List of environmental organizations explained
An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movementsthat seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces.
In this sense the environment may refer to the biophysical environment or the natural environment. The organization may be a charity, a trust, a non-governmental organization, a governmental organization or an intergovernmental organization. Environmental organizations can be global, national, regional or local. Some environmental issues that environmental organizations focus on include pollution, plastic pollution, waste, resource depletion, human overpopulation and climate change.
Intergovernmental organizations
See also: List of supranational environmental agencies.
Global organizations
Governmental agencies
See main article: article and List of environmental ministries. Many states have agencies devoted to monitoring and protecting the environment:
- Bangladesh
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Saudi Arabia
- South Africa
- Switzerland
- United States
See main article: article and List of environmental agencies in the United States.
International non-governmental organizations
These organizations are involved in environmental management, lobbying, advocacy, and/or conservation efforts:
International
Continental
Africa
Europe
North America
East Asia
Southeast Asia
National non-governmental organizations
These organizations are involved in environmental management, lobbying, advocacy, and/or conservation efforts at the national level:
Albania
Australia
Austria
Bangladesh
Belgium
Bolivia
Cambodia
Canada
Cape Verde
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Ethiopia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungry
India
Indonesia
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Kenya
Korea
North Macedonia
Madagascar
Malta
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Pakistan
Palestine
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Romania
Sierra Leone
- ENFORAC (Environmental Forum for Action)
South Africa
Spain
Switzerland
See main article: article.
Tanzania
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
See main article: article and List of environmental and conservation organizations in the United States.
See also
Further reading
- Johnson, Erik W. . Scott Frickel. Scott Frickel. Ecological Threat and the Founding of U.S. National Environmental Movement Organizations, 1962–1998. Social Problems. 58 (Aug. 2011). 3. 305–29. 10.1525/sp.2011.58.3.305 . This study examines the role of ecological threat in shaping the U.S. environmental movement. … Declines in wildlife populations are associated with the foundings of wildlife and wilderness protection organizations while increases in air pollution are associated with the foundings of organizations focused on ecosystem well-being and public health.. 2011.
Notes and References
- Web site: China Greentech Initiative. Beijing Foreign Enterprise Human Resources Service Co, Ltd.. 9 May 2013.
