List of supranational environmental agencies
A variety of supranational environmental agencies, commissions, programs and secretariats exist across the world today. Some are global in nature, others regional; they may be multi- or bilateral in character. Some are responsible for broad areas of environmental policy, regulation and implementation; others for very specific issue areas. This article lists notable supranational environmental agencies, by region.
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Global
United Nations
See also: United Nations system
- Food and Agriculture Organization
- Global Environment Facility
- United Nations Environment Programme
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Secretariat
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat
- World Meteorological Organization
Other
- Alliance of Small Island States
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- International Carbon Action Partnership
- International Tropical Timber Organization
- International Union for the Conservation of Nature
- International Whaling Commission
- North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission
- OECD Environment Directorate
- World Nature Organization
Africa
Americas and Caribbean
- Commission for Environmental Cooperation, operating under the North American Free Trade Agreement
Antarctica
Asia
- ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network
- Mekong River Commission
- Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA)
Europe
European Union
Other
- Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM)
- Council of the Baltic Sea States
- European Forest Institute
- International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River
- Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
Oceania
See also
- List of agriculture ministries
- List of environmental ministries
- List of environmental organizations
- List of forestry ministries
- List of intergovernmental organizations
- List of international environmental agreements
- Supranational union
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