Useful Resources

Inter-Governmental Organizations

Listserves

Subscription information and further descriptions of most of the following trade and sustainable development listservs are available at IISD's SD Gateway site. Select the titles below to be directed to specific information.

Non-Governmental Organizations

  • Centro Latino Americano de Ecologia Social (CLAES).
    El pagina "Integracion y Ecologia" es dedicado a promover los aspectos ambientales en los procesos de integración y el creciente comercio exterior en América Latina.

  • CIESIN (Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network)
    A comprehensive (though dated) overview page, with links to thumbnail primers and/or full text of articles on various trade-environment issues. Also see CIESIN information, for information on CIESIN.

  • The Common Front on the WTO
    A coalition of Canadian public interest and labour organizations. The site has some background on the WTO, and links to materials on the WTO and environment, and the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI).

  • Friends of the Earth
    Links to national organization trade pages, to FoE briefing material and position statements on trade.

  • Harvard Centre for International Development
    CID's global trade negotiations page is concerned more with trade and development than with trade and environment.

  • IATP (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy)
    IATP aims to create environmentally and economically sustainable rural communities and regions through sound agriculture and trade policy. Their trade and sustainable development-related material focuses mainly, but not exclusively, on agricultural issues. They also maintain the excellent WTO watch—an online information centre on the WTO.

  • ICTSD (International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development)
    ICTSD, based in Geneva, is the primary source of news and information on trade and sustainable development. ICTSD produces the excellent weekly Bridges e-mail news summary, as well as a monthly hard copy publication of the same name with more in-depth analysis.

  • The National Wildlife Federation
    A U.S.-based NGO working on trade and environment issues. The site has materials on NAFTA, FTAA and WTO Reform, as well as specific trade and environment issues.

  • Public Citizen
    Public Citizen, a U.S. public interest NGO founded by Ralph Nader, maintains a web site as part of its Global Trade Watch program. The site has links to the program's briefings, news releases and publications, as well as to other sites of interest.

  • The South Centre
    The South Centre is a Geneva-based organization whose members include the major developing countries. It produces excellent analysis on, among other things, the developing country WTO agenda.

  • TED (Trade-Environment Database Project)
    The Trade-Environment Database is a collection of over 200 case studies, based on trade-environment disputes, or trade or environmental agreements. The site has excellent search and sort utilities for the statistical analysis of the database.

  • TWN (Third World Network)
    Third World Network is the activist voice of the South on issues of economics, development, environment and the global system of trade and its implications for the world's poor. Their Trade/WTO site has a wealth of articles on issues of current interest, dealing with such topics as trade, investment, implementation of WTO agreements, new issues and dispute settlement.

  • WWF (World-Wide Fund for Nature)
    WWF International's home page for its work on trade and investment issues has links to an excellent publications list, and is up to date on current trade issues.