The Security & Sustainability Guide
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Organization Overviews
Notable Organizations
Notable Reports
Sustainability Leaders
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There are thousands of guides to countries and cities, as well as flora and fauna. It is time for some guide to the rapidly growing number of security and sustainability organizations. But this is no easy matter, because human organizations are in flux, intertwined, and more difficult to classify.
Main Categories
Access to these hundreds of organizations is provided here in several ways:
- A dashboard of 6 generic categories and 20 sub-categories on the Generic Categories Dashboard (see above).
- A Major Categories Index covering 60 domains with 5 or more listings.
- A Subject Index of 1400+ entries.
- An Organization Index of 2,000+ organizations.
- An index to 150+ Information Portals for additional information on security and/or sustainability.
- A keyword search function.
Essays & Reviews
Report on Global Reports, 2020-2021: The Whale and the Minnows
As the COVID-19 pandemic recedes in some countries, while spreading in others, vaccines are becoming available, although distribution is still problematic in many locations. Reports on COVID itself (see COVID-19 – What Experts Expect & Propose) have waned,...
The Arctic – A Quick Look at Leading Organizations
The Arctic is more affected by global warming than any other place on earth. Certain climate issues prevalent today are directly linked to the Arctic environment such as the rise of temperatures, melting ice, and ocean acidification to name a few. This is especially...
Water Scarcity: A Quick Look at Leading Organizations
Water security has been a major concern for decades. This is due to a number of reasons including pollution, depleted aquifers, and climate change, which leads to more droughts, melting glaciers, and floods that contaminate existing water sources. As a result, the UN...
Notable Organizations
All of the organizations described in the S&S Guide are engaged in important and interesting activities related to security and/or sustainability. But some appear more important or interesting than others. The Guide tries to identify centers of expertise and leading-edge thought and action in all areas of security and sustainability. This is no easy matter, and opinions will surely differ as to which organizations deserve highlighting. Still, as an initial introduction to the organizations covered in the Guide, most of the following selections should be of interest to most users. Emphasis has been given to those organizations emphasizing security and sustainability, and/or taking a broad systems approach to global concerns.
- Abolition 2000
- Alliance to Save Energy
- American Security Project
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
- BlueGreen Alliance
- C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
- Cascade Institute
- Center for Climate and Security
- Chicago Council on Global Affairs
- Clean Cooking Alliance
- Clean Energy Ministerial
- Client Earth
- Climate Impact Lab
- Club of Rome
- Conference Board of Canada
- Council on Energy, Environment and Water
- Desert Research Institute
- Drawdown Project
- Earth Charter Initiative
- Earth Institute
- Earth System Governance Project
- Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
- German Advisory Council on Global Change
- German Development Institute
- Global Challenges Foundation
- Global Compact Cities Programme
- Global Compact Cities Programme
- Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere
- Global Governance Institute
- Global Green Growth Institute
- Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
- Great Transition Initiative
- Green Cross International
- Greenpeace International
- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
- Institute for Future Initiatives
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- International Association for the Study of the Commons
- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
- International Energy Agency / IEA
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
- International Institute for Strategic Studies
- International Institute for Sustainable Development
- International Resource Panel
- International Union for Conservation of Nature
- Joint Research Centre
- Millennium Project, The
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Oxford Research Group
- Pacific Institute
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- Rocky Mountain Institute
- Small Arms Survey
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
- Stockholm Resilience Centre
- Sustainability Transitions Research Network
- Sustainable Accounting Standards Board
- Transparency International
- UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
- UNEP Finance Initiative
- UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
- US Global Change Research Program
- Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services
- Wilson Center
- World Bank
- World Economic Forum
- Worldwatch Institute
- World Wildlife Fund
Three Important Messages
Remarkable Growth
The remarkable growth of Security and Sustainability organizations, with a median start-up date of 2002, is greatly under-appreciated by media and researchers; this is especially true for organizations supporting green business as a new type of capitalism.
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Alliances, Coalitions & Networks
Formation of alliances, coalitions, consortia, and networks to overcome fragmented efforts is important; the Guide identifies nearly a hundred such groups, and more are probably desirable.
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Security + Sustainability
A small but growing group of organizations is linking both security and sustainability concerns realizing that we cannot have security without sustainability and vice versa.
Why Security & Sustainability? »
Our goal is to highlight insights from important contributions to the public body of knowledge on the condition of our planet and humanity.