List of environmental research institutes

This is a list of environmental research institutes, by country or region. These organizations undertake research on the sustainable management of resources, including water, energy and biodiversity.

Australia

• Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM)
• Cooperative Research Centre
• Environment Institute, University of Adelaide
• Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE), University of Western Sydney
• Advanced Water Management Centre(AWMC), the University of Queensland

Canada

• McMaster Institute of Environment and Health (MIEH)

Colombia

• International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical)

Denmark

• Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) (secretariat)
• Danish Centre for Environment and Energy (DCE)

Estonia

• Estonian Environmental Research Centre (EERC) [1]
  • Estonian Environmental Research Institute (operates within the EERC) [2]

European Union

• European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)

Finland

• Finnish Environment Institute [3]

France

• Curie Institute (Paris)

Germany

• Ecologic Institute
• Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
• Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change [4]
• Öko-Institut [5]
• Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy [6]

Ghana

• Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies (IESS)

Greece

• Kalamos Island biological field station

India

• Center for Environmental Nuclear Research (CENR)
• Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT)
• Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI)
• National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)
• The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
• Centre for Environment Education (CEE)
• Sri Paramakalyani Centre for Environmental Sciences (SPKCES)
• Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

Iran

• International Research Center for Water and Environment (IRCWE)

Ireland

• Environmental Research Institute (ERI) [7]

Israel

• Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (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)[8]

Kazakhstan

• Sustainable Kazakhstan Research Institute (SKRI)

Kenya

• National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)

Netherlands

• Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN)
• Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) [9]

Nigeria

• Centre for Environmental Research & Training (CERT)[10]
• Institute of Environmental Accountants[11]

New Zealand

• Environmental Research Institute (University of Waikato)
• Centre for Sustainability[12]
• GNS Science (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
• ESR (Institute of Environmental Science and Research)
• Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research

Norway

• Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research

Panama

• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Philippines

• Environmental and Climate Change Research Institute - ECCRI

Poland

• Curie Institute (Warsaw)

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 [13]

South Korea

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

Sweden

• Stockholm Environment Institute [14]

Switzerland

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

United Kingdom

• Cabot Institute, University of Bristol
• Center for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)
• Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)
• Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology
• European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
• The Glacier Trust
• Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment, Imperial College London
• Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP), Imperial College London
• Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (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 [15]
• UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (ISR)
• Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

United States

• Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT)
• Center for Environmental Legal Studies (CELS), USA [16]
• Center for Global Change & Earth Observations (CGCEO), USA [17]
• Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at Berkeley Law (CLEE) [18]
• Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
• Conard Environmental Research Area (CERA), Iowa
• Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research, Alaska
• Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research (CICOR)
• Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research (CICAR)
• Cooperative Institute for Climate Science (CICS)
• Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR)
• Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS)
• Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS)
• Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
• Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
• Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, New York
• The Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York
• Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)
• Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC), North Dakota
• Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI), Washington DC
• Florida Environmental Research Institute (FERI)
• Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO)
• Global Energy Network Institute (GENI), California
• Global Environment Facility (GEF), Washington DC (secretariat)
• Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), Brown University, Providence, RI
• Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota (IonE), St. Paul, MN
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS-North America), Washington DC (secretariat)
• National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
• National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
• Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)
• Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Montana
• Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
• Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority (SCCWRP)[19]
• UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC)
• UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California at Los Angeles [20]
• USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies (WIES)
• Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy

See also

• List of forest research institutes
• Lists of environmental topics

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