INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES

CEC, Commission for Environmental Cooperation

Summary of Environmental Law in North America

COML, Census of Marine Life, a global network of researchers in more than 70 nations engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans -- past, present, and future

Convention on Biological Diversity

Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, signed in Ramsar, Iran in 1971

The Ramsar Sites Database Search Ramsar Sites Worldwide
Ramsar Wetland Data Gateway, providing access to spatial and tabular data relevant to Wetlands of International Importance

EUCC, the Coastal and Marine Union

CoastLearn, a website for distance learning on Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in Central and Eastern Europe

Europa, Gateway to the European Union - Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Maritime Affairs

FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization

FIG, the International Federation of Surveyors

Global Aquaculture Alliance, an international, non-profit trade association dedicated to advancing environmentally responsible aquaculture

GOE, the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations which is leading an effort to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)

GoM, Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment

Gulf of Maine Times

ICA, International Cartographic Association

ICES, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

Working Group on Integrated Coastal Zone Management

ICSU, International Council for Science

IGU, International Geographical Union

IHO, International Hydrographic Organization

IISD, International Institute for Sustainable Development

Canada/US IJC, International Joint Commission

IMO, International Maritime Organization

IOI, International Ocean Institute

ISO, International Organization for Standardization

IUCN, World Conservation Union

Commission on Ecosystem Management

Large Marine Ecosystems of the World

LOICZ, Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) is a core project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP).

NAFO, North Atlantic Fisheries Organization

The Ocean Project, an international network of aquariums, zoos, museums, and conservation organizations

RARGOM, Regional Association for Research on the Gulf of Maine

UNEP, United Nations Environment Programme