Affiliations & Partnerships

The Conference Board’s Townley Global Management Center
The Townley Center provides senior executives with a non-advocacy, cross-industry forum for networking and research on the leading practices in global EHS management as well as approaches to sustainable development.

Corporate EHS Roundtable
The Corporate Environmental, Health & Safety Management Roundtable is a voluntary coalition composed of the senior environmental executives from major corporations who wish to share environmental, health and safety problems and programs and want to learn about leading-edge environmental health and safety management techniques.

Energy Modeling Forum
The Energy Modeling Forum provides a structured forum within which energy experts from government, industry, universities and other research organizations meet to study important energy and environmental issues of common interest.

Environmental Protection Agency’s Natural Gas Star Program
The Natural Gas STAR Program is a flexible, voluntary partnership between EPA and the oil and natural gas industry to identify and promote the implementation of cost-effective technologies and practices to reduce methane emissions.

Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI)
GEMI works to provide strategies for businesses to achieve environmental, health and safety excellence, economic success and corporate citizenship by providing a forum for leading companies to explore ways to improve their own performance, while aiding and inspiring other organizations to do the same.

Global Institute for Energy and Environmental Systems
The Global Institute for Energy and Environmental Systems (GIEES) of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is an emerging multi-disciplinary and cross-college research institute that provides opportunities for faculty, staff and students to collaborate to implement research and allied professional activities on critical energy and environmental issues.

Keystone Center
The Keystone Center is a non-profit organization working to ensure that present and future generations approach environmental and scientific dilemmas and disagreements creatively and proactively. By way of its education and public policy programs, The Keystone Center improves decisions about long-term issues by helping thought-leaders, teachers, students and decision-makers effectively address technically complex and politically uncertain situations.

National Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership
The National Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership is a public-private partnership between the federal government, state governments and private corporations to restore wetlands and other aquatic habitats.

The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy works to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.

NatureServe
NatureServe is a non-profit conservation organization that provides the scientific information and tools needed to help guide effective conservation action. NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are the leading source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems.

ORC Worldwide Occupational Safety and Health Group
ORC Worldwide brings together corporate managers of occupational safety and health to promote effective occupational safety and health programs and practices in business, and to facilitate industry understanding of and input into national occupational safety and health policy and program decision making.

Organization for Tropical Studies
The Organization for Tropical Studies is a non-profit consortium that provides leadership in education, research and the responsible use of natural resources in the tropics by facilitating research and offering graduate and undergraduate level education programs. OTS has grown to include 63 universities and research institutions from the United States, Latin America and Australia.

Resources for the Future
Resources for the Future is a nonprofit and nonpartisan think tank located in Washington, DC that conducts independent research—rooted primarily in economics and other social sciences—on environmental and natural resource issues.