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General overview of websites:
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· UNEP United Nations Environment Programme >
o Thematic Areas > Business & Industry > e.g.
§ UNEP DTIE (Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics) >> e.g.
· Production and Consumption Branch > e.g.
o Cleaner Production, Environmental Management Tools, Waste Management
· UNIDO UN Industrial Development Organization > e.g.
o Approach > UNIDO Services >
§ Environmental Management > e.g.
· NCPCs (National Cleaner Production Centers)
· GEMI (Global Environmental Management Initiative; USA) »is a non-profit organization of leading companies dedicated to fostering environmental, health and safety excellence and corporate citizenship worldwide.« > e.g.
o GEMI Projects > e.g.
o GEMI Conferences (with presentations)
o GEMI Publications
· US EPA (USA) > Gateway to International Best Practices and Innovations > also
o EMS, Industrial Ecology, Eco-Efficiency, Cleaner production
· Greener World Media (Oakland, CA) >
o Our Brands >
§ GreenBiz.com > e.g.
· All News
· Energy & Climate >
o Climate, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Clean Tech
· Business Operations
· Design & Innovation
· Resource Efficiency >
o Compliance & EMS, Pollution Prevention (P2), Waste, Water
· Resources
§ ClimateBiz »The Business Resource for Climate Management«
· Launched in 2001 by environmental and high-tech business pioneers Ron Pernick and Joel Makower, Clean Edge is a leading clean-tech research and consulting firm with offices in the San Francisco, Bay Area and Portland, Oregon.
· SLM Sustainable Life Media »People, Information and Events to Help You Innovate for Sustainability, Profitably!« (Burlingame, CA, USA)
· IW IndustryWeek (Penton Media, Cleveland, Ohio) »Connecting Manufacturing's Leaders«
· BSR Business for Social Responsibility (USA) > e.g.
o Insight > e.g.
§ Reports > thematic areas:
· Climate Change, Water, Land Use / Biodiversity
§ Issue Briefs > e.g.
· Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Forest Friendly Practices, Green Building Design, Green Product Design, Overview of Business and the Environment, Supplier Environmental Management, Sustainable Business Practices, Waste Reduction and Resource Productivity, Water Issues
· The Climate Group »is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing business and government leadership on climate change. We are based in the UK, the USA and Australia and we operate internationally.«
· Australian Government >> Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts > Human Settlements >
o Business and industry sustainability >
· Industry Canada (Strategis has merged with ic.gc.ca to provide a single point of entry to our programs and services.) >> e.g.
o Programs and Services > By Subject >
§ Sustainability and Environment >
· Corporate Social Responsibility
· Eco-efficiency > also
o Eco-efficiency Links
· Other Resources > Building Sustainable Enterprises (2004 Workshop)
· NRTEE National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (Canada) > e.g.
o Program List >
· Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia, Canada) >
o Faculty of Management >
· CEAA Canadian Environmental Auditing Association
· IISD International Institute for Sustainable Development (Head Office: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) >
o Our Knowledge >
§ Measurement and Assessment >
· Applying our Knowledge >
o Business
o Publications Centre >
§ Choose a Theme > Business
o Site Index > Business = BSDglobal (last updated 2003 ??) > e.g.
· CPA Clean Production Action
· Environmental Management Navigator (In cooperation of Wuppertal Institute, UNIDO, UNEP) >
o For non-members are accessible:
§ Current and future trends in the area of environmental management (.pdf, 27 pp.)
§ Environmental cost accounting (.pdf, 17 pp.)
· WBCSD World Business Council for Sustainable Development
· CleanerProduction.com »Cleaner Production International LLC offers sustainable business consulting services around the world, with specialization in organization sustainability management, developing countries and in design of government programs to promote sustainable business.« > e.g.
o Training
o Directory = The Gateway for Sustainable Business, Cleaner Production, and Pollution Prevention > e.g.
§ Networks around the world that connect people and organizations working on sustainable business.
§ Sector-specific guidance for sustainable business, from aerospace to zoos - learn what the competition is doing and the best practices in sectors
§ Tools for day-to-day management of a green business, from accounting to shipping >
· Management, Assessments, Measurement, Design, Purchasing, Reporting
§ Periodicals including academica and popular journals covering sustainable business issues
§ The Sustainable Balanced Scorecard
o Sustainable Business in Seattle and Washington State
o CD ROM Library with more than 500 of the best non-copyright publications on how to manage and promote sustainable business, with a focus on operations management. Each resource is described.
· NCI Natural Capital Institute (Sausalito, California, USA) >> e.g.
o WiserBusiness (to come)
o WiserEarth > e.g.
§ Areas of Focus > e.g.
· Business and Economics (organizations, users, resources, jobs, events)
· Cleaner Production in China (updated ??) >
o CP Concepts (Cleaner Production/Pollution Prevention, Responsible Care)
o CP Tools (Links and descriptions to organisations, publications, tools) covering >
§ LCA, PER, Environmental Indicators, Industrial Ecology, Codes of Practice, Environmental Audits, EMS, Environmental Accounting, Design for Environment, Environmental Labelling, Performance Based Contracting, Eco-Efficiency, Environmental Taxes.
· EECZ Environment-oriented Enterprise Consultancy Zhejiang (China; English and Chinese versions of website; A Sino-German technical cooperation programme, GTZ & Zhejiang Environmental Protection Bureau; Focused on Hazardous Waste & Eco-Efficiency)
· Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (China; Also English version of website) >> e.g.
· SustainAsia Ltd (Hong Kong) > e.g.
· APRSCP Asia Pacific Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production
· JEMAI Japan Environmental Management Association for Industry (Also English version of website)
· JFS Japan for Sustainability (Also English version of website)
· Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia) >
o National Centre for Sustainability > e.g.
§ Resource Bank (Many links)
· Ecolatina (Brazil) - Conferência Latino-Americana sobre Meio Ambiente e Responsibilidade Social
· EEA European Environment Agency >
o About EEA > Networks >
§ EnviroWindows - EEA platform for knowledge sharing and development
· Europa >> European Commission >> e.g.
o Environment > e.g.
§ Policies > e.g.
· Industry and Technology > e.g.
o ETAP Environmental Technologies Action Plan > e.g.
§ Links & Events > also many
· Links
o Eco-label
o Integrated Product Policy (IPP)
o Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS)
o Pollution from industrial installations (IPPC Directive)
o Small and medium-sized (SMEs) and environment
o The greening of public procurement
o Standardisation
§ Integration >
· Enterprise = Environment and Enterprise
o Research > e.g.
§ Who are you? >
· Business
· erScp »European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production«
o »is a non-profit organisation that provides a platform to stimulate, develop and disseminate new initiatives to foster implementation of CP concepts and approaches within local and regional sustainable development initiatives.«
§ Many (over 100) presentations downloadable at each erScp
§ > e.g.
· The 11th erScp, 20-22 June 2007, Basel, Switzerland
· The 10th erScp, 5-7 October 2005, Antwerp, Belgium
· The 9th erScp, 12-14 May 2004, Bilbao, Spain
· The first erScp was held in Graz in 1994. Following annual Roundtables were held in Rotterdam, Kalundborg, Oslo, Lisbon, Budapest, Lund and Cork.
· The Sustainable Consumption Research Exchange network (SCORE!) (2005-2008)
o »was set up to bundle SCP research expertise, in the EU and beyond.«
o The Network project SCORE! acts as one of the EU`s central support structures for the UN`s 10 Year Framework of Programs for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP). In a series of workshops and conferences we analyse the state of the art in SCP research, and promote cases of (radical) sustainable consumption for mobility, agro-food and energy use.
· SoP Sustainability of the Planet Program (or here; Sinf, Sweden) is a promoter of sustainability projects, assisting in project shaping and acting as a broker between projects and sources for financial support.
· Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH
o = Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy (Germany) > e.g.
§ Our Research > e.g.
· Sustainable Production and Consumption
· UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP)
· INEM International Network for Environmental Management
o INEM is the world federation of non-profit national business associations for environmental management with about 30 member associations and cleaner production centres in 25 countries (as of August 2006)
o »INEM places a special emphasis on SMEs, as well as developing countries and Central & Eastern Europe / Newly Independent States, and partnerships among business, local authorities and academic / research institutions.«
o > e.g.
§ About INEM > e.g
· Members:
o Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia
· ISO International Organization for Standardization > e.g.
o Products >
§ ISO Standards >
· Management Standards >
o Standards development >
§ Technical committees > List of ISO technical committees >
· TC 207: Environmental management
· Consultnet Limited (Ireland) »A Unique Gateway to Safety, Occupational Health and Environment (SHE) Information including Sustainable Development« >
o Safety, Environmental and Sustainable Development News from EU and International sources updated daily (grouped by topics)
o Information (links) on a Range of Topics including:
o (Topics include: Corporate Social Reporting, Social Investing)
o (Topics include: ISO14000, Waste, Water, Biodiversity, Air Quality, Environmental Sampling, Contaminated Land, NGO's, Planning, Energy, Noise)
§ Safety
o (Topics include: Radiation, Noise, Vibration, Ergonomics, Home, Confined Space, Gas, Manual Handling, Machine Guarding, Safety Statement, Stress, Electrical, Behaviour Based, Safety Management/OHSAS18000, Crowd Safety, EMF, Water, Insurance, Personal Protective Equipment)
o (Topics Include: Toxicology, Occupational Hygiene, Rehabilitation, Travel, Pregnancy, Workplace Drugs, Dermatology)
o (Topics Include: Fire, Rescue, Bio-terrorism, Accidents)
§ SHE Legislation and Standards
§ comprehensive section focused on