Zayed Sustainability Prize
It recognises and rewards small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), nonprofit organisations (NPOs), and global high schools with impactful, innovative, and inspiring sustainable solutions.The $3 million annual global award is honoring...
Young ISES
Alliances | Coalitions | Networks, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Youth, Youth Groups, Youth Leadership
It's for youth who are working on solar and other renewable energy forms worldwide; providing them with the opportunity to connect to peers and to experienced ISES members. It's meetings...
Young Evangelicals for Climate Action
Climate Action, Climate Action Groups, Climate Change Activism, Religious Groups, Youth, Youth Groups
It works to mobilize others like themselves to action on climate change, and to influence and hold accountable senior Evangelical leaders. Programs: College Fellows Community Fellows Climate Advocates Publications: Videos...
YK Center
Green Finance, Green Investment, Impact Investment, Market Solutions, Responsible Investment, Sustainable Development Goals
It incubates innovative initiatives that accelerate the achievement of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. It's focus is on market solutions through impact investments, green finance and education. Publications: Video...
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
Is focus is climate change. It conducts scientific studies on public opinion and behavior; informs the decision-making of governments, media, companies, and advocates; educates the public; and helps build public...
Yale Environment 360
It offers opinions, analysis, reporting, and debate on global environmental issues. It belongs to the Yale University School of Forestry and Environment, and it's contributors are scientists, journalists, environmentalists, academics,...
Xenergy
It's working on "the next generation of carbon-free energy by reinventing nuclear power." To do so, it "manufactures fuel that seals uranium particles in a protective coating, which makes meltdown...
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy
A German research institute that aims to design the transitions to a sustainable society, by means of a transdisciplinary approach that encourages systems understanding. Research focuses on transition processes, with...
World Wind Energy Association
An international organization for the worldwide promotion of wind energy. It works to provide a platform for the communication of all wind energy actors worldwide, advise and influence national governments...
World Wildlife Fund
It's one of the “world’s leading conservation organizations,” best known for its panda logo. Their mission is to “conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of...
World Trade Organization
The only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. WTO agreements are negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in...
World Sustainable Development Forum
A not-for-profit organization acting as a global initiative "to promote and mobilize global action for effective implementation of both the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals...
World Resources Institute
“Works closely with leaders to turn big ideas into action to sustain a healthy environment—the foundation of economic opportunity and human well-being.” Seeks to move human society to live in...
World Rainforest Movement
Activist Organizations, Agroforestry, Biodiversity Loss, Deforestation-Free Economy, Forest Protection, Rainforests
International initiative that supports forest-dependent peoples, indigenous, peasants and other communities in the global South. WRM is part of a global movement for social and environmental justice and respect for...
World Meteorological Organization
WMO is a specialized agency of the United Nations dedicated to fostering international cooperation and coordination on the state and behavior of the Earth’s atmosphere, its interaction with the land...
World Institute of Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
It is the first research center of the United Nations University. Today, it provides "a range of services from policy advice to governments as well as freely available original research...
World Information Service on Energy (WISE)
This group of activists disseminates information on nuclear power and renewables, opposes nuclear energy as a sustainable solution, publishes Nuclear Monitor newsletter 20x/year. Joined with US-based Nuclear Information and Resource...
World Health Organization (WHO)
Major UN agency concerned with disease and public health promotion; WHO operates 150 country offices in six different regions, researching and working on communicable diseases, noncommunicable diseases, environmental health, lifestyles,...
World Green Building Council
WGBC is based in two main offices: London, UK, and Toronto, Canada. Buildings and construction account for 39% of energy-related CO2 emissions. Goals: Limit global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius...
World Future Council
The World Future Council was formed to "speak on behalf of policy solutions that serve the interests of future generations", focusing on identifying and spreading effective, future-just policy solutions. It...