Research Guides: PS 477/577: International Environmental Politics: Government &amp; IGO Sources

Government and Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)

Intergovernmental Organizations

United Nations

United Nations
Official home page (English)
United Nations Digital Library
Includes topical reports and publications.
Directory of United Nations System Organizations
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
UN Official Documents System Search
Online database of UN documents that has full-text, born-digital UN documents published from 1993 onward, including documents of the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and their subsidiaries, as well as administrative issuances and other documents.

See also:

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
International Fisheries Organizations - a list with links, provided by NOAA
International Maritime Organisation "the UN specialised agency responsible for the safety of life at sea, maritime security and the protection of the marine environment through prevention of sea pollution caused by ships."
International Whaling Commission
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction PEDRR
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UN Environment Management Group

European Union

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

The membership of OECD is made up of 34 of the developed countries of the world. However, they also work closely with emerging economies like the People's Republic of China, India and Brazil and developing economies in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

OECD Home Page

OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECDs analysis and data.
UO-owned books only.

⇒ See the Government Information web page for more sources.

Find Government Publications using Google

One way is to use Google Advanced Search

Enter your topic's keywords and then, in the Search by Site or Domain box, type: .gov
- This will get you federal and some state publications
- To search just for a particular state, type: .[two-letter state abbreviation].us - e.g.: .or.us (Oregon) or .tn.us (Tennessee). See all the two-letter state abbreviations here. Searching on the .xx.us domain will also bring up city and county government documents for that state.
For non-US (foreign) countries, you can try limiting to the country domain extension. However, you may also need to find the government domain abbreviation, if there is one. E.g., for Mexico, that is .gob.mx
- Documents will mostly be in the language of that country, and thus must be searched for in that language.

USA.gov

Congress

Congress.gov

ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
Searches all Congressional publications and retrieves full text; includes treaty information -- Senate ratification debates and documents, and presidential messages.

Federal Agencies

⇒ See the Government Information web page for more sources.