Strategies to Global Solutions - GLBS 315 - Steindorf

This page links to several other NGO sites with data related to the environment (biodiversity, climate change, pollution, etc.)

"UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre is a world leader in biodiversity knowledge. It works with scientists and policy makers worldwide to place biodiversity at the heart of environment and development decision-making to enable enlightened choices for people and the planet."

Click on a country to see the facts and figures used to determine the UN's Human Development Index (HDI), the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), the Gender Development Index (GDI), the Gender Inequality Index (GII), and the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).

Note: As of Feb. 2021, this page is under revision; however, many features are still available.
"Social indicators covering a wide range of subject-matter fields are compiled by the Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, from many national and international sources." A good place to start is the "countries" tab, then select the country you'd like to explore.

"AQUASTAT is the FAO global information system on water resources and agricultural water management. It collects, analyses and provides free access to over 180 variables and indicators by country from 1960."

The "Data" tab groups data by topic, and the "Selected Indicators" tab groups data by country. There is also a tool for comparing data from different countries.

Data shown is at the global level; click "browse by country or indicator" (above first graph) to see data at the country level

Be sure to visit the country overviews on this site.

Access World Bank's extensive data bank, grouped by country.

Development data from the World Bank and other international agencies. Because there are so many indicators available to choose from, try using the search box to find relevant indicators rather than browsing the whole list.

This gender data portal is a one-stop shop for gender information, catering to a wide range of users and providing data from a variety of sources. A good way to start is by selecting a country from the drop-down list (scroll past the regions to see the list of individual countries).

Data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) related to climate change and the environment.

List of reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Data sets from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.