# 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
* ANSTO

## Canada

* McMaster Institute of Environment and Health (MIEH)
* University of Toronto School of the Environment

## 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)
** Estonian Environmental Research Institute (operates within the EERC)

## European Union

* European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)

## Finland

* Finnish Environment Institute

## France

* Curie Institute (Paris)

## Germany

* 0ecologic institute
* Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
* Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change
* Öko-Institut
* Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

## Ghana

* Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies (IESS)

## Greece

* Kalamos Island biological field station

## Hong Kong SAR

* Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD) at PolyU
* Research Centre for Sustainable Hong Kong (CSHK) at City University

## India

* Center for Environmental Nuclear Research (CENR)
* Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT)
* CEPT Research And Development Foundation (CRDF)
* 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)
* Nalanda University Centre - Tribhuvan College
* Centre for Climate Change Research, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India (CCCR)

## Iran

* International Research Center for Water and Environment (IRCWE)
* Zenderud Environmental Research Center (ZERC)

## Ireland

* Environmental Research Institute (ERI)

## 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)

## Kazakhstan

* Sustainable Kazakhstan Research Institute (SKRI)

## Kenya

* National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)

## Mexico

* El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR)
* Instituto Nacional de Ecología y Cambio Climático (INECC)

## Netherlands

* Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN)
* Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
* Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)

## Nigeria

* Centre for Environmental Research & Training (CERT)
* Institute of Environmental Accountants

## New Zealand

* Environmental Research Institute (University of Waikato)
* Centre for Sustainability
* 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
* Norwegian Institute for Nature 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)

## Singapore

* NUS Environmental Research Institute

## Spain

* Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, ICTA UAB

## South Korea

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

## Sweden

* Stockholm Environment Institute
* Stockholm Resilience Centre

## Switzerland

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

## Taiwan

* Research Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Development
* Research Center for Future Earth (NTU RCFE)
* Centre for Global Change and Sustainability Science Center (CGCSS)

## 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)
* Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment, Imperial College London
* Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP), Imperial College London
* Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change, University of Bath
* 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
* 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
* Center for Global Change & Earth Observations (CGCEO), USA
* Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at Berkeley Law (CLEE)
* 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 Laboratories (ESRL)
* Earthwatch Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
* 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)
* Graham Sustainability Institute, University of Michigan
* Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
* Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota (IonE), St. Paul, Minnesota
* 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)
* UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC)
* UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California at Los Angeles
* USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies (WIES)
* Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy