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Compiled by Yale & Columbia universities to compare the environmental performance of countries around the world since 2000- (originally called the Environmental Sustainability Index).
Nonprofit network of organisations, formed in 2003, focusing on data relating to human impact on the environment. It's National Footprint Accounts data (1961-) is freely available.
Leading citation database for academic literature. Click on "advanced search" and select the UN Sustainable Development Goals pre-generated query to retrieve references covering the SDG goal you are interested in
Continuously updated repository of syntheses of research evidence about the policy programs in a broad range of areas (e.g., climate action, community and social services, economic development and growth, education, environmental conservation, education, housing and transportation), including the Sustainable Development Goals. Funded by McMaster and Monash universities
Taylor & Francis’ Sustainable Development Goals Online collection is a carefully curated interdisciplinary collection of digital content mapped to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDG Online collection includes more than 12,000 of the most important and relevant book chapters and journal articles, published under the Routledge and CRC Press imprints, in an online library covering all 17 SDGs.
CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system (self-reporting) for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. It is regarded as the gold standard of environmental reporting. As well as freely available research reports, CDP offers the most comprehensive dataset on corporate and city action. Open data sets available for cities, states & regions. Corporate level data is by subscription only. The Library does not subscribe, but CDP company data is available through Bloomberg, available in EBS (Lab S).
See if you can save the planet from the worst effects of climate change. Created by The Financial Times, the game is based on published scientific research by the IEA. The objective is limit global warming to 1.5C by cutting energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050
Published annually since 2010 to document the difference between where greenhouse emissions are predicted to be in 2030 and where they should be to avert the worst impacts of climate change. Other regular UNEP publications, such as the Adaptation Gap, can be found on the UNEP publications webpage
https://www.unep.org/resources?f%5B0%5D=category%3A452&f%5B1%5D=topic%3A20
UNEP experts also contribute to the Production Gap reports - https://productiongap.org/
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the body tasked with tackling the global challenge of climate change. Includes news & documentation from COP26 and other climate summits
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.
Created in 1948, membership drawn from governments & civil society organisations. IUCN is the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.
Millions of pages of digitised documents from the vaults of the world's largest multinational chemical firms, specifically covering industrial poisons: benzene, PCBs, polyvinyl chloride, silica, asbestos, lead
Free online journal edited from the Sociology Dept., University of Warwick, looking at all things toxic
Consumption. Food. Consumer Industries
If you have interests in contemporary consumer industries and consumer/lifestyle trends then you should take a look at the databases below. Mintel focuses mostly on the UK, whilst Passport & Statista both have international coverage:
Mintel Academic gives access to consumer and market intelligence reports and data. The library subscribes to the following sections: Mintel Trends ; Mintel Market Sizes ; UK Food Service ; UK Leisure ; UK Travel ; UK Lifestyles ; UK Media ; UK Retail Overview. Mintel Academic also provides access to the Market Sizes data.
Passport is a high-quality database from Euromonitor, that provides analysis and statistics across a wide range of countries, covering consumers and consumer industries
Statista is an aggregator of statistical data covering most topics, including consumers & consumer industries. For cross-national comparison, see its Global Consumer Survey
