ICES will relate directly or indirectly to an extended network of organizations that have a good degree of overlap with its own mission:
Mission Statement: to provide business leadership as a catalyst for change toward sustainable development, and to support the business license to operate, innovate and grow in a world increasingly shaped by sustainable development issues.
http://www.wbcsd.org
ISO is the world's largest developer and publisher of International Standards. An International Standard is the result of an agreement between the member bodies of ISO. It may be used as such, or may be implemented through incorporation in national standards of different countries. ISO launches the development of new standards in response to sectors and stakeholders that express a clearly established need for them. Because ISO standards are voluntary agreements, they need to be based on a solid consensus of international expert opinion. For a document to be accepted as an ISO International Standard, it must be approved by at least two-thirds of the ISO national members that participated in its development and not be disapproved by more than a quarter of all ISO members who vote on it.
http://www.iso.org/iso/home.html
Established in 1964, UNCTAD promotes the development-friendly integration of developing countries into the world economy. UNCTAD has progressively evolved into an authoritative knowledge-based institution whose work aims to help shape current policy debates and thinking on development, with a particular focus on ensuring that domestic policies and international action are mutually supportive in bringing about sustainable development.
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=1530&lang=1
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
http://www.who.int/about/en/
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a strategic framework, adopted by United Nations Member States in 2000, aiming to guide and coordinate the efforts of a wide range of partners to achieve substantive reduction in disaster losses and build resilient nations and communities as an essential condition for sustainable development. Additional information is available at: http://www.preventionweb.net/english/index.php
http://www.unisdr.org/#
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country. It also has a mandate to help stateless people.
http://www.unhcr.org
OCHA is the part of the United Nations Secretariat responsible for bringing together humanitarian actors to ensure a coherent response to emergencies. OCHA also ensures there is a framework within which each actor can contribute to the overall response effort.
http://www.unocha.org
The ICRC has a legal mandate from the international community. That mandate has two sources: the 1949 Geneva Conventions, which task the ICRC with visiting prisoners, organizing relief operations, re-uniting separated families and similar humanitarian activities during armed conflicts; the Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (Movement), which encourage it to undertake similar work in situations of internal violence, where the Geneva Conventions do not apply. The Geneva Conventions are binding instruments of international law, applicable worldwide. The Statutes of the Movement are adopted at the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, which takes place every four years, and at which States that are party to the Geneva Conventions take part, thereby conferring a quasi-legal or “soft law” status on the Statutes.
http://www.icrc.org/eng
Human actions lie at the heart of current global environmental change. Societies define the boundaries and character of their environments, while affecting and reacting to their environment with only a limited and biased understanding of it. To understand and respond effectively to these current changes requires major inputs from the social sciences - the perspective of human behaviour and actions.
http://www.ihdp.unu.edu/
The mission of GCI is to respond to the combined challenges of security, poverty and environmental degradation to ensure a sustainable and secure future.
http://www.gcint.org/
We are a delivery-focused network of global cities that, in partnership with companies, academia and other organizations, is developing common approaches and solutions to help cities build a sustainable future.
http://cityprotocol.org/who.html
A network representing 82 European non-governmental organisations (NGOs) active in humanitarian aid worldwide. VOICE is the main NGO interlocutor with the European Union on emergency aid, relief, rehabilitation and disaster risk reduction. As a European network, it represents and promotes the values and specificities of humanitarian NGOs, in collaboration with other humanitarian actors.
http://www.ngovoice.org/documents/voice%20DRR%20n1%20BD.pdf
To provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
http://www.unep.org/
The mission of EPA is to protect human health and the environment.
http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/whatwedo.html
IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges. It supports scientific research, manages field projects all over the world and brings governments, non-government organizations, United Nations agencies, companies and local communities together to develop and implement policy, laws and best practice. IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental network - a democratic membership union with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and almost 11,000 volunteer scientists in more than 160 countries. IUCN’s work is supported by more than 1,000 professional staff in 60 offices and hundreds of partners in public, NGO and private sectors around the world. The Union’s headquarters are located in Gland, near Geneva, Switzerland.
http://www.iucn.org/
The Conservation Council of Nations is building the world's strongest network of policymakers, corporations, and NGOs to promote the efficient and beneficial use of natural resources and effective transnational conservation solutions, including through its Natural Resource Wealth Management™ program and initiatives.
http://www.councilofnations.org/
The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.
http://www.nature.org/
http://blog.nature.org/
For more than 45 years, WWF has been protecting the future of nature. The world’s leading conservation organization, WWF works in 100 countries and is supported by 1.2 million members in the United States and close to 5 million globally. WWF's unique way of working combines global reach with a foundation in science, involves action at every level from local to global, and ensures the delivery of innovative solutions that meet the needs of both people and nature.
http://www.worldwildlife.org/home-full.html
In the same spirit that inspired Stanford’s role in Silicon Valley’s high-tech revolution, the Woods Institute is pioneering innovative approaches to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st century – from climate change to sustainable food supplies to ocean conservation.
http://woods.stanford.edu/woods/about.html
The Institute’s mission is to promote just and sustainable societies and to protect the environment by advancing the understanding, development and implementation of effective, accountable and democratic systems of governance for sustainable development.
http://www.igsd.org/index.php
ProAct Network helps vulnerable communities improve resilience to disasters, climate change, and humanitarian crises through sustainable environmental management.
http://proactnetwork.org/proactwebsite/
The National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) of Costa Rica is a private research and biodiversity management center, established in 1989 to support all efforts made to gather knowledge on the country’s biological diversity and promote its sustainable use. The institute works under the premise that the best way to conserve biodiversity is to study it, value it, and utilize the opportunities it offers to improve the quality of life of human beings.
http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/que-es-inbio.html
The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) is an overarching and integrated network designed to serve ecosystem research in Australia. It builds on significant past investments by scientists and governments to understand Australian ecosystems. It does this by focussing on collating, calibrating, validating and standardising existing data sets.
http://www.tern.org.au/About-Tern-pg17674.html
The International Institute for Sustainable Development is a Canadian-based, international public policy research institute for sustainable development.
http://www.iisd.org/
The Foundation recognizes that environmental issues are inherently interconnected, and it marshals staff and financial resources across its programs to achieve success
http://bullitt.org/who-we-are
The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) was established to address the greatest challenge of 21st-century science -- understanding biological complexity.
http://www.systemsbiology.org/
To reduce poverty and hunger, improve human health and nutrition, and enhance ecosystem resilience through high-quality international agricultural research, partnership and leadership.
http://www.cgiar.org/
CCAFS seeks to overcome the threats to agriculture and food security in a changing climate, exploring new ways of helping vulnerable rural communities adjust to global changes in climate
http://ccafs.cgiar.org/
The Great Barrier Reef Foundation is an Australian non-for-profit organisation with links to Australian business and philanthropy and the national coral reef research and management agencies. It provides an independent channel for private investment from both business and philanthropic sources, working with its partners to develop and fund the highest priority research projects on the Reef. The Foundation's mission is to raise and provide funding to support research that contributes to the environmental protection, enhancement, preservation and conservation of tropical reefs (especially the Great Barrier Reef) and adjoining coral coasts, for the benefit of the world community
http://www.barrierreef.org/
Part of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), the International Livestock Research Institute works with partners worldwide to help poor people keep their farm animals alive and productive, increase and sustain their livestock and farm productivity and find profitable markets for their animal products.
http://www.ilri.org/
Bioversity undertakes, encourages and supports research aimed at enhancing the sustainable use and conservation of agricultural biodiversity to the world's most vulnerable communities
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/about_us.html
Twenty-six research sites constitute the LTER Network at present. The Network includes a wide range of ecosystem types spanning broad ranges of environmental conditions and human domination of the landscape. The geographic distribution of sites ranges from Alaska to Antarctica and from the Caribbean to French Polynesia and includes agricultural lands, alpine tundra, barrier islands, coastal lagoons, cold and hot deserts, coral reefs, estuaries, forests, freshwater wetlands, grasslands, kelp forests, lakes, open ocean, savannas, streams, and urban landscapes.
http://www.lternet.edu/overview/
http://www.lternet.edu/coreareas/
http://intranet2.lternet.edu/sites/intranet2.lternet.edu/files/documents/LTER%20History/Planning%20Documents/LTER_SIP_Dec_05_2010.pdf
Our Purpose is to foster interdisciplinary approaches for understanding global change at all scales using the tools of both the social and bio-physical sciences.
http://www.globalchange.msu.edu/
Earth Economics provides robust, science-based, ecologically sound economic analysis, policy recommendations and tools to positively transform regional, national and international economics, and asset accounting systems.
http://eartheconomics.org/Page150.aspx
http://eartheconomics.org/FileLibrary/file/Reports/Puget%20Sound%20and%20Watersheds/Earth%20Economics%20Puget%20Sound%20Summary%20Report.pdf
http://www.esvaluation.org/
Stockholm Resilience Centre advances research on the governance of social-ecological systems with a special emphasis on resilience - the ability to deal with change and continue to develop.
http://www.stockholmresilience.org/aboutus.4.aeea46911a3127427980003326.html
Our research and expert analysis help policy makers and practitioners shape effective policy, improve the management of tropical forests and address the needs and perspectives of people who depend on forests for their livelihoods.
http://www.cifor.org/
Wetlands International is the only global not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation and restoration of wetlands. We are deeply concerned about the loss and deterioration of wetlands such as lakes, marshes and rivers. Our vision is a world where wetlands are treasured and nurtured for their beauty, the life they support and the resources they provide.
http://www.wetlands.org/Home/tabid/37/Default.aspx
Societies require a broad knowledge of the global water system with regard to achieving sustainability, reducing poverty or maintaining biodiversity and environmental flows.
http://www.gwsp.org/
The Centre of Excellence cements Australia’s leading contribution to coral reef sciences, and fosters stronger collaborative links between the major partners and 24 other leading institutions in nine countries.
http://www.coralcoe.org.au/about-us
The International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance (IRHA) was created in Geneva in November 2002 following recommendations formulated during the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg two months earlier. The mandate called for federation and unification of the disparate rainwater harvesting (RWH) movement around the world, to promote rainwater as a valuable water resource and to build on achievements in this field for the fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals
http://www.irha-h2o.org/?page=Home
To generate real-time data for monitoring long term trends in tropical biodiversity through a global network of field stations, providing an early warning system on the status of biodiversity to effectivvely guide conservation action.
http://www.teamnetwork.org/en/
http://vimeo.com/55346388
To establish a world class research infrastructure to characterise the structure and evolution of the Australian continent in a global context from surface to core in space and time.
http://www.auscope.org.au/content.php/category/id/2?PHPSESSID=372ffa2aa81fe48c90260f982f94cbc1
The Alberta Water Research Institute was established in the spring 2007 to coordinate world class and leading edge research to support Alberta’s provincial water strategy, Water for Life: A Strategy for Sustainability.
http://www.waterinstitute.ca/about_awri.htm
The OTRC’s mission is to provide technology, expertise, and services needed for the development of drilling, production, and transportation systems that enable the safe and economically viable exploitation of hydrocarbon resources in deep and ultra-deep water.
http://otrc.tamu.edu/
The Global Partnership for Oceans is a growing alliance of governments, international organizations, civil society groups, and private sector interests that will mobilize knowledge and financial resources to address threats to ocean health, resilience and productivity.
http://www.globalpartnershipforoceans.org/
http://www.willisresearchnetwork.com/default.aspx
The GIScCE will employ the capabilities of geographic information science, namely remote sensing, geographic information systems, digital mapping, and geostatistics, to document and understand the changing earth.
http://globalmonitoring.sdstate.edu/index.php
IRDR is a decade-long integrated research programme co-sponsored by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN-ISDR). It is a global, multi-disciplinary approach to dealing with the challenges brought by natural disasters, mitigating their impacts, and improving related policy-making mechanisms
http://www.irdrinternational.org/about.php
The Global Adaptation Institute is a non-profit environmental organization guided by a vision of building resilience against climate change and other global forces as a key component to sustainable development. Our mission is to enhance the world’s understanding of the urgency for adaptation to climate change and other global forces and the support needed through private and public investments for developing countries.
http://globalai.org/content/about-us
http://www.planetaryskin.org/
CERFACS (Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique) is a research organization that aims to develop advanced methods for the numerical simulation and the algorithmic solution of large scientific and technological problems of interest for research as well as industry, and that requires access to the most powerful computers presently available.
http://www.cerfacs.fr/
http://pantar.cerfacs.fr/3-26319-High-resolution-numerical-climate-modelling.php
The common goal of humankind is to realize a society in which every person can enjoy a comfortable life. Science and technology can lead the way to such a society. The mission entrusted to AIST and its staff, as members of the scientific community, is to develop science and technology that complements society and the environment. We, the staff members of AIST, recognize our mission and responsibility to society. We work towards the realization of such a society through research and development in industrial science and technology.
http://www.aist.go.jp/index_en.html
http://www.geogrid.org/en/index.html
To provide Shanghai as well as the whole country with technological and decision-making support needed for the new economic growth patterns, and to deliver economic and social benefits of technological achievements by leveraging social resources for technology incubation.
http://english.sari.cas.cn/
Calit2 represents a new mechanism to address large-scale societal issues by bringing together multidisciplinary teams of the best minds (both on and beyond UC campuses) in a way that had been impossible earlier.
http://www.calit2.net/about/index.php
Founded in 1985, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) enables international science and engineering discoveries through advances in computational science and data-intensive, high-performance computing.
http://www.sdsc.edu/about/About.html
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.
http://www.csiro.au/
UNC Asheville's NEMAC helps people understand the relevance and importance of complex issues such as climate change, forest health, hazard mitigation, competitive land use, and the wise use of our energy and water resources.
http://nemac.unca.edu/community-engagement-and-decision-support
http://nemac.unca.edu/renci-unc-asheville-engagement-site-grove-arcade
Department of Earth Science and Engineering
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/earthscienceandengineering/research/energyenvmodmin
Science research and space exploration involve high stakes games that push the boundaries of culture, policy, commerce, and even philanthropy.
http://www.spacebridges.com/
Our aim is to explore the origin and evolution of planetary systems from a dynamic perspective by integrating high-precision isotope studies of meteorites with stellar evolution theory, astrophysical models and astronomical observations. We hope to understand the circumstances that allowed for the formation of the terrestrial planets in our solar system, including the preservation of water worlds like Earth, where life has been thriving for nearly 4 billion years.
http://starplan.dk/about
The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research is a collaborative centre based in Perth, Western Australia. Already achieving research excellence in astronomical science and engineering, ICRAR has grown steadily since its launch in September 2009.
http://www.icrar.org/
The Virtual Planet Laboratory (VPL) is a team of scientists who are building computer simulated Earth-sized planets to discover the likely range of planetary environments for planets around other stars.
http://depts.washington.edu/naivpl/content/about-us-0
How does life begin and evolve, does life exist elsewhere in the universe, and what is the future of life on Earth and beyond?
http://www.pik-potsdam.de/PLACES/
To create a physics-based numerical simulation model that describes the space environment from the Sun to the Earth.
http://www.bu.edu/cism/index.html
Borexino is an international experiment, located deep underground in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of Italy. The experiment is dedicated to the observation of low-energy solar neutrinos.
http://borex.lngs.infn.it/
http://wwwphy.princeton.edu/borexino/index.html
Science software is mostly not published. We’re changing that by working with scientists, funding bodies, and agencies: all the software must be available for the public to see.
http://climatecode.org/
Confronting The Challenges Of Global Climate Change
http://www.envisionation.co.uk/
The Asia Institute is the first truly pan-Asian think tank. A research institution that addresses global issues with a focus on Asia, the Asia Institute is committed to presenting a balanced perspective that takes into account the concerns of the entire region. The Asia Institute provides an objective space wherein a significant discussion on current trends in technology, international relations, the economy and the environment can be carried out.
http://www.asia-institute.org/
The Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) is an internationally recognized organization in the field of cultural anthropology. HRAF's mission is to encourage and facilitate the cross-cultural study of human culture, society, and behavior in the past and present. Founded in 1949 at Yale University, HRAF is a financially autonomous research agency of Yale.
http://www.yale.edu/hraf/