interesting links
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Asian Development Bank
http://www.asiandevbank.org/

Australian Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories :
Environment Australia
GPO Box 787 Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
Tel: +61-2-6274 1111
Fax: +61-1-6274 1123
wcathro@nla.gov.au
http://www.dest.gov.au/index.html

Australian Department of Primary Industries and Energy
Land and Water Resources Division
GPO Box 858
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia
Tel: +61 2 6272 4199
Fax: +61 2 6272 5618
nlp-contact@dpie.gov.au
http://www.dpie.gov.au/agfor/landcare/nlp.html
http://www.nht.gov.au

Austrian Federal Ministry for the Environment, Youth and Family :
Stubenbastei 5 A-1010 Vienna, Austria
Mr Franz Schifflhuber
Tel: +43 1 515 220
Fax: +43 1 513 1679
franz.schiffhuber@bmu.gv.at
http://www.bmu.gv.at

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Environment Canada :
Mr. Francois Guimont
Assistant Deputy Minister of the Environment Protection Service
Les Terrasses de la Chaudiere, 22nd floor
10 Wellington Street, K1A OH3, Hull Quebec
Tel: +1 819 953 9995
Fax: +1 819 953 2225
enviroinfo@ec.gc.ca
http://www.ec.gc.ca

Canada Environmental Protection :
Peter Meinyohuk
Deputy Minister
Tel: +1 403 4276236
Fax: +1 403 4270923
infocent@env.gov.ab.ca
http://www.env.gov.ab.ca

Canadian Ministry of the Environment & Energy - Ontario:
Prof. Peter J. Dillon
Manager
Acquatic Science Section
Tel: +1 705 7662418
Fax: +1 705 7662254
dillonpe@epo.gov.on.ca
http://www.ene.gov.on.ca

CEE Regional Environmental Center (REC)
Regional Environmental Centerfor Central and Eastern Europe
Ady Endre 9-11, 2000 Szentendre, Hungary
tel: (36-26) 311-199, fax: (36-26) 311-294.
http://www.rec.hu
e-mail: rec-info@rec.org, CompuServe: 100324,24.

Commission for Environmental Cooperation
http://www.cec.org

Convention on Biological Diversity World Trade Centre
393 St Jacques Street, Office 300
Montréal, Québec, Canada H2Y 1N9
tel: +1-514-288-2220 / fax: +1-514-288-6588
http://www.biodiv.org/

CORDIS
European Community
http://WWW.CORDIS.LU/

Czech Ministry of Environment:
Vrsovicka 65, Prague 10, 100 10, Czech Republic
Tel: +420 2 6712 1111
Fax. +420 2 6731 0308
lenz@env.cz
http://www.cz/index.html

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Danish Ministry of Environment and Energy :
HÀjbro Plads 4 1200, Copenhagen K, Denmark
Tel: +45-33-92-7600
Fax: +45-33-32-22-27
mem@mem.dk
Miljsbutikken (Centre for information on Energy and the Environment)
Tel: 45 33 92 7692
butik@mem.dk
http://www.mem.dk/ukindex.htm

DG XI - Environment
European Commission Directorate General XI
Environment, Nuclear Safety and Civil Protection http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/dg11/dg11home.html

DGXIII of the European Commission
EU programmes, services and news
http://www.echo.lu/

Dutch Environment Ministry:
Tel: +31 70 339 3939
Fax: 31 70 339 3846
bibliotheek@ddy.cs.minvrom.nl
http://www.minvrom.nl

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Earth Council
created as a direct result of the Earth Summit
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in September 1992
http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/

EC Environment Council :
Steve Robinson
Chief Executive
Suzannah Lansdell
Tel: +44 171 881 7606
Fax: +44 171 730 9941
environmental.council@ukonline.co.uk
http://www.greenchannel.com/tec

Environment Agency of England and Wales
Tel: +44 1454 624 400.
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk

Environmental Treaties and Resources Indicators Project
database that integrates information about environmental treaties with national resource indicators.
http://sedac.ciesin.org/entri

Environmental Australia's Biodiversity Group
http://www.anca.gov.au

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency - USA)
http://www.epa.gov/

European Consultative Forum on the Environment and Sustainable Development
Tel: +32 2 299 2263
Fax: +32 2 299 0895
forum@dg11.cec.be
http://europa.eu.int/en/comm.html

European Environment Agency
Domino Jimenz-Beltran
Executive Director
Ernst R. Klatte
Communications Officer
eea@eea.eu.int
http://www.eea.eu.int/
http://www.eea.dk/

European IPPC Bureau
The Bureau has been established by the European Commission
in order to facilitate the technical exchange
of information on Best Available Techniques (BAT)
as required by Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control
http://eippcb.jrc.es/

European Partners for the Environment
Ray Van Ermen
Executive Director
83, avenue Mounier
1200 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 771 15 34
Fax: + 32 2 770 53 86

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French Environment Ministry
Tel: +33 1 42 19 20
http://www.environnement.gouv.fr

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German Advisory Council on Global Change
Tel: +49 471 4831 218
http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/WBGU

German Federal Environmental Agency
Umweltbundesamt
Bismarckplatz 1, 141 93, Berlin
Tel: +49 30 890 30
Fax: +49 30 890 322 85
http://www.umweltbundesamt.de

German Federal Ministry for the Environment
Bundesumweltministerium, Bonn
Tel: 49 228 3050
Fax: 49 305 3225
oea-1000@wp-gate.bmu.de
http://www.bmu.de

The Global Change Master Directory (NASA)
contact: gcmduso@gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/

US Global Change Research Information Office
User Service
2250 Pierce Road
University Center, MI 48710 USA
http://www.gcrio.org

Green Group in the European Parliament
Tel: +32 2 284 3925
http://www.axl.be/green

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Hong Kong Environment Protection Department :
281F Southern Centre,130 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Betty Chan
Senior Information Officer
Tel: +852-28351018
Fax: +852 2836 0600
ts@epd.gen.gov.hk
http://www.info.gov.hk/epd

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IEA (International Energy Agency)
http://www.iea.org

Icelandic Ministry for the Environment
Information on Icelandic environmental law and government
http://www.ismennt.is/opi/umh/english/

Instituto Nacional de Ecología
Mexican's government environmental policy agency.
http://www.ine.gob.mx/


Irish Department of the Environment:
Jimmy Farrelly
Secretary
press-office@environ.irlgov.ie
Tel: +353 1 679 3377
Fax: +353 1 8748 402

Irish Environmental Information Service:
Liam Dolan
Director
Tel: +353 1 679 3144
Fax: +353 1 679 5204
liam_dolan@environ.irlgov.ie
http://www.enfo.ie

Irish Environmental Protection Agency :
Directors:
Anne Butler
Deolan Byrne
Ian MacLean
Marie Sherwood
a.butler@epa.ie
d.byrne@epa.ie
i.maclean@epa.ie
General Enquiries:
info@epa.ie
Tel: +353 53 47120
Fax: +353 53 47119

Israeli Ministry of the Environment
Includes full text of environmental
laws and other publications on specific
environmental issues
http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/gov/environ1.html

Italian National Agency for Technology, Energy and the Environment
Research and development of technology
associated with energy and the environment from
the Italian Government
http://www.enea.it/

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NIPR home page
NIPR is the primary source for materials produced by the World Bank's Economics of Industrial Pollution Control Research Project.
http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA)
U.S. Department of Commerce
14th Street & Constitution Ave., NW - Room 6013
Washington, DC 20230
Phone: (202) 482-6090 Fax: (202) 482-3154
http://www.noaa.gov

New Zealand Ministry for the Environment
Information on sustainability, waste management
water quality and biodiversity from New Zealand Government
http://www.mfe.govt.nz/

Nordic Council
Tel: +45 33 96 02 00.
http://www.norden.org

Norwegian State Pollution Control Authority
Tel: +47 22 57 34 00.
http://www.sft.no/eindex.html

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OECD Environmental Action Programme
for Central and Eastern Europe

Task Force for the Implementation of the Environmental
Action Programme for Central and Eastern Europe
http://www.oecd.org/env/eap/

OECD Environment Directorate:
Robert Visser
Head of H& S Division
Bill Long
Director for Environmental Affairs
Tel: +33 1 45248200
Tel: +33 1 45249315 (Visser)
Fax: +33 1 45247876
ehscont@oecd.org (H& S Division)
http://www.oecd.org/env/



OECD Sustainable Developement Programme:
Information about OECD work on sustainable developement over the period 1998-2001
contact: Marco Mira d'Ercole
http://www.oecd.org/subject/sustdev

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President's Council on Sustainable Development
730 Jackson Place, NW
Washington, DC 20503
Tel: +1 202 408 5296
Fax: +1 202 408 6839
infopcsd@aol.com
http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcsd

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Scottish Environment Protection Agency
Consultation documents and other SEPA reports
are available in pdf format together with
press releases and information about SEPA's functions
http://www.sepa.org.uk/

South African Department of Economic Affairs, Environment and Tourism
Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Environment
Maria Mbengashe
Tel: +27 41 33 88 91
ezendalo@enepe.ecape.gov.za

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.environ.se

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UK Department of the Environment and Transport:
Tel: +44 171 276 0900
Fax: +44 171 276 5662
http://www.open.gov.uk/doe/doehome.htm

UK Environment Ministry
Tel: +44 171 890 3000.
http://www.open.gov.uk/doe/doehome.htm

UNDP :
Senior Advisor to the Administrator on Environment
For Info Contact: Rafael Asenjo
Executive Co-ordinator
New York, NY10017 USA
Tel: +1 212 906 5044
Fax: +1 212 906 6998/6690
rafael.asenjo@undp.org
http://www.undp.org

Joint UNEP Chemicals/WHO GEENET Web Site
Information for the following Programmes and Projects:
UNEP Chemicals (IRPTC), Global Environmental, Epidemiology Network (GEENET), Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR), Prior Informed Consent (PIC), Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), International Register on Biosafety (IRB).
http://irptc.unep.ch

UNEP-IETC Home Page
UNEP-IETC Homepage, the United Nations Environment Programme's World Wide Web site dealing with Environmentally Sound Technologies (ESTs). This site is located at the UNEP International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC) based in Japan.
http://www.unep.or.jp

UNEP Information Unit for Conventions (UNEP/IUC)
http://www.unep.ch/iuc/

(UNCSD) United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was created in December 1992 to ensure effective follow-up of UNCED; to monitor and report on implementation of the Earth Summit agreements at the local, national, regional and international levels
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body, UNCTAD is the principal organ of the United Nations General Assembly in the field of trade and development
http://www.unicc.org/unctad/

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
http://www.unccd.ch/

United Nations Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development (UNDPCSD)
http://www.un.org/dpcsd/

United Nations Development Programme
http://www3.undp.org/

United Nations Environment Programme :
Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific
Nay Htun
Assistant Administrator & Director
Tel: +1 212 9065800
Fax: +1 212 9065825
nay.htun@undp.org
http://www.unep.org/

United Nations Environment and Development UK Committee (UNED) :
Tom Bigg
Contact for Environmental Questions
Tel: +44 171 930 2931
Fax: +44 171 930 5893
una@mcr1.poptel.org.uk
http://oneworld.org/

(United Nations) UN/ECE Environment and Human Settlements Division
Information on intergovernmental aims to improve
the European environemnt from the United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe
http://www.unicc.org/unece/env/env_h.htm

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC
http://www.unfccc.de/

United Nations Industrial Development Organization
http://www.unido.org/

United Nations Official WebSite Locator for the UN System of Organizations
http://www.unsystem.org

United Nations System-Wide Sustainable Development Web Site
http://www.un.org/esa/agenda21/natlinfo/

U.S. Department of Energy
webmaster@apollo.osti.gov
http://www.doe.gov/

US Environmental Pollution and Control Agencies
US federal environmental departments
and research organisations
http://www.fedworld.gov/environ.htm

US Environment Protection Agency (EPA):
Carol Browner
Administrator
Fred Hanfen
Deputy Administrator
401 M Street, SW Washington, D.C. 20460 USA
Tel: +1 202 2604711
Fax: +1 202 40137664
brower.carol@epamail.epa.gov
hanfen.fred@epamail.epa.gov
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/index.html

US Global Change Research Program
300 D Street, SW, Suite 840
Washington, DC 20024, U.S.A.
http://www.usgcrp.gov/

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West Bank Ministry of Industry :
Atef Midani
DELTA focal point
POB 1629 Ramallah
The Palestine Authority
Tel: +972 2 998 7641/2
Fax: +972 2 998 7640

Western Australian Department of Environmental Protection:
Bryan Jenkins
Chief Executive Officer
Tel: +61 8 92227000
Fax: +61 62 07 21 55
dep_info@environ.wa.gov.au
http://www.environ.wa.gov.au

World Bank:
http://www.worldbank.org/

World Health Organization Headquarters' Major Programmes Page
http://www.who.ch/programmes/WHOProgrammes.html

World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
http://www.wmo.ch/

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