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Many organisations
around the world work towards sustainable development. This list, while by no
means comprehensive, provides useful contacts and starting points for those
seeking information, funding, project support and networking opportunities for
environmental and sustainable development work. This list largely reflects the many organisations that supported
and participated in the Conference on Sustainable Development in East Timor.
A
website and Email address are provided for most organisations.
The East Timor NGO Forum
is an umbrella organisation for the many national NGOs in East Timor. A list of
East Timorese NGOs and their contact details, including those working on
environment and sustainable development can be found at:
http://www.geocities.com/etngoforum/nngo.html
Email East Timor NGO
Forum: etngocentre@hotmail.com
Email: amnestyis@amnesty.org
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards.
Email: acre@acre.murdoch.edu.au
The
Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Renewable Energy (ACRE) seeks to
create an internationally competitive renewable energy industry.
http://www.acfonline.org.au/
E-mail: acf@acfonline.org.au
The ACF is a national
non-government, non-profit environment organisation. ACF campaigns on matters
needing urgent action and has a vision for long-term reform, accountable and
ecologically sound management of cities, industries and natural heritage.
Email: info@bothends.org
Both Ends supports
inspiring environment initiatives all over the world, primarily in developing
countries and central and eastern European countries.
Email: info@bpsolar.com
BP Solar and its extensive network of distributors and dealers provide solar electric power solutions for industrial, commercial, and residential customers throughout the world.
The Ecological
Architects Association (EAA) is a Sydney based association of architects
concerned with ecologically sustainable design.
Email: <tonyedye@magna.com.au><gareth@archinet.com.au><dbaggs@netspace.net.au>
Email: eci@ecouncil.ac.cr
The Earth Council is an
international NGO that helps countries implement sustainable development.
The Earth Council operates in partnership with governments or organisations to
assist countries to establish National Councils for Sustainable Development
(NCSDs).
Environmental
Defenders Office (Australia) (EDO)
Email: edonsw@edo.org.au
The National EDO Network consists of nine independently
constituted and managed community environmental legal centres spread across
Australia. Each EDO office is dedicated to protecting the environment in the
public interest.
Environmental
Technology Centre, Murdoch University (Western Australia) (ETC)
http://wwwies.murdoch.edu.au/etc/
Email:
anda@essun1.murdoch.edu.au
The aim of the ETC is to research, develop and demonstrate environmental technologies, conduct education and training, provide consultancy services to industry, and raise community awareness of environmental technologies. The Centre includes an integrated operational display of technology for sustainable development.
http://www.foei.org/ (FoE Australia: http://www.foe.org.au/)
Email: foei@foei.org
(FoE Australia email: foe@foe.org.au)
Friends of the Earth is the
world's largest federation of environmental groups, uniting close to one
million activists worldwide. FoEI's member organisations in 68 countries
and 13 affiliate groups campaign on the most urgent environmental and social
issues of our day.
Greenpeace
International
Email: supporter.services@ams.greenpeace.org
Human Rights Watch is
dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.
Indonesian Centre
for Environmental Law (ICEL)
Email: icel@indosat.net.id
ISF works in
partnership with industry, government and the community to develop programs
that provide an active and practical response to current issues of economic,
social and ecological sustainability.
Email: HeadOffice@ifoam.org
The International Federation of Organic Agriculture
Movements is the worldwide umbrella organisation of the organic agriculture
movement, with about 740 member organisations and institutions in some 103
countries all over the world.
International Institute for
Environment and Development (IIED)
Email: mailbox@iied.org.
IIED aims to provide expertise
and leadership in researching and achieving sustainable development at local,
national, regional and global levels.
Email: info@iisd.ca
The Canadian based IISD
works to make development sustainable by putting forward policy recommendations
based on careful analysis on international trade, economic instruments, climate
change and natural resource management.
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
http://www.iclei.org (Australia and New
Zealand http://www.iclei.org/anz)
Email: iclei@iclei.org (Australia and New Zealand Email: anz@iclei.org)
ICLEI is an association
of local governments dedicated to the prevention and solution of local, regional,
and global environmental problems through local action. Over 300 cities, towns,
counties, and their associations from around the world are members of ICLEI.
http://http://www.etan.org/lh/default.htm
Email: laohamutuk@easttimor.minihub.org
La'o Hamutuk is a joint East Timorese-international organisation that seeks to monitor and to report on the activities of the principal international institutions present in East Timor.
Email: mpi@mpi.org.au
MPI monitors and
campaigns on the extensive environmental and social impacts of the minerals
industry in the Asia-Pacific region.
Email: info@ofa.org.au
The OFA is the peak
industry body for the Australian organic and biodynamic industry. It
actively lobbies for increased resources for sustainable agriculture and
provides information and advisory and extension services and resources to its
members, the public and government.
Email to ozgreen@ozgreen.org.au
Oz GREEN is a NGO that offers environmental
education programs. It is part of the
Global Rivers Environmental Education Network, an international network
committed to actively improving and sustaining the planet's water.
Email: pcrc@is.com.fj
The
PCRC serves as the secretariat for the Nuclear Free and Independent
Pacific (NFIP) movement. PCRCs
objective is to educate the peoples of the Pacific regarding their environment,
political and economic equity, and justice and peace in their region.
Email:
protimos@aol.com
The Protimos
Foundation is an organisation of practicing and academic
lawyers and environmentalists which aims to provide assistance to creating and
improving legal and institutional methods for equitable use of biodiversity
resources.
Email: ftcsss@ku.ac.th
The Regional Community Forestry
Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific is an international organisation which
works to actively support community forestry development in the region.
http://www.sidsnet.org/pacific/sprep/
Email: sprep@sprep.org.ws
SPREP is a regional organisation established by the governments and administrations of the Pacific region to look after its environment. The members of SPREP are all 22 Pacific island countries and territories and Australia, France, New Zealand and the United States of America.
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/
Email: dsd@un.org
The Commission on
Sustainable Development was created in December 1992 to ensure effective
follow-up of the Rio Earth Summit and to monitor and report on implementation
of the Earth Summit agreements at the local, national, regional and
international levels.
http://www.undp.east-timor.org/
UNDP is the UN's principal
provider of development advice, advocacy and grant support. The East Timor Web
site includes publications and information about East Timor.
Email: ipainfo@unep.org
UNEP works with
governments to promote environmentally sound forms of development, and
coordinates global action for development without destruction of the
environment.
Email: WALHI@walhi.or.id
WALHI is a forum established by civil society groups and is composed of NGOs and environment groups. WALHI aims to achieve the sustainable management of the environment and natural resources by emphasising principles of justice, community participation, and democracy.
IUCN works through a
worldwide partnership of states, government agencies, NGOs, affiliates,
scientists and experts to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout
the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that
use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
Email: worldwatch@worldwatch.org
Worldwatch is a non-profit public policy research organisation dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental support systems.
Email: w-panda@client-mail.com
WWF is the world's largest
private international conservation organisation. It promotes public awareness
of conservation problems and works to protect of threatened species and
environments.
Email: wedo@wedo.org
WEDO
is an international advocacy organisation that seeks to increase the power of
women worldwide as policymakers at all levels in governments, institutions and
forums to achieve economic and social justice, a healthy and peaceful planet,
and human rights for all.
Email: front@wri.org
The World Resources
Institute provides information, ideas, and solutions to global environmental
problems.
A number of influential documents have been published
to help ensure the global achievement of sustainable development. In 1980,
IUCN, UNEP and WWF published the World Conservation Strategy. Ten years later, the same three
organisations published Caring
for the Earth, which builds on all that has been learned in the
last decade about the complexity of the problems and shows how radical and far
reaching are the actions and objectives needed to meet them. The text of Caring for the Earth can be
found at:
The report of the World Commission on
Environment and Development Our Common Future was published in 1987. Our Common future
examines critical environment and development problems on the planet and puts
forward realistic proposals to solve them.
http://www.igc.org/habitat/agenda21/
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agenda21.htm
The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 resulted in a major
sustainable development strategy-Agenda 21. Agenda 21 set out
to specify the issues and topics that need to be dealt with in any attempt to
achieve sustainability. It addresses poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy and
environmental degradations as a set of interrelated issues. Agenda 21 requires each country to draw up a national
strategy of sustainable development.
A Handbook for their
Planning and Implementation by
Jeremy Carew-Reid, Robert Prescott-Allen, Stephen Bass and
Barry Dalal-Clayton
http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssp/natmain.html
A handbook for people who are or expect to be involved in developing and implementing National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDSs) or other multi-sectoral national strategies.
Email: info@ncsdnetwork.org
The
Earth Council operates in partnership with governments or organisations to
assist countries to establish National Councils for Sustainable Development
(NCSDs) to promote and implement sustainable
development at the national level.
Editors:
Jon Pedersen and Marie Arneberg, Project Director David L. Phillips
http://sipa.columbia.edu/ICRP/easttimor.html
This
report was published in November 1999. It provides base-line data of
socio-economic conditions in East Timor at the time of the UN-sponsored
referendum on autonomy for East Timor (August 1999).
UN Common Country Assessment (East Timor)
<http://www.undp.east-timor.org/CCA.PDF>
This report was published
in November 2000 by all UN agencies in East Timor to provide an analysis of
development needs. It provides
base-line data and highlights a number of key development issues that need to
be addressed to achieve socio-economic development that is human oriented,
equitable and sustainable.
Assessing Environmental Needs and Priorities in East
Timor: Issues and Priorities Odd Terje Sandlund, Ian
Bryceson, Demetrio de Carvahlo, Narve Rio, Joana da Silva, Maria Isabel Silva
http://www.undp.east-timor.org/Factsheets/I&P-report.pdf
A report published in
2001 that outlines the major environmental issues facing East Timor today, and
addresses the main environmental priorities.
Teaching and
Learning for a Sustainable Future
A multimedia teacher
education program published by UNESCO can be found at;
http://www.unesco.org/education.tlsf/
Environmental
Defenders Office (Australia) (EDO)
Email: edonsw@edo.org.au
This
website includes links to: Australian Commonwealth, State and Local Government
environmental information; Australian legal resources; information for
environmental lawyers; Australian environmental NGOs and groups; an Australian
environmental activist legal resource page; and select international
environmental legal links.
A global directory for environmental technology-a
guide to the full spectrum of environmental products & services, featuring 6633 suppliers from
129 countries.
http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/ORGANISATIONS
Email: bkest@ulb.ac.be
