Environment for Development

Biodiversity Economics
Sponsored by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and WWF, Biodiversity Economics promotes economic approaches to conservation by sharing documents, contacts, and information about upcoming events.

CEEPA, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa
CEEPA, University of Pretoria. The mission of CEEPA is to enhance the capacity of African researchers to conduct environmental economics and policy inquiry of relevance to African problems, and increase the awareness of environmental and economic managers and policy makers about the role of environmental economics in sustainable development. 

EEPSEA, Economy and Environment Program for South East Asia
Established in 1993, EEPSEA supports training and research in environmental & resource economics. It uses a networking approach to provide financial and technical support to researchers in its ten member countries. 

ICRAF, World Agroforestry Centre
ICRAF uses science to generate knowledge on the complex role of trees in livelihoods and the environment. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, with regional centers throughout the developing world in more than 20 countries across Africa, Asia, and South America.

IIED, International Institute for Environment and Development
IIED is an international policy research institute and non-governmental body working for more sustainable and equitable global development. It is based in London and works globally through a wide range of long-standing relationships with partners across the developing world.

IUCN,The World Conservation Union
Since 1948, IUCN has been a global partnership of states, government agencies, NGOs, and experts. Active in over 150 countries, IUCN’s mission is to influence, encourage, and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. IUCN supports efforts to integrate economic perspectives and methods into nature conservation.

LACEEP, Latin Amerian and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program
LACEEP is a capacity building effort that provides research grants in environmental and resource economics to Latin American and Caribbean researchers. LACEEP´s goal is to create capacity in the field of environmental economics among Latin American and Caribbean academic and non- academic research and policy-making institutions.

Poverty Environment Partnership
The Poverty Environment Partnership is an informal network of development agencies, which seeks to improve the coordination of work on poverty reduction and the environment within the framework of internationally agreed principles and processes for sustainable development.

PREM, Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management
The Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management (PREM) programme aims to deepen and broaden the exposure of economic researchers and policy advisors in developing countries to the theory and methods of natural resource management and environmental economics. It is envisaged that this will encourage effective policy change in developing countries with the joint goals of poverty reduction and sustainable environmental management.

RUPES, Rewarding the Upland Poor in Asia for Environmental Services They Provide
A program for developing mechanisms for rewarding the upland poor in Asia for the environmental services they provide (RUPES)

SANDEE, South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics
The South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE) is a regional network that uses economic tools and analyses to address South Asia's environmental challenges. It is based on the premise that solutions to economic development concerns and environmental problems are integrally linked.

UNDP-UNEP Poverty -Environment Initiative (PEI)
The UNDP-UNEP Poverty -Environment Initiative (PEI) is a joint programme to provide financial and technical support to countries to build capacity for mainstreaming poverty-environment linkages into national development planning processes, such as PRSP’s and MDG Achievement Strategies.