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 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