Advancing Global Environmental Security through
Science · Diplomacy · Law · Finance · Education
The Institute for Environmental Security (IES) is an international non-profit non-governmental organisation established in 2002 in The Hague, in order to increase political attention to environmental security as a means to help safeguard essential conditions for peace and sustainable development.
About IES
The Institute for Environmental Security (IES) is an international non-profit non-governmental organisation established in 2002 in The Hague, with representatives in Brussels, London, Beirut, California, New York, Toronto and Washington, DC.
The “knowledge and action network” was set up to increase political attention to environmental security as a means to help prevent conflict, instability and unrest.
IES Mission
The Institute’s mission is: “To advance global environmental security by promoting the maintenance of the regenerative capacity of life-supporting eco-systems.”
Its multidisciplinary approach integrates the fields of science, diplomacy, law, finance and education. Activities are designed to provide policy-makers with a methodology to tackle environmental security risks in time, in order to safeguard essential conditions for peace and sustainable development
Key objectives of the programmes are:
- Science: Create enhanced decision tools for foreign policy makers, donors and their target groups on regional, national and local levels;
- Diplomacy: Promote effective linkages between environment, security and sustainable development policies.
- Law: Contribute to the development of a more effective system of international law and governance;
- Finance: Introduce new and innovative financial mechanisms for the maintenance of the globe’s life supporting ecosystems; and
- Education: Build the environmental knowledge capital of people and organisations.
Our multidisciplinary work programme integrates the fields of science, diplomacy, law, finance and education. The programme is designed to provide policy-makers with a methodology to tackle environmental security risks in time, in order to safeguard essential conditions for sustainable development
Tel: +31 70 365 2299
Fax: +31 70 365 1948
Brussels Office
PB 121, B-3090 Overijse, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 688 0243
Fax: +32 2 688 2685
IES-North America
1775 E. Palm Canyon Drive, Suite 110, Palm Springs, CA 92264 USA
Tel: +1 760 424 9866
Fax: +1 760 406 5969
Coordinates
Institute for Environmental Security, International Secretariat, Anna Paulownastraat 103, 2518 BC The Hague, The Netherlands
+31 70 365 2299
http://www.envirosecurity.org/