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environmental A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scal ...

research institute A research institute, research centre, research center or research organization, is an establishment founded for doing research. Research institutes may specialize in basic research or may be oriented to applied research. Although the term often i ...

s, by country or region. These organizations undertake research on the sustainable

management Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activitie ...

resources Resource refers to all the materials available in our environment which are technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally sustainable and help us to satisfy our needs and wants. Resources can broadly be classified upon their av ...

, including

water Water (chemical formula ) is an inorganic, transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, which is the main constituent of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of all known living organisms (in which it acts as ...

energy In physics, energy (from Ancient Greek: ἐνέργεια, ''enérgeia'', “activity”) is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of ...

and

biodiversity Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is a measure of variation at the genetic ('' genetic variability''), species ('' species diversity''), and ecosystem ('' ecosystem diversity'') ...

Australia

* Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM) *

Cooperative Research Centre Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs) are an Australian Federal Government program and are key bodies for Australian scientific research. The Cooperative Research Centres Programme was established in 1990 to enhance Australia's industrial, comme ...

* Environment Institute,

University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide (informally Adelaide University) is a public research university located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third-oldest university in Australia. The university's main campus is located on N ...

* Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE),

University of Western Sydney Western Sydney University, formerly the University of Western Sydney, is an Australian multi-campus university in the Greater Western region of Sydney, Australia. The university in its current form was founded in 1989 as a federated network ...

* Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC),

the University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = Br ...

ANSTO

Canada

* McMaster Institute of Environment and Health (MIEH) * University of Toronto School of the Environment

Colombia

International Center for Tropical Agriculture The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (known as CIAT from its Spanish-language name ''Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical)'' is an international research and development organization dedicated to reducing poverty and hunger ...

(CIAT) (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical)

Denmark

Environmental Assessment Institute The Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI) ( da, Institut for Miljøvurdering – IMV) was an independent body under the Danish Ministry of the Environment. It was established in February 2002 by the Liberal/Conservative Danish Government with ...

(EAI) *

Global Biodiversity Information Facility The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services. The data are provided by many institutions from around the ...

(GBIF) (secretariat) * Danish Centre for Environment and Energy (DCE)

Estonia

* Estonian Environmental Research Centre (EERC) ** Estonian Environmental Research Institute (operates within the EERC)

European Union

* European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)

Finland

Finnish Environment Institute The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) ( fi, Suomen ympäristökeskus, sv, Finlands miljöcentral) is a multidisciplinary research and expert institute under the Ministry of the Environment, Finland. SYKE has four office and research facilitie ...

France

Curie Institute (Paris) Centre of protontherapy Institut Curie is one of the leading medical, biological and biophysical research centres in the world. It is a private non-profit foundation operating a research center on biophysics, cell biology and oncology and a ...

Germany

* 0ecologic institute *

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research The work of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ (prior to 28 November 2006 UFZ-Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle GmbH) covers both basic research and applied research. The UFZ was established on 12 December 1991. The Cent ...

Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change The Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) conducts research and fosters dialogue about how the global commons, such as the atmosphere and the oceans, might be used and shared by many yet nevertheless be protected. ...

* Öko-Institut * Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

Ghana

* Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies (IESS)

Greece

Kalamos Island biological field station The Kalamos Island biological field station is a research station located in the island Kalamos, in the Ionian Sea, in Western Greece. It is situated in the core of the inner Ionian marine protected area, site GR22220003 of the Natura 2000 netw ...

Hong Kong SAR

* Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD) at PolyU * Research Centre for Sustainable Hong Kong (CSHK) at City University

India

* Center for Environmental Nuclear Research (CENR) *

Center for Environmental Planning and Technology CEPT University, formerly the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, is an academic institution located near university area in Ahmedabad, India offering undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes in areas of natural and dev ...

(CEPT) *

Indian Agricultural Research Institute The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), commonly known as the Pusa Institute, is India's national institute for agricultural research, education and extension. The name Pusa Institute is derived from the fact that the institute was or ...

(IARI) * National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) *

The Energy and Resources Institute The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is a research institute in New Delhi that specializes in the fields of energy, environment and sustainable development. Established in 1974, it was formerly known as the Tata Energy Research Institute. ...

(TERI) *

Centre for Environment Education The Centre for Environment Education (CEE) in India was established in August 1984 as a Centre of Excellence supported by the Ministry of Environment and Forests. The organisation works towards developing programmes and materials to increase aware ...

(CEE) * Sri Paramakalyani Centre for Environmental Sciences (SPKCES) *

Centre for Science and Environment Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a not-for-profit public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi, India. Established in 1980, CSE works as a think tank on environment-development issues in India, poor planning, ...

(CSE) * Nalanda University Centre - Tribhuvan College * Centre for Climate Change Research, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India (CCCR)

Iran

* International Research Center for Water and Environment (IRCWE) * Zenderud Environmental Research Center (ZERC)

Ireland

*Environmental Research Institute (ERI)

Israel

Arava Institute for Environmental Studies The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (AIES) is an academic studies and research institute located at Kibbutz Ketura on the Israeli side of the Arava Valley. Under the motto that "nature knows no borders", AIES seeks to train future l ...

(AIES) * Israel Institute for Biological Research (IBR)

Italy

* Institute of Ecosystem Study (CNR-ISE)

Japan

* Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) * Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Kazakhstan

* Sustainable Kazakhstan Research Institute (SKRI)

Kenya

* National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)

Netherlands

Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands The Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) is one of the largest energy research institute in Europe and holds a strong international position. With and for the market, ECN develops knowledge and technology that enable a transition to a ...

(ECN) * Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) *

Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research The Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, also known as NIOZ, in Dutch the Nederlands Instituut voor Zeeonderzoek, is the Dutch national oceanographic institute. It is located on the island of Texel, and in Yerseke, in the Netherlands. The ...

(NIOZ)

Nigeria

* Centre for Environmental Research & Training (CERT) * Institute of Environmental Accountants

New Zealand

* Environmental Research Institute (University of Waikato) * Centre for Sustainability *

GNS Science GNS Science ( mi, Te Pū Ao), officially registered as the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited, is a New Zealand Crown Research Institute. It focuses on geology, geophysics (including seismology and volcanology), and nuclear sc ...

(formerly the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences) * NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) * Te Waiora Joint Institute for Freshwater Management (University of Waikato and NIWA) *

Cawthron Institute The Cawthron Institute is New Zealand's largest independent science organisation, specialising in science that supports the environment and development within primary industries. Cawthron has its main facilities in Nelson. It works with regional ...

* ESR (Institute of Environmental Science and Research) * Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research

Norway

Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research The CICERO Center for International Climate Research (abbreviated CICERO; no, CICERO Senter for klimaforskning) is an interdisciplinary research centre for climate research and environmental science/environmental studies in Oslo. CICERO was estab ...

Panama

* Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Philippines

* Environmental and Climate Change Research Institute - ECCRI

Poland

Curie Institute (Warsaw) The Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology ( pl, Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im. Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, until 2020 ''Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology'', pl, Centrum Onkolog ...

Portugal

* Environmental Health Institute (ISAMB)

Romania

* National R&D Institute for Industrial Ecology - ECOIND

Russia

* Mir Environmental Effects Payload (MEEP)

Spain

* Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, ICTA UAB

South Korea

* Korea Environment Institute (KEI) * National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER)

Sweden

Stockholm Environment Institute The Stockholm Environment Institute, or SEI, is a non-profit, independent research and policy institute specialising in sustainable development and environmental issues, with seven affiliate offices around the world. SEI works on climate change ...

Stockholm Resilience Centre The Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), is a research centre on resilience and sustainability science at Stockholm University. It is a joint initiative between Stockholm University and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swe ...

Switzerland

* Center for Development and Environment (CDE) * Centre for International Environmental Studies (CIES)

Taiwan

* Research Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Development * Research Center for Future Earth (NTU RCFE) * Centre for Global Change and Sustainability Science Center (CGCSS)

United Kingdom

Cabot Institute, University of Bristol
* Center for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) *

Chartered Institute of Environmental Health The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) is a professional membership body concerned with environmental health and promoting standards in the training and education of environmental health professionals. History The history of the ...

(CIEH) *

Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) is a subdivision and research centre of the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent, started in 1989 and named in honour of the famous British naturalist Gerald Du ...

European Bioinformatics Institute The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is an Intergovernmental Organization (IGO) which, as part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) family, focuses on research and services in bioinformatics. It is located on the Wel ...

(EBI)
Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment, Imperial College London
* Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP), Imperial College London *

Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences The Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) is a department of Aberystwyth University within its Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, and is located in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales. It has a remit for teaching, research ...

(IBERS), Wales * Earthwatch Europe * Institute of Zoology (IoZ)
International Institute for Environment and Development
(IIED) * National Institute for Environmental eScience (NIEeS) * Oxford Environmental Change Institute * UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (ISR)
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

United States

Botanical Research Institute of Texas The Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) is a botanical research institute located in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It was established in 1987 for the herbarium and botanical library collections of Lloyd H. Shinners from Southern Meth ...

(BRIT) * Center for Environmental Legal Studies (CELS), USA * Center for Global Change & Earth Observations (CGCEO), USA * Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at Berkeley Law (CLEE) *

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies (Cary Institute), formerly known as the Institute of Ecosystem Studies, is an independent, not-for-profit environmental research organization dedicated to the scientific study of the world's ecosystems and the na ...

Conard Environmental Research Area The Henry S. Conard Environmental Research Area (CERA) is a protected environmental research facility at outside Kellogg, Iowa. The 365-acre (148 ha) facility is owned and operated by Grinnell College for class use in the study of ecology and s ...

(CERA), Iowa *

Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research The Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research is designed to be a focal point for interactions between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) and the Arctic research community t ...

, Alaska * Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research (CICOR) *

Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research The Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research (CICAR) was a major collaborative relationship between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) and Earth Institute, ...

(CICAR) *

Cooperative Institute for Climate Science The Cooperative Institute for Climate Science (CICS) fosters research collaborations between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) a ...

(CICS) * Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) *

Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies The Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) is a research institute of the University of Miami located in its Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) in Miami, Florida. CIMAS brings together the Univer ...

(CIMAS) *

Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies The Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies is a research organization created in 1978 by a cooperative agreement between the University of Oklahoma (OU) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). CIMMS p ...

(CIMMS) *

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) is a research institute that is sponsored jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) and the Un ...

(CIRES) *

Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere The Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) is a scientific research institution at Colorado State University (CSU) that operates under a cooperative agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Off ...

(CIRA) *

Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a member-supported unit of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, which studies birds and other wildlife. It is housed in the Imogene Powers Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity in Sapsucker Woods Sanctuar ...

, New York *

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Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, New York *

Earth System Research Laboratory The Earth System Research Laboratories (ESRL) is an alliance of four NOAA scientific labs, all located in the David Skaggs Research Center on the Department of Commerce campus in Boulder, Colorado. Organized under NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and ...

(ESRL) *

Earthwatch Institute Earthwatch Institute is an international environmental charity. Founded as Educational Expeditions International in 1971 by Bob Citron and Clarence Truesdale, Earthwatch supports hundreds of Ph.D. researchers across dozens of countries, conduct ...

, Boston, Massachusetts *

Energy and Environmental Research Center The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) is a research, development, demonstration, and commercialization facility for energy and environment technologies development. The center is a nonprofit division of the University of North Dakota, ...

(EERC), North Dakota *

Environmental and Energy Study Institute The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) is an independent, bi-partisan 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that aims to promote environmentally sustainable societies. Based out of Washington, DC, EESI seeks to be a catalyst moving so ...

(EESI), Washington, DC * Florida Environmental Research Institute (FERI) * Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO) *

Global Energy Network Institute The Global Energy Network Institute (GENI) is a research and education organization founded by Peter Meisen in 1986 and registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in 1991. GENI's focus is on the interconnection of electric power transmissi ...

(GENI), California *

Global Environment Facility The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a multilateral environmental fund that provides grants and blended finance for projects related to biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, persistent organic pollutants (PO ...

(GEF), Washington, DC (secretariat) * Graham Sustainability Institute, University of Michigan * Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES),

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

, Providence, Rhode Island *

Institute on the Environment An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes can ...

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...

(IonE), St. Paul, Minnesota *

Integrated Taxonomic Information System The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) is an American partnership of federal agencies designed to provide consistent and reliable information on the taxonomy of biological species. ITIS was originally formed in 1996 as an interagen ...

(ITIS-North America), Washington, DC (secretariat) *

National Severe Storms Laboratory The National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather research laboratory under the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. It is one of seven NOAA Research Laboratories (RLs). NSSL ...

(NSSL) *

National Snow and Ice Data Center The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is a United States information and referral center in support of polar and cryospheric research. NSIDC archives and distributes digital and analog snow and ice data and also maintains information abo ...

(NSIDC) *

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory The Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) is a federal laboratory in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR). It is one of seven NOAA Research Laboratories (RLs). The PM ...

(PMEL) *

Property and Environment Research Center The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), previously known as the Political Economy Research Center, is a free market environmental think tank based in Bozeman, Montana, United States. Established in 1980, PERC is dedicated to original ...

(PERC), Montana * Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) * Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority (SCCWRP) *

UC Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institu ...

Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC)
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

University of California at Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies The USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies is an environmental research and education facility run by the University of Southern California. It is an organized research unit that encompasses a wide range of faculty and topics across the ...

(WIES) *

Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy The Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a joint initiative between the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Yale Law School. Mission The Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy seeks to advance fresh thinking and a ...

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