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Contents below:

     · Guides & directories

       ⇒ United Nations (UN)

         ⇒ International financial institutions (IFIs)

           ⇒ Government-nongovernment hybrid organizations, partnerships & networks

             · International organizations, initiatives, negotiating blocks & groupings outside the UN system

Also see for regional organizations:

     · World, polar & ocean geography

       · Eastern Hemisphere

         · Western Hemisphere  

Guides & directories

A guide to committees, groups, and clubs @ IMF

List of country groupings @ Wikipedia

Party groupings (negotiating groups) @ UNFCCC

Wikipedia

     · List of intergovernmental organizations

     · List of intergovernmental environmental organizations

     · List of supranational environmental agencies

International organizations, initiatives, negotiating blocks & groupings outside the UN system

African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change (AGN)

Association of Independent Latin American and Caribbean States (AILAC)

Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)

Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA)

Brazil, South Africa, India, and China (BASIC)

     · Wikipedia entry

Central American Integration System (SICA)

Central Asia, Caucasus, Albania, and Moldova (CACAM)

Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF)

     · "an international partnership of countries highly vulnerable to a warming planet. The Forum serves

     as a South-South cooperation platform for participating governments to act together to deal with

     global climate change."

     · Climate Vulnerability Monitor

Coalition for High Ambition Multilevel Partnerships (CHAMP)

Coalition of Rainforest Nations

Environmental Integrity Group

G7

     G7 Alliance on Nature Positive Economies

G20

     International Expert Group

     G20 Task Force on a Global Mobilization against Climate Change

G77

Group of Like-Minded Megadiverse Countries (LMMC)

Group of Mountain Landlocked Developing Countries

High Ambition Coalition

High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People

     · "...an intergovernmental group of more than 45 countries co-chaired by Costa Rica and France

          and by the United Kingdom as Ocean co-chair, championing a global deal for nature and people

          that can halt the accelerating loss of species, and protect vital ecosystems that are the source of

          our economic security."

Independent Assoiciation of Latin America and the Caribbean (AILAC)

     · "...established as a formal negotiating group under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

       in December 2012, during the Conference of the Parties in Doha, Qatar.”

International Energy Agency (IEA)

International Indigenous Peoples' Forum on Climate Change

Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDCs)

     · Wikipedia entry

Low Emission Development Strategies Global Partnership (LEDS GP)

Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS)

Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD)

     Agriculture and fisheries

     Climate change

     Environment

Paris negotiating groups @ CarbonBrief

Umbrella Group

World Coalition for Peace With Nature

What is an IO/IGO?

"An IGO is an organization composed primarily of sovereign states, or of other intergovernmental organizations. IGOs are established by treaty or other agreement that acts as a charter creating the group. Examples include the United Nations, the World Bank, or the European Union."*

How is an IO/IGO created?

"The term intergovernmental organization (IGO) refers to an entity created by treaty, involving two or more nations, to work in good faith, on issues of common interest."*

Other terms

International organizations (IOs) can include "international groups," groupings and negotiating blocks.