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An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces.

In this sense the environment may refer to the biophysical environment or the natural environment. The organization may be a charity, a trust, a non-governmental organization, a governmental organization or an intergovernmental organization. Environmental organizations can be global, national, regional or local. Some environmental issues that environmental organizations focus on include pollution, plastic pollution, waste, resource depletion, human overpopulation and climate change.

Intergovernmental organizations

Global organizations

Governmental agencies

Many states have agencies devoted to monitoring and protecting the environment:

International non-governmental organizations

These organizations are involved in environmental management, lobbying, advocacy, and/or conservation efforts:

International

Continental

National non-governmental organizations

These organizations are involved in environmental management, lobbying, advocacy, and/or conservation efforts at the national level:

Albania

Australia

Austria

Bangladesh

Belgium

Bolivia

Cambodia

Canada

Cape Verde

China

Colombia

Costa Rica

Croatia

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Ethiopia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hong Kong

India

Indonesia

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Kenya

Korea

North Macedonia

Madagascar

Malta

Nepal

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

Pakistan

Palestine

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Puerto Rico

Sierra Leone

  • ENFORAC (Environmental Forum for Action)

South Africa

Spain


Switzerland

Tanzania

Uganda

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

United States

See also

References

  1. ^ "China Greentech Initiative". Beijing Foreign Enterprise Human Resources Service Co, Ltd. Retrieved 9 May 2013.

Further reading

  • Johnson, Erik W.; Scott Frickel (2011). "Ecological Threat and the Founding of U.S. National Environmental Movement Organizations, 1962–1998". Social Problems. 58 (Aug. 2011) (3): 305–29. doi: 10.1525/sp.2011.58.3.305. This study examines the role of ecological threat in shaping the U.S. environmental movement. … Declines in wildlife populations are associated with the foundings of wildlife and wilderness protection organizations while increases in air pollution are associated with the foundings of organizations focused on ecosystem well-being and public health.