U.S. Government Sites

United States Agency for International Development. Global Development Alliance
The Global Development Alliance (GDA) approach responds to the changed environment, and it extends USAID's reach and effectiveness in meeting development objectives by combining its strengths with the resources and capabilities of other prominent actors.

United States Department of Agriculture. Sustainable Development
USDA is committed to working toward the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of diverse food, fiber, agriculture, forest, and range systems. USDA will balance goals of improved production and profitability, stewardship of the natural resource base and ecological systems, and enhancement of the vitality of rural communities.

United States Department of Energy. Smart Communities Network
Sustainable development provides a framework under which communities can use resources efficiently, create efficient infrastructures, protect and enhance quality of life, and create new businesses to strengthen their economies.

United States Environmental Protection Agency. Center for Sustainability EPA Region III
The Center's mission is to link our environmental protection efforts with larger economic and social goals.

United States Department of State. Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. Sustainable Development
Sustainable development is supported by effective domestic policies and international partnerships. Self-governing people prepared to participate in an open world marketplace are the very foundation of sustainable development.

United States Department of State. Office of International Information Programs. Sustainable Development Page

Other Sites

Center on Sustainable Growth. The George Washington University Law School
The Center on Sustainable Growth is taking the lead in developing innovative approaches and solutions to these challenges and promoting sustainable growth strategies.

Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. Its goals are to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation and advance human achievement.

Harvard University Center for International Development
Serves as Harvard’s primary center for research on sustainable international development, pushing forward the science of explaining the sources of and remedies for entrenched global poverty and the political and environmental circumstances that surround it.

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
It's a global resource center for environment and agriculture policy.

Inter-American Development Bank. Sustainable Development Department
The Sustainable Development Department contributes to the fulfillment of the IDB's goals by providing technical advisory support to Bank project teams and quality review of projects.

International Institute for Sustainable Development
It meets this challenge by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and indicators, and natural resource management to make development sustainable.

MacArthur Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition.

National Councils for Sustainable Development
Since the Earth 1992 Summitt, more than 70 countries have established some form of a multi-stakeholder participatory body, referred to here as National Councils for Sustainable Development (NCSDs), to promote and implement sustainable development at the national level.

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Sustainable Development
In 1998, OECD Ministers identified sustainable development as a key priority, and agreed to interpret the term ‘sustainable' to include social, environmental and economic considerations. They called upon the OECD for wide-ranging efforts and asked the Organisation to report to them in 2001.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Sustainable Development Glossary

Sustainable Development Communications Network
The Sustainable Development Communications Network (SDCN) is a group of leading civil society organizations seeking to accelerate the implementation of sustainable development through broader, integrated information and communications about what we know.

United Nations Division for Sustainable Development
Provides leadership and an authoritative source of expertise for Governments, the United Nations system, other international organisations and civil society with regard to the promotion of sustainable development and the implementation of Agenda 21.

United Nations Environment Programme. International Environmental Governance
UNEP is developing means of enhancing civil society participation in its programme of activities.

United Nations. Food and Agriculture Organization. Sustainable Development Department
The Sustainable Development Department (SD) serves as a global reference centre for knowledge and advice on biophysical, biological, socio-economic and social dimensions of sustainable development.

United Nations. International Conference on Financing for Development. Monterrey, Mexico, March 2002
The Monterrey Conference marked the first quadripartite exchange of views between governments, civil society, the business community, and the institutional stakeholders on global economic issues.

United Nations. Johannesburg Summit 2002

United States Mission to the European Union. Dossier: Sustainable Development
The United States is committed to support sustainable development working in partnership with civil society and the private sector to mobilize development resources.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
The Foundation's broad purpose is to promote the well-being of mankind by supporting selected activities of a charitable nature, as well as organizations or institutions engaged in such activities, concentrating its resources on activities in conflict resolution, education, environment, family and community development, performing arts, population, and U.S.-Latin American relations

World Bank Development Forum
http://www.worldbank.org/devforum/index.shtml

The Development Forum is an electronic venue for dialogue and knowledge-sharing among members of the development community. Its focal point is an ongoing and expanding series of electronic Development Dialogues on key issues and challenges facing the development community and the world's poor.

World Bank Institute. Sustainable Development Program
The program's activities address the environmental, natural resources management, governance, economic, and social factors that influence sustainable and equitable economic growth, poverty reduction, and protection of global ecosystems.

World Business Council for Sustainable Development
A coalition of 160 international companies united by a shared commitment to sustainable development via the three pillars of economic growth, ecological balance and social progress.

World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world. The Forum provides a collaborative framework for the world's leaders to address global issues, engaging particularly its corporate members in global citizenship.

World Trade Organization. Committee on Trade and Environment
Its mandate is to identify the relationship between trade measures and environmental measures in order to promote sustainable development.

Worldwatch Institute
Worldwatch is a non profit public policy research organization dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental support systems.

April 2003