Links to Africa-related climate and environment web sites from Columbia University, USA.

The Communicating the Environment Programmeis a partnership with The World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the Southern African Development Community - Environment and Land Management Sector (SADC-ELMS). Resouces available include a sereis of environmental factsheets and articles, and an environment resource centre with bibliographic and contacts data bases for environmental issues.

An electronic clearing-house for information on past and upcoming international meetings related to environment and development policy. Linkages is provided by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, publishers of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin.

Livelihoods Connect is DFID's learning platform for creating sustainable livelihoods to eliminate poverty. It provides a suite of information sharing, learning and management tools. Livelihoods Connect helps practitioners' to organise and share their experience of implementing sustainable livelihoods approaches so everyone can learn. It also helps to support and enable networks, particularly between practitioners and researchers, around SL themes. Resources available include key documents and training materials, project case studies, a bulletin board, email updates and an enquiry desk.

A framework for international cooperation on the theme of minerals, metals and sustainable development, bringing together governmental and intergovernmental actors, resource companies and other concerned organizations and persons from civil society. The Africa page is presently managed by UNCTAD in Geneva, and provides a directory of news, events, documents and links.

This web-site provides scientific and technical information in French for universities/researchers/students in the North and South. It provides information on higher education, research, media, human and social sciences, applied science, States, international organisations, languages, art, cultures, etc. It also contains a multi-topic database on 11 Francophone African countries, providing for instance information on the forestry development policy in Cameroon and on the ‘Community natural resource management project’ in Senegal.

Categorised links with brief descriptions.

An interdisciplinary network promoting natural, social, and policy science-related issues concerning the Sangha River Region of central Africa where Cameroon, Central African Republic, and the Republic of Congo meet. The resources section contains published literature and project documents, website links for other networks and resources, details about conducting research in the Sangha River Region, and maps.

An overview of sustainable development issues in East Africa with specific articles referring to sustainable development in Congo, Kenya, the Seychelles, Tanzania, and Uganda.

General articles on sustainable development in North Africa with specific articles on Sudan, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia.

An overview of sustainable development issues in Southern Africa with specific articles referring to sustainable development in Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Mozambique.

Sustainable development articles about West Africa, with specific reports addressing the countries of Senegal, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Congo, Niger, and Togo.

This web page offers a comprehensive list of clearinghouses, directories and links to sites related to sustainable development, e.g. United Nations sites, international institutes, NGOS partner organisations, universities, research initiatives and general resources, etc.

Integrates the online information developed by members of the Sustainable Development Communications Network. In addition to over 1,200 documents available in SD Topics, there is a calendar of events, a job bank, the Sustainability Web Ring, a roster of mailing lists (listservs) and news sites dealing with sustainable development.

Aims to facilitate the establishment of a number of Information Communications Technology Centres throughout the SADC sub-region and a series of Information Servers on the Internet structured to provide appropriate support material to existing institutions, lecturers, teachers and businesses. Links to various development, culture and communication projects and organisations.