Europe (General)

Arctic Environmental Atlas
United Nations Environment Programme/GRID-Arendal
An interactive map presenting environmental information on the Arctic region. This map includes everything north of 50° north of the equator. Its themes concentrate on issues of biodiversity and conservation, and include Topography, Land Cover, Permafrost, Population Density, Human Impact & Wilderness. Featured are Protected areas, Ramsar areas, Glaciers Polar ice, Pack ice, Lakes, Rivers, Drainage Basins, and WWF Global 200 ecoregions. Also covered are ecological footprint, land-based pollution, and climate change. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) maintains and updates the Protected area and Ramsar area databases. In English.
http://maps.grida.no/arctic

Bank Information Center, The (Washington, D.C.)
The Bank Information Center (BIC) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization that provides information and strategic support to NGOs and social movements throughout the world on the projects, policies and practices of the World Bank and other Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). BIC advocates for greater transparency, accountability and citizen participation at the MDBs. Information on MDBs Projects and Policies is organized by the following regions: Africa, Asia, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. In English, with Toolkits español, français and dalam bahasa Indonesia.
http://www.bicusa.org/

Coalition Clean Baltic (Sweden)
Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB) is a politically independent, non-profit association that unites 27 member organizations from Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. The main goal of CCB is to promote the protection and improvement of the Baltic Sea environment and natural resources. CCB participates as a joint lobby organization for the member organizations towards intergovern-mental Baltic Sea organizations such as the HELCOM (Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission) and the International Baltic Sea Fisheries Commission (IBSFC), the BALTIC 21-process as well as towards the European Union. CCB as an organization has decided to focus on three priority areas:

Reduction of the harmful nutrient load to the Baltic Sea,
Preventions of installations and activities harmful to the Baltic Sea Environment, and
Development of sustainable Baltic Sea Fisheries.

Includes map of Baltic Sea Region Hot Spots. In English.
http://www.ccb.se

Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties
Cyberlaw Research Unit, Centre For Criminal Justice Studies
University of Leeds (UK)
This non profit civil liberties organization tracks developments in Internet law, security and privacy. The site includes the text of the Draft Convention on Cyber-crime prepared by Committee of Experts on Crime in Cyber-Space (PC-CY), for submission to the European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC) at its 50th plenary session (18 - 22 June 2001) and the Committee of Ministers for adoption; Statewatch Observatory on Surveillance in Europe; and related UK and European cyber-plans, programmes and news. In English.
http://www.cyber-rights.org/

Ecotrain Europe
Information on sustainable living and environmental education. In Danish.
http://www.fps.dk/ecotrain

Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference (2003)
UN Economic Commission for Europe
The fifth Ministerial Conference .Environment for Europe. (EfE) concluded on 23 May 2003, in Kiev, Ukraine, with the adoption of the Ministerial Declaration, which underlined the importance of the EfE process as a tool to promote environmental protection and sustainable development in the region. During the Conference, three Protocols to Conventions of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe were adopted and opened for signature. Thirty-five countries and the European Community signed the new Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the UNECE Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention); Twenty-two countries signed the new Protocol on Civil Liability and Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters to the UNECE Conventions on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents and on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Waters and International Lakes; and Thirty-six countries and the European Community signed the new Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers to the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention). The Ministers and Heads of delegation also endorsed the Guidelines for Strengthening Compliance with and Implementation of MEAs in the UNECE region. Governments of all seven countries of the Carpathian region adopted a Convention on Environment Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians, which was opened for signature on 22 May and signed by Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia and Ukraine. With proceedings, source documents and links to the above-mentioned legal instruments. In English, French and Russian.
http://www.unece.org/env/wgso/index_kyivconf.htm

European Commission Homepage, The
http://europa.eu.int/comm/index_en.htm

European Environment Agency
http://www.eea.eu.int/
http://www.eea.dk/

European Environmental Bureau
EEB's objectives are:

to bring together environmental non-governmental organizations in the member states in order to strengthen their impact on the environmental policy and of projects of the European Union;
to promote an equitable and sustainable life style;
to promote the protection and conservation of the environment, and the restoration and the better use of human resources;
to promote that the external policies of the European Union contribute
to the sustainable development in other regions and globally;
to make all necessary information available to members and other organizations likely to assist in the realization of these aims and organize consultations and joint actions.

http://www.eeb.org

European Tropical Forests Research Network
Directory of European Institutions involved in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Forest Research. The list contains over 500 entries.
http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/network/dir.html

EU Mine Action
http://eu-mine-actions.jrc.cec.eu.int/

Information System for Planning an Environment (ISPU)
Bavarian State Ministry for State Development and Environmental Affairs
Umweltobjektkatalog UOK (Catalogue of environmental and planning documents). Collection with about 60,000 entries such as map-catalogues, pictures of protected areas, geological objects, and regional planning data. In German.
http://www.uok.bayern.de

International Society for Environmental Protection

DANUBIS - Danube Information System, includes
CAPE (Co-ordinated Action for Pan-European Transport and Environment Telematics Implementation Support
DETERMINE (Environmental and Related Transport Telematic Results: Innovative Services And Solutions For The Citizen)
ENWAP Home Page
CEDAR
Terminological Databases
The complete Austrian National Environmental Plan
Umweltdatenkatalog Österreich
Environmental Data Catalogue Austria

http://pan.cedar.univie.ac.at/

Kyiv/Kiev 2002 Environment for Europe
Tacis Environmental Awareness Raising Programme (Ukraine)
This web-site was created to collect information on the Environment for Europe process. Information on the history of Environment for Europe, participants of the process, challenges and successes of the process, and preparations for the Fifth Ministerial Conference. In Russian and English.
http://www.kiev2002.org/

Russian Ecological Federal Information Agency (REFIA)
This site contains official information on the state of natural resources and environment in Russia. Information is grouped into the following media: air, water, mineral resources, forests, terrestrial biodiversity, water biodiversity, recreational resources, protected areas, state of environment. Under each main heading the information is grouped into the following sections: a state management system, general review, periodicals, legislation and documents. Each following level contains indepth of information regarding each specific subject. Also contained is a link to the "Spaseniye" (Salvation) electronic newsletter (in Russian only). In English and Russian.
http://www.refia.ru

Statewatch
Statewatch monitors the state and civil liberties in the European Union. The Statewatch searchable database contains over 25,000 entries and reports on the state, civil liberties and justice and home affairs in the UK and the European Union. Includes EU Commission proposal for a regulation on public access to documents and analyses of EU databases, use and exchange of data and surveillance.
http://www.statewatch.org

Stockholm Environmental Water Institute (SIWI)
An umbrella organization for global water-related scientific activities initiated in Stockholm.
http://www.siwi.org/menu/menu.html

TRUSTNET
TRUSTNET Secretariat (Paris)
TRUSTNET is a pluralistic and interdisciplinary European network involved in the field of Risk Governance. The objective of TRUSTNET is to contribute to the quality of the decision-making processes within the governance of hazardous activities in Europe. TRUSTNET is assessing the emerging concepts and experiences (precautionary principle, pluralistic expertise, decentralisation of risk management,?) as well as the innovative institutional arrangements (agencies, stakeholder participation, citizen conferences,?) that may enhance the quality, the legitimacy and the practicability of the decision-making processes on risk. The TRUSTNET steering committee involves representatives of major organisations dealing with risk governance, among them European national regulatory bodies and representatives of the European Commission. The site contains cases studies that address potential risks from magnetic fields, nuclear power, pharmaceuticals, and riverine flooding, Agenda 21 implementation, chemical facility siting and management, the Dunkerque Conurbation, GMO Maize, among other topics. With a Glossary of Risk Goverance topics. In English.
http://www.trustnetgovernance.com/

WHO Regional Office for Europe
http://www.who.dk