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BREEAM
BREEAM is BRE's environmental assessment method, used to assess the environmental performance of both new and existing buildings. It is regarded by the UK's construction and property sectors as the measure of best practice in environmental design and management.
http://www.breeam.org/|

CEEQUAL
CEEQUAL is an awards scheme assessing the environmental quality of civil engineering projects, and is being promoted by ICE, BRE, CIRIA and a group of committed industry organisations. Its objective is to encourage the attainment of environmental excellence in civil engineering projects, and thus to deliver improved environmental performance in project specification, design and construction.
http://www.ceequal.com/|

ComEETA: Environmental Engineering and Technology in Australia
ComEETA - Community for Environmental Engineering and Technology in Australia - is a web community for sharing and discussing information o­n environmental engineering, environmental science and ecology in Australia, but also includes international news and links.
http://www.comeeta.org/|

Demystifying Climate Change
Providing climate change knowledge for sustainable communities professionals, with an overview of key topics and useful links.
http://www.ascskills.org.uk/pages/climate-change|

e-Digest of Environmental Statistics
Summary statistics on the environment in the United Kingdom. Statistics are presented on a number of Topics divided into several Key Facts - key information linking to pages with detailed information and extensive links to other web sites.
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/statistics/index.htm|

Environmental Change Network (ECN)
The Environmental Change Network (ECN) is the UK's long-term environmental monitoring programme. It is designed to collect, store, analyse and interpret long-term data based on a set of key physical, chemical and biological variables which drive and respond to environmental change at a range of terrestrial and freshwater sites across the UK. The site contains a range of data and links.
http://www.ecn.ac.uk/|

Environmental Expert.com
Environmental business information service centre for professionals worldwide, with environmental articles and technical papers, news, events, etc.
http://www.environmental-expert.com/|

European Environment Agency
The EEA aims to support sustainable development and to help achieve significant and measurable improvements in Europe's environment through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy making agents and the public.
http://www.eea.europa.eu/|

Global Environment Facility (GEF)
The Global Environment Facility was established to forge international cooperation and finance actions to address critical threats to the global environment. It brings together 166 member governments, leading development institutions, the scientific community, and a wide spectrum of private sector and non-governmental organizations on behalf of a common global environmental agenda.
http://www.gefweb.org/|

Green Book Live
Green Book Live is a free online database designed to help UK specifiers and end users identify products and services that can help to reduce their impact on the environment.
http://www.greenbooklive.com/|

Terms of Environment
An alphabetical list of terms and acronyms relating to environmental issues and environmental engineering.
http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/|

The Commons
An open world-wide forum concerned with improving our understanding and control of technology as it impacts on people in their daily lives, including construction and transport.
http://www.ecoplan.org/|

UNEP.Net Environment Network
A United Nations site providing authoritative environmental information from a broad range of information and data providers, committed to making their information freely available to the whole spectrum of users of environmental information.
http://www.unep.org/|

Urban Mines
Urban Mines is a UK not-for-profit environmental organisation concerned with the development and application of soundly-based and practical approaches to the waste stream.
http://www.urbanmines.org.uk/|

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