
- SPECTRA-
research project on Sustainability Development and Spatial
Planning, spatial planning, sustainable development.
Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the United Kingdom
and the Netherlands.
- Stephen
Bedford Clark SBC & Associates, Sustainable Freshwater
Ecology & Aquaculture Consultancy Services.
- Strategic
Decisions Group at Laurentian University decision
making, health problems, environmental management, policy
debates, social issues.
- Sustainable
Development Department (SDS) of the Inter-American Development
Bank (IDB), (en, es), metadatabase, Full-text publications.
- Sustainable Economic
Growth Program; Centre for Strategic Economic Studies;
Victoria University of Technology
- Sustenance
sustainable organic urban agricultural systems
- Target
Earth International(USA) Serving the Earth, Serving
the Poor
- TUE
Centrum Technologie voor Duurzame Ontwikkeling sustainable
development, The Netherlands (nl)
- uicnhumedales
- UNEP-GRID-Arendal,
environment, North Europe, Antarctic, Norway, data, GIS,
maps.
- United
Nation's Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable
Development, indicators
- United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO)
- United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Office of the
(UNHCR)
- United
Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
- University
of Minnesota Soil Science, gopher, soils, agriculture.
- Urban
Ecology Australia Inc, urban, evolution, ecological
cities, education, example
- USDA,
(gopher), agriculture, water, waste, economic transition,
pesticides, food safety, etc.
- Victoria
Transport Policy Institute
- Le
village des associations, equity, NGOs, telematics,
social development.
- Volunteers
in Technical Assistance WWW or Volunteers
in Technical Assistance Gopher technology adaptation,
development
- Wageningen
Agricultural University Library, agriculture Netherlands
- World
Bank, development
- World
Business Council for Sustainable Development , eco-efficiency
through high standards of environmental and resource management
in business.
- World
Forest Institute forest resources
- World
Health Organization
- World
Meteorological Organization (WMO)
- World
Resources Institute (WRI), sustainable development
indicators, biodiversity, climate change, environmental
education, forest frontiers initiative, forest resources,
health and environment, africa, sustainable agriculture,
trends and indicators, world resources.
- World
Trade Organization (WTO)
Online
Journals
- ASEAN
Review of Biodiversity
- FAO,
SD-Dimensions, articles and news focused on developing
countries, rural development, communication.
- Earth
Negotiations Bulletin
- Environmental
Defense Fund Online--The Web of Life
- Global
Change Education, The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant
Institute climate change, education
- International
Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, weekly
e-newsletter
-
journal of sustainable development
-
OneWorld Online
- PANOS,
news, Thirld World
- Permaculture
International Journal horticulture, permaculture,
Australia
- Solutions,
peer reviewed answers to problems in environment, health,
population and development
-
Review of environmental
and agricultural resources on the net
- Sustainable
Business Insider from recycling to green building,
from renewable energy to organic products, from social
investing to certified forestry.
-
Sustainable Development
and Energy
- Sustainable
Development International, journal, editorial, case
studies, industry
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