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Accion Ecologia
An environmental NGO that works to protect the rainforest, foster environmental justice and law. The website is only available in Spanish. Programs: Water and Energy Forests and Plantations Criminalization...
Canadian Environmental Law Association
One of 18 legal aid clinics in Ontario which offers community services in specialized areas. Funded by Legal Aid Ontario. Also undertakes additional educational and law reform projects funded by...
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
A non-profit research center that aims to use "the law to protect the environment, promote human health, and ensure a just and sustainable society." Consequently, it conducts "legal research and...
Center for Oceans Law and Policy
Is a “nonpartisan, nonprofit interdisciplinary center for advanced scholarship and education.” It “supports research, education, and discussion on legal and public policy issues relating to the oceans.” The center promotes...
ClientEarth UK
ClientEarth UK (2007; London; ~140 staff, 35 associates; clientearth.org) An environmental law firm that sues governments and industries to protect forests and vulnerable species. Works with people and NGOs on...
Earth Justice
It is is a non-profit public interest organization and environmental law firm defending the right to a healthy environment. It is "dedicated to litigating environmental issues" to accomplish its goal...
Environmental Integrity Project
Advocates for effective enforcement of environmental laws and staffed by former EPA enforcement attorneys, public interest lawyers, analysts, investigators, and community organizers. They act as a "watchdog " to help...
Environmental Law Institute
An institute that is working towards “a healthy environment, prosperous economies, and vibrant communities founded on the rule of law.” They work in partnership with governments, non-governmental and community groups,...
Global Witness
Global Witness (1993; London/Washington/Brussels; 89 staff; globalwitness.org) It “works to expose the corrupt exploitation of natural resources and international trade systems, to drive campaigns that end impunity, resource-linked conflict, and...
Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development
A non-profit committed to strengthening environmental law and addressing short-lived climate pollutants. Seeks “to promote just and sustainable societies and to protect the environment by advancing the understanding, development, and...
Environmental Law, Governance and Sustainability, Pollution, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Society
International Center for Comparative Environmental Law (CIDCE)
An international nongovernmental organization "created following the Center for Compared Law Studies in Strasbourg. It aims to to bring together "environmental lawyers from all around the world, to help the...
International Environment Law Research Centre (IELRC)
International Environment Law Research Centre(1995; Geneva; 14 staff; ielrc.org) An independent, non-profit research organization working to provide "a unique forum for collaborative research between researchers in the North and South."...
International Union for Conservation of Nature
“The world’s oldest and largest global environmental organization,” and “the largest professional global conservation network,” with 1300+ member organizations (governments and NGOs), and almost 11,000 voluntary scientists and experts, grouped...
Big Green Organizations, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Standards, Ecosystem Collapse, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection, Environmental Risk Analysis, Information Portals, Risk of Species Extinction, Threatened Species, Wildlife Conservation
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (1970; Washington; 134 staff; lcvef.org) It "works to turn environmental values into national, state, and local priorities." It works in collaboration with its state...
Legal Planet
Legal Planet (N/A; Berkeley, CA; 31 contributors; legal-planet.org) An independent, academic law and policy blog that is a collaboration between faculty at UC Berkeley School of Law and UCLA School...
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators
Seeks to empower environmentally progressive state-lawmakers. Founded by then-Maryland Delegate Leon Billings, who had previously been the chief U.S. Senate staffer responsible for writing the Clean Water Act and the...
Conservation, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Health, Environmental Law, Environmental Legislators
Our Children’s Trust
Is a non-profit organization that "elevates the voice of youth and leads the federal, state, local, and international campaign to secure the legal right to a healthy atmosphere and stable...
Pacific Centre for Environmental Law and Litigation
Pacific Centre for Environmental Law and Litigation ([ND], Victoria BC; 2 staff, 9 associates; pacificcell.ca) A non-profit society that believes that “much more can and should be done to inspire,...
Project for the Application of Law for Fauna
PALF is the "result of the acknowledgment" of the need for a paradigm shift in conservation, believing that a "closer follow up of judicial procedures, from the investigations and operations,...
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
PEER assists federal, state and local public employees in legally "fighting for the ethical management of our natural resources, strong environmental laws, and policies, and accountability and transparency in government...