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.

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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)
• National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark (NERI)

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

France

• Curie Institute (Paris)

Germany

• Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
• Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

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)

Israel

• Israel Institute for Biological Research (IBR)

Italy

• Institute of Ecosystem Study (CNR-ISE)

Japan

• Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR)

Netherlands

• Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN)

New Zealand

• Centre for Sustainability
• GNS Science (formerly the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences)

Norway

• Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research

Poland

• Curie Institute (Warsaw)

Romania

• National R&D Institute for Industrial Ecology - ECOIND

Russia

• Mir Environmental Effects Payload (MEEP)

South Korea

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

Sweden

• Stockholm Environment Institute

Switzerland

• Center for Development and Environment (CDE)

United Kingdom

• Center for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)
• Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)
• Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology
• European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
• Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Wales
• Institute of Zoology (IoZ)
• National Institute for Environmental eScience (NIEeS)
• Oxford Environmental Change Institute
• UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (ISR)

United States

• Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT)
• Center for Environmental Legal Studies (CELS), USA
• 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 Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER)
• 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 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)
• UCLA Institute of the Environment, University of California at Los Angeles
• 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