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:: Environmental Data Organizations have developped databases for the purpose of assisting the international community, nations and individuals in making sound decisions related to resource management and environmental planning, and where applicable providing data for scientific studies. GEO Data Portal The GEO Data Portal, launched in May 2002, is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Read more... United Nations Statistical Databases The UN Statistics Division compiles statistics from many international sources and produces global updates, including the Statistical Yearbook, World Statistics Pocketbook and yearbooks in specialized fields of statistics. Read more...
United Nations Population division The UN Population Division is responsible for monitoring and appraisal of the broad range of areas in the field of population. The Division distributes electronic population information. Read more...
FAO FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual databases currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics. Read more... AQUASTAT is FAO's global information system of water and agriculture developed by the Land and Water Development Division of FAO. Read more... The FISHERS database contains the number of people engaged in fishing according to the working time devoted to the occupation, as national annual averages, from 1961 onwards. Read more... The FISHSTAT system provides users with access to Fishery Statistics of various sorts. Read more... FORIS contains statistics on forest and forestry issues on a country by country basis including forest cover, plantations, volume and biomass and fires. Read more... The Global Livestock Production and Health Atlas (GLiPHA), is a user-friendly, highly interactive electronic atlas using the Key Indicator Display System (KIDS) developed by FAO. Read more... The PAAT secretariat combines the forces of FAO, WHO, IAEA, and OAU/IBAR to promote integrated trypanosomiasis control through coordinated international action. Read more... TERRASTAT includes land resource potential and constraints statistics at country and regional level. Read more... The WorldBank online Databases The World Bank offers multiple databases online, some free of charge and some on an annual subscription basis. Read more...
UNEP GEMS/WATER Programme The GEMS/Water programme is a multi-faceted water science programme oriented towards understanding freshwater quality issues throughout the world. Read more... OECD Statistics Portal The OECD Statistics Portal provides free access to some OECD databases as well as extracts from all other databases, classified by topic. Read more... WRI EarthTrends - The Environmental Information Portal EarthTrends is an online collection of information regarding the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world. Based on the World Resources Report series, several data tables accessible through the EarthTrends portal. Read more... IUCN The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on taxa that have been globally evaluated using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. This system is designed to determine the relative risk of extinction, and the main purpose of the IUCN Red List is to catalogue and highlight those taxa that are facing a higher risk of global extinction (i.e. those listed as Critically Endangered, Endangered and Vulnerable). Read more... International Energy Agency The Energy Statistics Division (ESD) of the International Energy Agency (IEA) collects, processes and publishes data and information on energy production, trade, stocks, transformation, consumption, prices and taxes as well as on greenhouse gas emissions. Read more... Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center - Trends Online "Trends Online: A Compendium of Data on Global Change" includesfrequently used time series of global-change data. (CO2, 14C, CH4, long-term t°, total cloud amount over China,etc.) . Read more...
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