Slums in Indonesia, WWF-Canon/P Forster Since 1970 the ratio of income of the richest 20 per cent to the poorest 20 per cent has increased from 30:1 to 78:1. A total of 1.3 billion people now live in abject poverty, and 60 per cent of the poorest live in environmentally degraded areas.
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Trade and investment websites

The Centre for International Environmental Law
www.ciel.org

Focus on the Global South
www.focusweb.org

Friends of the Earth
www.foe.org

Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org

International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
www.ictsd.org

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
www.iatp.org

Oxfam-UK
www.oxfam.org.uk

Southcentre
www.southcentre.org

Solagral
www.solagral.org/anglais

Third World Network
www.twnside.org.sg


Intergovernmental organisations working on trade and investment issues

Commission for Environmental Cooperation
www.cec.org

The Free Trade of Americas' Agreement
www.ftaa-alca.org/

International Organisation for Standardisation
www.iso.ch

North American Free Trade Agreement
www.mac.doc.gov/nafta

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
www.oecd.org

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
www.unctad.org

United Nations Environmental Programme
UNEP website

World Trade Organisation
www.wto.org

World Bank
www.worldbank.org


Environmental economics

Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment
www.uea.ac.uk/env/cserge

Beijer International Institute of Environmental Economics
www.beijer.kva.se

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK
www.defra.gov.uk

Economic and Social Research Council, UK
www.esrc.ac.uk

Environmental Data Services (ENDS)
www.ends.co.uk

English Nature
www.english-nature.org.uk

Environmental Economics at the International Institute for Environmental Economics (IIED)
www.poptel.org.uk/iied/enveco

Environment Agency of England and Wales
www.environment-agency.gov.uk

Global Environment Facility
www.gefweb.org

Global Environmental Change (GEC) Programme at Sussex University
www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/gec
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