| 1. International Maritime Organization : Pollution - Wastes - Marine pollution |
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| The International Maritime Organization is the United Nations specialized agency responsible for improving maritime safety and preventing pollution from ships. We are also committed to technical co-operation. http://www.imo.org/index.htm
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| First published in 1978, the UNEP Industry and Environment quarterly review provides a forum for the exchange of research and experience, presenting articles written by and for industry managers, government officials and researchers in the field of sustainable industrial development. It covers policy, technological and scientific developments related to business and the environment. Each issue of the review focuses on a particular theme. It also includes features, news and developments of broad international interest. http://www.uneptie.org/media/review/vol20no3/vol20no3.htm
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| The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a non-governmental organization established in 1947. The mission of ISO is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity. http://www.iso.org/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage
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| The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is a diverse, knowledge-based institution that spans the Hindu Kush-Himalayan range east to west and north to south and brings together mountain scientists and farmers in a common cause from diverse nationalities in a region that is difficult politically, physically, and economically. ICIMOD develops, tests, and shares knowledge that helps poor mountain people have better and more sustainable lives. ICIMOD works with mountain people to find solutions that they need. http://www.icimod.org.sg/
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| GreenCOM is the Environmental and Education Project of USAID
Began in 1993
Managed by the Academy for Educational Development of Washington D.C.
Uses environmental education, communications, and social marketing to foster environmentally sustainable development
Has conducted projects in 28 developing countries http://www.usaid.gov/environment/greencom/
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| For more than sixty years, the National Wildlife Federation has been a leader in environmental education, reaching out to the communities where children and adults live, work and play. Explore NWF's educational pathways to understanding, appreciating and safeguarding the natural world. http://www.nwf.org/education/
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| The United Nations is central to global efforts to solve problems which challenge humanity. Cooperating in this effort are more than 30 affiliated organizations, known together as the UN system. Day in and day out, the UN and its family of organizations work to promote respect for human rights, protect the environment, fight disease, foster development and reduce poverty. UN agencies define the standards for safe and efficient transport by air and sea, help improve telecommunications and enhance consumer protection, work to ensure respect for intellectual property rights and coordinate allocation of radio frequencies. The United Nations leads the international campaigns against drug trafficking and terrorism. Throughout the world, the UN and its agencies assist refugees and set up programmes to clear landmines, help improve the quality of drinking water and expand food production, make loans to developing countries and help stabilize financial markets. http://www.un.org/
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| Welcome to the Explore's Club - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's website for kids(ages 5-12). Get ready to explore your environment and learn about the neat things you can do to protect it. There are games, pictures, and stories and other fun things. http://www.epa.gov/kids/
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| Earth Day Network is the nonprofit coordinating body of worldwide Earth Day activities. Our goal is to promote a healthy environment and a peaceful, just, sustainable world by spreading environmental awareness through educational materials and publications, and by organizing events, activities, and annual campaigns. Our network includes more than 5,000 organizations in 184 countries. It's a wide wide Web out there, chock-full of interesting and valuable projects, games, downloadable files, and more. There's plenty to help you develop a curriculum to celebrate Earth Day in the weeks and months leading up to April 22nd. http://www.earthday.net/howto/tc-other.stm
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| The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies interprets the collective knowledge of the Smithsonian and serves as a gateway to its educational resources. Through research, publishing, and staff development programs for the education and museum communities, the Center promotes the understanding and use of museums. http://web7.si.edu/ftlr/ut/about_fs.html
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| The International Labour Organization is the UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights. It was founded in 1919 and is the only surviving major creation of the Treaty of Versailles, which brought the League of Nations into being; it became the first specialized agency of the UN in 1946. http://www.ilo.org/
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| SeaWorld/Busch Gardens is an animal information database and can be used only for educational purposes. http://www.seaworld.org/
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| Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystem (GCTE) is a Core Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP).GCTE has two objectives: To predict the effects of changes in climate, atmospheric composition, and land use on terrestrial ecosystems, including (i) agriculture, forestry, soils; and (ii) biodiversity.
To determine how these effects lead to feedbacks to the atmosphere and the physical climate system. http://gcte.org/
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| In the period 1991–1994 the RISC (= Risk Identification of Soil Contamination) project was carried out. The objective of this project was the development of a framework for a knowledge-based system for risk identification of individual contaminated sites. The created RISC-framework uses expertise on presence and behaviour of contaminants in soils in order to predict potential risks for man and environment. http://www.risc-site.nl/
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| SeaWorld/Busch Gardens is an animal information database and can be used only for educational purposes. http://www.seaworld.org
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| The aim of the Astronomical Institute is the development of basic and applied research in Astrophysics. The principal task of the Institute is the collection and processing of observational material obtained from facilities on Earth and in space. The Institute also supports the education and the propagation of astronomical knowledge and provides specialized services. http://www.astro.noa.gr/
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| The INTERNATIONAL WINE ACADEMY Inc . was originally conceived as the Wine Information Bureau, Perth, Western Australia, 1974. The name was changed to Wine Australia and eventually to I.W.A. in the late seventies http://www.wineacademy.com/
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| Our Mission... The Center leads awareness of and access to information about Great Lakes environmental subjects by promoting learning links for teachers, students and other stakeholders in the international Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin ecosystem. http://www.greatlakesed.org/Welcome.html
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| Landcare Research is an independent Crown Research Institute that focuses on management of land resources for conservation and for primary production http://www.landcare.cri.nz/
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