The University of Cape Town (UCT) is Africa’s leading research university, consistently in the top 200 in international university rankings. The African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) established in 2011 to support interdisciplinary research and teaching on low carbon and climate resilient development, coordinates climate research at the University.
The sister institutes, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (ISR) and UCL Energy Institute (UCL-Energy), are located in The Bartlett, the internationally renowned Faculty of the Built Environment at UCL. UCL ISR and UCL-Energy have a broad range of expertise in policy, resource efficiency, energy system and sustainability analysis, which have been widely used to support policy making.
Udayana University (UNUD) is the largest and most prestigious universities in Eastern Indonesia, which was established on 29 September 1962. UNUD aims to increase the potential of students, improving the quality of education and research in Indonesia with optimizing the use of facilities, infrastructure, and enhance the development and management of the institution. UNUD has been working with various external parties, both government, state-owned enterprises, private companies, and NGOs domestically and internationally on the basis of mutual interest and benefit.
The Paris School of Economics (EEP-PSE) was born in December 2006 through the union of the economic departments of six leading Parisian research institutions: The CNRS, the EHESS, the Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech, the ENS, the INRA, and the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. At the forefront in many different Economic domains, the School proposes selective teaching programmes from M1 to PhD. PSE also develops strong links between different economic knowledge “users”: academics, institutions and private stakeholders.
The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (IEST) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) is one of the largest interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability oriented research institutes in Spain. It covers wide range of fields, including ecological economics, environmental sociology, earth system sciences, land use planning, life sciences, integrated assessment, environmental design, business environmental management, legal studies, education and communication studies and environmental information technologies.
The Ground Up Association is a Swiss-based non-profit that pursues a triple objective: i) advance and promote research in the field of social and environmental entrepreneurship; ii) contribute to public good projects that have a measurable environmental and/or social impact; iii) advance the study and understanding of the green and social local economy. To reach this goal, The Ground Up Association closely collaborates with The Ground Up Project SA, a Swiss-based enterprise leading data aggregator for small-scale projects under $10M with an environmental impact.
Institute of Environmental Sciences is a research and graduate institute in Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. Bogazici University is one of the leading higher education and research institutions in Turkey. It involves more than 10000 students and 800 academic staff, of which about 420 are full time faculty members with doctorate degrees. The university has achieved considerable success in the European Commission’s FP6 and FP7 programs. The Institute of Environmental Sciences is an interdisciplinary establishment founded in 1982 and offers graduate studies in M.S. and Ph.D.