Environmental organization

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An environmental organization is an organization that seeks to protect, analyze or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation.

In this sense the environment may refer to the biophysical environment, the natural environment or the built environment. The organization may be a charity, a trust, a non-governmental organization or a government organization. Environmental organizations can be global, national, regional or local.

[edit] List of environmental organizations

The most important global environmental organizations are the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

[edit] See also

• Conservation movement
• Environmental agreements
• Environmentalism
• Environmental movement
• List of environmental organizations
• Green politics
• List of environmental issues