GRID-Arendal
UNEP/GRID-Arendal has become a major "collector" of climate change related information. Its maps and graphics library contains more than hundred different illustrations explaining the science behind global warming and climate change, as well as current and future impacts on regional and global scales.

UNEP Risø Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development
The UNEP Risø Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development supports UNEP in its aim to incorporate environmental aspects into energy planning and policy worldwide, with a special emphasis on assisting developing countries.


World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC)
The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre was established in 2000 as the world biodiversity information and assessment centre of UNEP. Today, UNEP-WCMC aims to put authoritative knowledge on biodiversity and climate change at the heart of decision-making, enabling better links between the climate and biodiversity policy worlds.

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
UNEP’s collaboration with FAO to help agricultural communities plan for changing conditions involves as well the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), and the World Agroforestry Centres (ICRAF).

Global Environment Facility (GEF)
The Global Environment Facility is a catalyst and a facilitator of global environment sustainability with the core mandate of providing new and additional funding for agreed incremental costs of projects and programs in developing countries that produce global environmental benefits.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. For its work over the last 20 years, the IPCC was the joint winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Ozone Secretariat
The Ozone Secretariat is the Secretariat for the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. Since its entry into force in 1987, the Protocol has significantly contributed to global efforts to address climate change.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
UNDP focuses on building the capacity of developing countries to manage environmental change - capacity that is crucial to ensuring economic and social stability as well as sustained progress in eradicating poverty.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its 1997 Kyoto Protocol are the key processes for negotiating international climate policies and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and UNEP jointly initiated the National Cleaner Production Centres programme in 1994. Today, the Cleaner Production Programme is present in 31 countries, training and advising their clients on how to find the best solutions for specific problems.

United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
The UNITAR Climate Change Programme assists in enhancing or creating regional pools of expertise in the developing world, as well as strengthening the infrastructure for delivering capacity building activities and developing their human resources.

World Bank
The World Bank's environment strategy closes the gap between development and the environment by placing developing country priorities with three objectives:Improving the quality of life,Improving the quality of growth and Protecting the quality of the regional/global commons such as climate change, forests, water resources, biodiversity.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
WMO is the UN system's authoritative voice on the state and behaviour of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans, the climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.

World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO)
UNWTO is responsible for ensuring the sustainable development and management of tourism so that its benefits can be enjoyed for generations to come. UNEP and UNWTO are collaborating on reducing the carbon footprint of the tourism sector which accounts for around 5 per cent of CO2 emissions globally.